The following article is a modest attempt to discuss the need of the collection development, various sources of collection building in the Libraries keeping in view the shrinking budget in the age of ICT. The paper also discusses various tools which are instrumental in providing balanced and appropriate collections in the Libraries.
Topics: Collection Development, Acquisition of Documents, Library Collections
It is widely acknowledged that libraries play a positive and important role in the lives of prisoners, just as they do with other people. They do not only provide resources to support various educational, recreational and welfare programs, but they also create opportunities for prisoners to acquire new skills, skills that they may need once they leave prison. In addition, prison libraries also help address various psychological issues, attitude problems, as well as other difficulties in coping...
Topics: Youth engagement, Library collections, Prison library, Human rights
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Topics: California Indian Library Collections, Indians of North America
This study has been undertaken to determine the library needs of Auburn, Massachusetts, and to analyze the existing library services. The community analysis includes use of the 1970 U.S. Census, interviews and other available data and the survey of the library includes samples of the circulation, registration, and shelf list, and analysis of the budget and past annual reports. Because the data gathering and analysis were carried out according to a prescribed pattern, the resulting information...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Community Study, Library Collections, Library Services, Public Libraries
The two subjects of this talk are: (1) book collecting as an avocation and (2) the author's own private collection of material on Sir Francis Drake. (NH)
Topics: ERIC Archive, Books, Lecture Method, Library Collections, Kraus, H. P.
This is the 1977 listing of subscription, government, and gift periodicals, newspapers, and services which are currently received by the State Library of Ohio. Entries are arranged alphabetically by title, followed by a location symbol to designate where a particular title is housed in the library--Reference, Genealogy, Tower Library, and Documents; all titles appearing without a location symbol are housed in the stacks area. Holdings information and beginning subscription dates of the...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Government Publications, Library Collections, Newspapers, Periodicals, State Libraries
The cost value of the library collection at the Del Mar College Library at Corpus Christi, Texas was assessed for insurance purposes. Included are cost-per-item and processing cost figures and estimated replacement cost of the card catalog. (WH)
Topics: ERIC Archive, Catalogs, Costs, Library Collections, Library Materials, Library Technical Processes
The bibliographic guide attempts to compile the principal resources (i.e., all books and periodicals) in adult and continuing education and related areas held by the University of Michigan Library system. It is divided into the following subject categories: general works; institutional forms; methodology, teaching, learning, and curriculum; administration and program planning; gerontology; remedial; community development; media; international and comparative; trends and movements; periodicals...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Adult Education, Bibliographies, Library Collections, Library Guides, Resource...
Included in this bibliography are symphonic works, opera, chamber music and solo works. It is intended to be a selected list of classical recorded music for a basic library collection. The emphasis is on well-known music that library patrons are likely to request, or on less familiar music that music lovers should find enjoyable. The bibliography is arranged alphabetically by composer with one particular recording recommended for each entry. (SJ)
Topics: ERIC Archive, Audiodisc Recordings, Bibliographies, Library Collections, Van De Voorde, Ronald A.
A guide to the Logan Pearsall Smith Collection at Trinity University Elizabeth Coates Maddux Library in San Antonio, Texas provides a descriptive overview of the collected works of this renowned epigrammatist, critic, essayist, biographer, and authority on the English language. The guide includes a brief biography of Smith (1865-1946), detailed descriptions of his publications and papers at Trinity, two appendices (a list of his principal works, and Smith material in the United States), and an...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Biographies, Guides, Letters (Correspondence), Library Catalogs, Library Collections,...
A subject heading keyword-in-context (KWIK) list for the vertical files at the University of California, Davis, is presented. It is noted that the KWIK list was prepared to assist library users in locating more subject headings for available materials in the various pamphlet collections and that the list is computerized to enable frequent updating. Also presented are descriptive summaries of the five clipping and pamphlet collections at the University of California, Davis, including the...
Topics: ERIC Archive, College Libraries, Library Collections, Pamphlets, Permuted Indexes, Subject Index...
