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Hoffert, Barbara – Library Journal, 2011
Respondents to "Library Journal's" ("LJ") annual book buying survey of public libraries nationwide reported that adult book budgets were down eight percent overall, the largest plunge recorded since the survey began in 1998. What's more, for the first time ever, cuts were reported for every region of the country and every size of population…
Descriptors: Public Libraries, Library Services, Library Administration, Library Materials
Smith, Kerry; Middleton, Mike – Australian Academic & Research Libraries, 2009
The paper describes the processes and outcomes of the ranking of LIS journal titles by Australia's LIS researchers during 2007-8, first through the Australian federal government's Research Quality Framework (RQF) process, and then by its replacement, the Excellence in Research for Australia (ERA) initiative. The requirement to rank the journals'…
Descriptors: Periodicals, Researchers, Library Science, Information Science
McDowell, Kate – Library Quarterly, 2009
Women who promoted library services to children in the United States in the late nineteenth century introduced the systematic use of survey research on library practice to the field of professional librarianship. They created a series of qualitative survey-based reports, the "Reading of the Young" reports, which were presented at ALA conferences…
Descriptors: Females, Library Science, Library Services, Library Research
Feather, John – Journal of Librarianship and Information Science, 2009
This article discusses the development of academic research in the LIS domain and the purpose of LIS research. It is argued that there are several constituent parts of the research tradition, both theoretical and empirical, and that this has created tensions and misunderstandings between researchers and practitioners. Against this background, the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Library Science, Library Research, Theory Practice Relationship
Young, Mark, Comp.; Kyrillidou, Martha, Comp. – Association of Research Libraries, 2007
Presented herein are data that describe collections, expenditures, personnel, and services in 65 medical libraries at Association of Research Libraries (ARL) member institutions throughout North America. In 2005-06, the reporting health sciences libraries held a median of 245,212 volumes, spent a total of $239,944,918, and employed 2,524 FTE…
Descriptors: Expenditures, Medical Libraries, Research Libraries, Resource Allocation
Barrett, G. Jaia, Ed. – Association of Research Libraries, 2006
ARL is the bimonthly report on research library issues and actions from ARL (Association of Research Libraries), CNI (Coalition of Networked Information), and SPARC (Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition). ARL reports on current issues of interest to academic and research library administrators, staff, and users; higher education…
Descriptors: Librarians, Research Libraries, Academic Libraries, Labor Force
Ward, David; Phetteplace, Eric – Public Services Quarterly, 2012
The growth in number and kind of online reference services has resulted in both new users consulting library research services as well as new patterns of service use. Staffing in-person and virtual reference services desks adequately requires a systematic analysis of patterns of use across service points in order to successfully meet fluctuating…
Descriptors: Library Services, Reference Services, Library Research, Library Administration
Graham, Peter S. – 1982
Designed to assist library managers in conducting effective cost studies, this document provides a summary of the data for the 81 member libraries which responded to a survey of technical services cost studies conducted by the Association of Research Libraries (ARL) in April 1982, and seven reports of such studies. These reports, which range from…
Descriptors: Cost Effectiveness, Costs, Library Expenditures, Library Research
Hoadley, Irene B. – 1986
This kit is based on a review of the organization charts of 86 member libraries of the Association of Research Libraries (ARL) gathered in spring 1986, compared with two earlier sets of charts published in 1973 and 1977, and contains charts of 61 of the libraries. Nearly one-fourth of the charts studied are under revision, indicating that changes…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Administrative Organization, Charts, Higher Education
Association of Research Libraries, Washington, DC. Office of Management Studies. – 1974
This collection of tenure policies in academic and research libraries contains: "Statement of Principles on Academic Freedom and Tenure Adopted by the American Association of University Professors", including the "Model Statement of Criteria and Procedures for Appointment, Promotion in Academic Rank, and Tenure for College and University…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Higher Education, Library Personnel, Library Research
Association of Research Libraries, Washington, DC. Office of Management Studies. – 1978
In response to Association of Research Libraries (ARL) members' increased interest in the enhancement of manpower resources by greater utilization of paraprofessionals, ARL conducted a survey investigating various aspects of paraprofessional employment in the academic library. For the purposes of the survey, paraprofessional positions were defined…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Higher Education, Library Administration, Library Personnel
Kennedy, Gail A.; Lach, Michael J., Jr. – 1986
The process of identifying items in a library's collection by assigning to each a unique machine readable code has been generally referred to as barcoding. Barcoding is often one of the first critical projects a library will embark upon in the process of automation. This Systems and Procedures Exchange Center (SPEC) kit addresses many of the major…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Higher Education, Library Automation, Library Collections
Stubbs, K. L. – 1984
Based on statistical data submitted by almost 3,000 academic libraries as part of the 1978-1979 Higher Education General Information Survey (HEGIS), this report develops a composite profile of an academic research library. Use of cluster analysis of library characteristics to find institutions that were quantitatively similar to one another…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Cluster Analysis, Data Analysis, Factor Analysis
Baatz, Wilmer H. – 1978
The objective of this study was to determine how large research libraries perform the function of collection development. The paper describes collection development theory within the formal organizational structure of the library, identifies the actual decision points involved in selection of materials, and examines the staff and facilities…
Descriptors: College Libraries, Library Administration, Library Automation, Library Collections

Wortzel, Murray; Brody, Laura Delaney – Child Welfare, 1995
Lists and discusses sources of child welfare materials for the historical researcher: general histories, reference guides, catalogs, bibliographies, directories, abstracts, indexes, and electronic services. Also listed are guides to archives containing--among other items--manuscripts, documents, social agency records, and oral history transcripts.…
Descriptors: Archives, Child Welfare, Information Sources, Libraries