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Administrator Attitudes; Communication (Thought Transfer); Elementary Secondary Education; Library Administration; Library Collections; Library Policy; Library Role; Library Services; Principals; School Libraries; Value Judgment

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Presents strategies for educating administrators as to the value of school library programs and their influence on student achievement. Highlights include meeting and communicating with principals and superintendents; providing documentation to support library policies and collections; demonstrating professional research abilities; inviting them to observe; attending conventions; and articulating administrative tasks. (LRW) Note:The following two links are not-applicable for text-based browsers or screen-reading software. Show Hide Full Abstract

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Academic Achievement; Academic Standards; Access to Information; Administrator Attitudes; Elementary Secondary Education; Evaluation Methods; Information Literacy; Learning Resources Centers; Library Collections; Management Development; Media Specialists; Principals; School Libraries

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Describes a program developed to help school principals understand the importance of school library media specialists based on "Information Power." Explains modules on academic achievement and school libraries, information literacy and academic standards, library collections and flexible access, and revitalization and evaluation of school library programs. (LRW)

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Budgets; Futures (of Society); Library Collections; Library Education; Library Materials; Printed Materials; Research Libraries

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Includes a 1991 lecture on the future of rare book libraries and a commentary from 2003. Topics include paper-based collections versus electronic resources; changes in general research libraries; budget shortages; changing priorities; reformatting library materials; and education for rare books and special collections librarians. (LRW)

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Affective Behavior; Library Collections

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Discussion of authenticity in artifacts focuses on the ability of an artifact, through its physical presence, to create an experiential and affective response in the researcher. Explores implications for collectors and special collections librarians of the fact that digital objects can be likened to physical artifacts because they also claim experiential and affective authenticity. (Author/LRW)

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Cultural Context; Foreign Countries; Library Collections; Library Materials; War

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Considers whether rare books taken during times of war as trophies by the enemy should be restored to their original owners. Highlights include problems associated with restitution; legal and political considerations; individual books versus special collections; and the German book trade and libraries and their relations to the Soviet Union after World War II. (Author/LRW)

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Library Collections; Library Materials; Physical Environment; Preservation; Storage; Technological Advancement

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Highlights some of the skills and technological advances that have changed the way special collections are preserved in reference to two approaches: item-level conservation and collections conservation. Discusses mechanical paper splitting; computer imaging and mechanization; mass deacidification; controlling temperature, humidity, pests, and mold; storage environments; and film preservation. (Author/LRW) Note:The following two links are not-applicable for text-based browsers or screen-reading software. Show Hide Full Abstract

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Electronic Libraries; Foreign Countries; Library Catalogs; Library Collections; Library Development; Library Materials; Library Services; Nonprint Media

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Discusses the development of Electronic Library at TERI (The Energy and Resources Institute, New Delhi). Highlights include: hardware and software used; the digital library/Virtual Electronic Library; directory of Internet journals; virtual reference resources; electronic collection/Physical Electronic Library; downloaded online full-length documents available on the Internet; journals, CD-ROM collections, and other in-house collections and databases; the library catalog; and benefits. (AEF) Note:The following two links are not-applicable for text-based browsers or screen-reading software. Show Hide Full Abstract

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Interaction; Library Collections; Measurement Techniques; Performance; Use Studies; Users (Information)

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Proposes two general classes of user tasks-recognition tasks and tasks requiring inference-for which performance measures were developed. The measures include graphical object recognition, textual object recognition, action recognition, free-text gist determination, multiple-choice gist determination and visual gist determination. Results from two user studies applying these measures are also discussed. (Author/AEF) Note:The following two links are not-applicable for text-based browsers or screen-reading software. Show Hide Full Abstract

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Electronic Libraries; Elementary Education; Focus Groups; Foreign Countries; Learning Theories; Library Collections; School Libraries

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Describes research aimed at providing educational organizations with practical strategies for implementing electronic learning (e-learning), based on focus group discussions at an elementary school in Taiwan. Considers the strategic role of digital libraries in electronic learning environments, library collections, digital technology, human factors, and learning theories. (Author/LRW)

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Case Studies; Graduate Students; Higher Education; Library Collection Development; Library Collections; Library Education; Library Material Selection; Problems; Public Libraries; Selection Tools

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Shows how a well-respected collection development tool contains ideological frames, using the "Public Library Catalog" (PLC) as an example. Evaluation by library science graduate students indicate that the PLC makes recommendations that have an imbalance of perspectives, overemphasize a particular facet or theory within a field, lack authority, and have usability problems. (Contains 48 references.) (MES) Note:The following two links are not-applicable for text-based browsers or screen-reading software. Show Hide Full Abstract

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