This document consists of the call numbers and holdings of journals listed in the "Applied Science and Technology Index" (ASTI) located in the libraries of North Carolina State University (NCSU). In addition to helping ASTI users at NCSU, it may also be used for regional and national purposes. As a regional resource it may help libraries with smaller technology collections who use ASTI as a resource for technical information. On a national as well as a regional level, the bibliography...
Topics: ERIC Archive, College Science, Higher Education, Library Collections, Periodicals, Scholarly...
Standard checklists, guides to the literature, holdings of libraries known for excellence, lists of journals covered in indexing and abstracting services, checklist of recommended books and journals published by professional societies, references cited in terminal bibliographies, and lists of professional society publications were used to check the Library's science and technology holdings. Each subject area of the collection is discussed individually with specific recommendations listed....
Topics: ERIC Archive, Library Collections, Library Surveys, Sciences, Technology, Burns, Robert W., Jr.
A statement of policy was developed by the Intellectual Freedom Committee of the Missouri Library Association as a means of carrying out its assigned responsibility "to make available such assistance and direction as deemed necessary and proper to any citizen of Missouri involved in a censorship incident." The Association is directly concerned with the freedom of all members of a democratic society to read what they will in the course of making the social, educational, and political...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Books, Censorship, Conformity, Libraries, Library Associations, Library Collections,...
This procedural manual is designed to be used in bindery sections in public, university and special libraries. It briefly discusses these general matters: administrative control; selection of a binder; when and what to bind; conventional binding; routines; missing issues; schedule for shipments; temporary binding; rare books, maps and newspapers; advertisements, thickness of bound volumes; and supplements. The following topics are covered in the working manual: sources of material for binding,...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Books, Guides, Library Collections, Maintenance, Periodicals, Repair, Lakhanpal, S. K.
The theme for the celebration of the Library of Congress treasures, "The World Encompassed," is suggested by the title of a nephew's account of Sir Francis Drake's circumnavigation of the earth. This account is part of the Sir Francis Drake collection donated by patrons to the library. In April 1581, Drake was knighted by Queen Elizabeth I for what was then the most profitable enterprise in the history of seafaring. Drake's career can remind those accustomed to television images that...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Books, European History, Library Collections, Library Role, National Libraries,...
In a panel presentation, Americana, Colliers, Britannica, and World Book encyclopedias were compared. One member described her daughter's experiences in working on Britannica II. The organization of Britannica into a Propaedia, Micropaedia, and a Macropaedia was compared with the alphabetical arrangement of the others. The complex new form was expected to be confusing for most users. Other members of the panel compared the coverage of specific subjects in the four encyclopedias. They concluded...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Book Reviews, Comparative Analysis, Encyclopedias, Libraries, Library Collections,...
This paper provides an overview of the Elazar classification system for libraries of Judaica. The authors of the scheme contend that there was and is a need for a system for libraries of Judaica to classify and arrange their collections according to Jewish concepts based upon Jewish thought and terminology. Topics covered include: (1) initial development and the first edition; (2) revision and the second edition; (3) revision and the third edition; (4) spelling authority; (5) the problem of...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Cataloging, Classification, Judaism, Library Collections, Religious Libraries,...
This second edition of Black Periodicals and Newspapers is a guide to the holdings and locations of more than 600 periodical and newspaper titles relating to black Americans which were received before February 1979 in the libraries of the University of Wisconsin-Madison and in the Library of the State Historical Society of Wisconsin. The guide includes literary, political, and historical journals, as well as general newspapers and feature magazines of the black community. A comparison is made...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Black Literature, Blacks, Indexes, Library Collections, Newspapers, Periodicals,...
The optimal storage of books by size in libraries is considered in this paper. It is shown that for a given collection of books of various sizes, the optimum number of shelf heights to use can be determined by finding the shortest path in an equivalent network. Applications of this model to inventory control, assortment and packaging problems are also given. An extension of the basic model which minimizes the wasted shelf space in libraries is also discussed (Author)
Topics: ERIC Archive, Books, Libraries, Library Collections, Library Facilities, Models, Storage,...
The Texas State Publications Clearinghouse of the Texas State Library has prepared this list of materials pertaining to legislative and executive branch publications on the state and local level. Judicial branch publications are judged innappropriate as they are best left in the domain of the law library. The specific topics are handbooks/directories, laws/legal, legislative, constitutional, regional/county/local, state government financial and statistical information, bibliographies, general...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Annotated Bibliographies, Government Publications, Law Libraries, Library...
This classification scheme, based on the 'facet formula' theory of Ranganathan, is designed primarily for the library of the National Institute of Adult Education in London, England. Kinds of persons being educated (educands), methods and problems of education, specific countries, specific organizations, and forms in which the information is presented comprise the characteristics by which the adult education literature can be divided. Guidelines are furnished on cross-references, use of basic...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Adult Education, Classification, Guides, Library Collections, Greaves, Monica A.,...
This annotated bibliography on prison library literature is the result of research for a master's degree. The only prior source for this work was "Prison Libraries--Bibliography" by David Gillespie, and from that and journal sources the bibliography was compiled. The works cited are divided into three categories: California prison libraries (15 works), prison law libraries (24 works), and prison libraries, general (113 works). A short paragraph describes each entry in the...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Annotated Bibliographies, Correctional Education, Institutional Libraries, Library...
The publication includes papers from the opening session, eighteen working papers on library cataloging, eighteen papers presented at group meetings and plenary sessions, and papers from the concluding session. The inaugural address "Cataloging Enters the Spiral of Scientific Method" was presented by S.R. Ranganathan. The working paper topics covered terminology, authors, recall, names of governments, institutions, and conferences, titles, publisher series, periodical titles and...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Cataloging, Classification, Conference Reports, Foreign Countries, Libraries, Library...
Highlights in Library services, collections, and operations, May 2020–April 2021
Topics: Lake Forest Library, library, circulation, library services, library circulation, library...
This paper traces the development of classification at the Library of Congress in terms of its broader context and by accounting for changes in the present system since its initial period of creation between 1898 and 1910 and the present. Topics covered include: (1) Early Growth of the Collections; (2) Subject Access During the Early Years; (3) A. R. Spofford and the Growth of the Library of Congress; (4) Spofford and Subject Access; (5) From Spofford to John Russell Young; (6) Trends in...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Classification, History, Indexing, Library Catalogs, Library Collections, Library of...
When professional movers are hired to move a library collection, drawing up written specifications becomes the most important part of the planning process. Specifications explain exactly what needs to be done, form the basis for a legal contract, and provide the basis for determining the cost of the job. Precision is an important component of writing specifications, and existing specifications may serve as helpful examples. Additional considerations include: (1) beginning the specifications...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Guidelines, Legal Responsibility, Library Administration, Library Collections,...
A textbook classification scheme that allows the expression of curricular relationships is revised to include new curriculum materials for math, science, special education, career education, foreign languages, and social studies. Designed for teacher training institutions, curriculum laboratories, resource centers, and adjunct collections in school libraries, this scheme can be used separately or to supplement standard classification systems, which, while they have provision for textbooks, do...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Classification, Curriculum, Educational Facilities, Instructional Materials, Library...
Research libraries are urged to take part in a National Preservation Program for their most important library materials. Techniques of conservation of past and current materials, including microfilming and storage at low temperatures, are discussed, while a national preservation center which would store materials is also proposed. Development of this project would include (1) surveys of research libraries in order to determine those materials that warranted preservation, (2) standards for...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Archives, Library Collections, Library Materials, Library Services,...
The paper tries to clarify the position special governmental libraries hold in the system of libraries of today by investigating only one specific type of library mainly from a formal and historical point of view. Central statistical libraries in Europe were first regarded as administrative and archival libraries. Their early holdings of foreign publications in applied statistics, resulting from direct international exchange agreements and exceeding in percentage quite often the stocks of...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Archives, Government Libraries, Library Collections, National Libraries, Special...
Written standards for the structure and government of library service, the program of public library services, selection and maintenance of library collections, personnel, and physical facilities provide guidelines for improved services by small public libraries in Nebraska. An interpretation and application of these standards assists in their utilization. (AB)
Topics: ERIC Archive, Guidelines, Library Collections, Library Facilities, Library Services, Library...
East St. Louis is a good example of a community that was not providing library service to all of its citizens. The public library was most anxious to close this service gap. To do so, however, required a two phased approach. What was first needed was a basic survey of the East St. Louis Public Library, its collection, staff and services. Based on that information, recommendations for expanding the services to the unserved in East St. Louis could then be formulated. This is an accurate report of...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Librarians, Library Collections, Library Services, Public Libraries, Surveys, Jordan,...
The resources of thousands of books and pamphlets are housed in countless libraries throughout the United States; librarians codify, classify, and circulate these materials in ways that are often mysterious to library users. There are many ways to reduce this element of mystery: effective service at the reference desk; prominent signs and directions; printed materials to assist the user in finding what he wants as effortlessly as possible. It is to this last category that these guidelines are...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Guidelines, Library Collections, Library Guides, Library Instruction, Library...
Highlights in Library services, collections, and operations, May 2019–April 2020
Topics: Lake Forest Library, library, circulation, library services, library circulation, library...
The subdiscipline of women's history began in the 1960s. Both the feminist movement and the new study of social history contributed to the development of women's history. Because of these connections, women's history generally expounds a certain political viewpoint and focuses on a specific type of history. The women's history collection in the library of the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) is small and concentrates on works that are relevant to NARA's record holdings. This...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Annotated Bibliographies, History, Library Collections, Library Materials, Womens...
More than 600 documents published between 1893 and 1970 are cited in this bibliography on American Indians. The bibliography contains that portion of the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) library collection that is written about, for, and by American Indians. Many of the citations include annotations. All publications listed are available for circulation to BIA employees, Indians, and those interested in Indians and Indian affairs. Supplements to this bibliography are planned as the collection...
Topics: ERIC Archive, American Indian Culture, American Indians, Annotated Bibliographies, Library...
This library handbook was designed to aid the student of sociology. It lists reference materials basic to general research and gives their location in the Fogler Library at the University of Maine. Materials are listed in six categories: (1) guides to the literature; (2) general, including dictionaries and encyclopedias; (3) biographical directories; (4) statistics; (5) general and specialized bibliographies; and (6) abstracts and indexes. Some entries are annotated. (Author/AWP)
Topics: ERIC Archive, Bibliographies, College Libraries, Library Collections, Library Guides, Library...
Intended to aid librarians who are building collections of information about human sexuality, this selected list of references is introduced by an essay on the myths of sexual knowledge, the role of parents, the public's attitudes toward sex education, and the role of libraries. The list itself encompasses these areas: (1) resources for libraries; (2) books and pamphlets for parents; (3) publications for children, teenagers, and young adults; (4) publications for school teachers,...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Bibliographies, Information Sources, Librarians, Libraries, Library Collections,...
The physical arrangement of reading, storage, and service areas for the microform department of the Joseph Regenstein Library can serve as a case study for the estimation of space requirements for microform storage and retrieval. The library uses mechanical readers at carrel stations, each utilizing 31.5 square feet of floor space. The best methods for storing microforms employ specially constructed metal cabinets or shelves. Direct public access to microfiche collections is impractical, but in...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Library Collections, Library Equipment, Library Facilities, Microfiche, Microfilm,...
The Federal Library Committee through the Task Force on Procurement Procedures in Federal Libraries is examining all problems and is recommending policies, procedures, and practices which will maximize the efficient procurement of library materials. It is suggested that the vehicle for this investigation be the appropriate Commission on Government Procurement work group. The required action includes: (1) Identification of improvements in procurement of library materials possible under existing...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Government Libraries, Library Acquisition, Library Collections, Library Expenditures,...
These two advisory lists include information on 16mm films appropriate for the K-12 instructional program. In both bibliographies films are listed in the following categories: communication skills; guidance; health, physical education, safety, and sports; science; and social studies. The list for the 1982-1983 school year also includes categories for arts education, media education, and North Carolina. The majority of the films are for direct use with the students, but films on teaching...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Annotated Bibliographies, Elementary Secondary Education, Filmographies,...
Step-by-step instructions for locating material in the Educational Resources Information Center (ERIC) database are provided. Following an introduction, information is presented in three main sections--manual searching, computer searching, and using search results. Subdivisions under manual searching describe who can or should do a manual search of ERIC, how to locate ERIC microfiche collections, procedures for conducting a manual search--including how to use and understand notations in the...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Computers, Databases, Educational Resources, Information Retrieval, Library...
This library handbook was designed to aid the student of psychology. It lists reference materials basic to general research and gives their location in the Fogler Library at the University of Maine. Materials are listed in nine categories: (1) guides to the literature; (2) dictionaries, encyclopedias, and handbooks; (3) tests and measurements; (4) periodicals; (5) yearbooks; (6) directories; (7) style manuals; (8) bibliographies; and (9) indexes and abstracts. Some entries are annotated....
Topics: ERIC Archive, Bibliographies, College Libraries, Library Collections, Library Guides, Library...
There is a great need for very easy reading materials, equivalent in reading level to first and second grades but adult in subject matter and illustration for adult basic education students. This annotated bibliography is designed to be an easy guide to suitable materials for adult educators and librarians for use by students in adult basic education. The entries are grouped under fiction and nonfiction titles. The full bibliographic citation, reading level, annotation and evaluation of the...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Adult Basic Education, Annotated Bibliographies, Books, Library Collections, Library...
This report has been prepared in order to assist those interested in learning more about the Texas State Publications Clearinghouse, to allow the staff to review the program's strengths and weaknesses, and to reassess goals and objectives for the future. In order to facilitate a clear understanding of how the program evolved, Section One presents the historical development of both the nature and scope of the State Library's Texas documents activities, culminating with the creation of the Texas...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Depository Libraries, Government Publications, Indexing, Library Collections,...
This finding aid is a selected list of supernatural-related narratives recorded in the United States and held in the Archive of Folk Culture of the Library of Congress. Brief descriptions of the recordings are accompanied by identification numbers. Information about listening to or ordering any of the listed recordings is available from the Archive of Folk Culture. (AEF)
Topics: ERIC Archive, Archives, Audiotape Recordings, Folk Culture, Information Sources, Library...
LISTINGS ARE GIVEN IN ELEVEN CATEGORIES. THEY ARE--(1) GENERAL, (2) ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS, (3) HIGH SCHOOLS, (4) SPECIAL SCHOOLS, (5) PLANNING AND DESIGN, (6) ECONOMIC ASPECTS, (7) SPECIAL FACILITIES, (8) FURNITURE AND EQUIPMENT, (9) SERVICES, (10) FIRE PREVENTION, AND (11) BIBLIOGRAPHY. COPIES OF SHORTER ARTICLES IN THIS BIBLIOGRAPHY MAY BE OBTAINED FROM THE NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL, OTTAWA, CANADA. PRICES ARE $1.50 FOR A PHOTOPRINT OF ANY ARTICLE NOT MORE THAN 7 PAGES, AN ADDITIONAL $1.50 FOR...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Bibliographies, Books, Indexes, Library Collections, Library Materials, Reference...
Described is a practical approach to continuous reviews, evaluation and weeding (CREW) of library collections, its advantages, and the detailed procedure. Guides by Dewey classes are prepared including information as to age, maximum permissible time without usage, and the presence of various negative factors concerning the material. A bibliography is included. (SC)
Topics: ERIC Archive, Library Collections, Library Material Selection, Library Services, Library Technical...
This bibliography represents a collection of 1,300 book volumes and audiovisual materials collected by the Luzerne County Community College Library in support of the college's Hotel and Restaurant Management curriculum. It covers such diverse topics as advertising, business practices, decoration, nutrition, hotel law, insurance landscaping, health standards and air conditioning, as well as food service and related technologies. Although more than half of the references are available through...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Audiovisual Aids, Bibliographies, Books, Food Service, Hotels, Library Collections,...
In response to the objective of providing quality library services to Florida's citizens and to supplement efforts of the Florida Library Association and local leaders, a library study commission was formed to produce an action plan for Florida's public libraries. The plan concentrates upon three principal needs of the library system: organizational redirection; financial soundness; and quality services on a comprehensive scale. In order to provide a sound basis for analyses and...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Library Collections, Library Planning, Library Services, Library Surveys, Public...
