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Publication date: 1 January 1988

D.H. Revill

The practical problems in conducting simultaneous surveys across nine site libraries are described. Basic data, results and analyses are provided. An overall availability rate of…

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The practical problems in conducting simultaneous surveys across nine site libraries are described. Basic data, results and analyses are provided. An overall availability rate of 75 per cent was discovered. Comparisons are made with a previous survey. A supporting survey of readers' awareness of the survey was also conducted. Improvements are suggested. Benefits and disbenefits for both the teaching department and the library are discussed. The meaning, and limitations, of availability studies are outlined.

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Library Review, vol. 37 no. 1
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0024-2535

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Publication date: 1 October 1977

D.H. Revill

In recent years various articles have described the results of work study exercises in libraries. Smith and Schofield see one of the advantages of these studies as offering…

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In recent years various articles have described the results of work study exercises in libraries. Smith and Schofield see one of the advantages of these studies as offering inter‐library comparisons. This article is offered as a further contribution towards this end.

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Aslib Proceedings, vol. 29 no. 10
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0001-253X

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Publication date: 1 January 1979

Jacqueline Drake

“Corporate planning” is the term which, perhaps more than any other, epitomises the adoption of business management techniques by the public sector. In Britain, with massive local…

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“Corporate planning” is the term which, perhaps more than any other, epitomises the adoption of business management techniques by the public sector. In Britain, with massive local government reorganisation in 1974, many librarians were forced to come to terms with such techniques whether they liked it or not. Of course, in its purest sense corporate planning applies to the combined operation of an entire organisation be it local authority, university, government department or industrial firm. However, in this paper I do not intend discussing “the grand design” whereby the library is merely a component part of a greater body. Rather, it is my intention to view the library as the corporate body. It is a perfectly possible and very useful exercise to apply the principles of corporate planning, and the management techniques involved, to the running of a library or group of libraries. Indeed, many librarians have already done this either independently or as their part in the corporate plan of their parent organisation.

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Library Management, vol. 1 no. 1
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0143-5124

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Publication date: 1 April 1981

D.H. REVILL

The establishment of the British Library (BL) from the Parry Report of 1967, through Dainton in 1969, to the White Paper of 1971 and the Act of 1972, was contemporaneous with the…

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The establishment of the British Library (BL) from the Parry Report of 1967, through Dainton in 1969, to the White Paper of 1971 and the Act of 1972, was contemporaneous with the formation of the polytechnics. The latter had their origins in the White Paper of 1966, A Plan for Polytechnics. The majority of the polytechnics were formed in 1970/71. Their libraries have grown, without central government assistance, to respectable size.

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Journal of Documentation, vol. 37 no. 4
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0022-0418

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Publication date: 1 February 1983

D.H. Revill

In this paper are set out the arguments and counter‐arguments of the advocates on both sides of the controversy over charging. Each library has to decide where the balance of…

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In this paper are set out the arguments and counter‐arguments of the advocates on both sides of the controversy over charging. Each library has to decide where the balance of advantage lies. In the first part are arranged the relevant arguments covering General arguments; Internal efficiency; Cost savings; Additional costs; Costs: fixed and variable; Effects on the user. The second part illustrates various charging practices.

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Program, vol. 17 no. 2
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0033-0337

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Publication date: 1 April 1978

Don Revill

APART FROM ESTIMATES of book losses there appears to be little or no information available on the value of items stolen from libraries. This article is intended to provide an…

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APART FROM ESTIMATES of book losses there appears to be little or no information available on the value of items stolen from libraries. This article is intended to provide an overview of the security problems they face while mentioning some of the devices available to protect individual items or library areas.

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New Library World, vol. 79 no. 4
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0307-4803

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Publication date: 1 March 1984

Roberta Lumek

This work was originally commissioned during 1982, the year that was designated Information Technology Year; the year that the personal computer replaced the space invader machine…

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This work was originally commissioned during 1982, the year that was designated Information Technology Year; the year that the personal computer replaced the space invader machine as a focus for teenage obsession; the year of the library symbol, the Hunt Report on cable TV; the year the US Post Office issued two stamps celebrating American libraries, and the British Post Office issued a stamp for IT year suggesting that libraries were a thing of the past. The work was intended to look at “the background to the IT revolution, the benefits of applying technology to library services and the reasons for its relatively slow progress”. It was envisaged at the time that what would have been effectively a state‐of‐the‐art report on the technology available to libraries, and who was doing what with it, would be a useful tool for library managers introducing or extending library technical services. It might usefully have complemented the LA publication, The impact of new technology on libraries and information centres (LA, 1982). However, for a variety of reasons it was not possible to produce the publication in 1983 as intended; the person commissioned to write it was unable to do so; and eventually, in 1984, it was realised that the speed of development and availability of technology was such that any such work would be useless as a practical guide within months of publication. The growth, during the period, of journals on the subject of library applications of IT of all kinds; the appearance of regular updates in the generalist professional press; the formation of, for example, the Library Association IT Group: all these developments clearly offered better opportunities of current awareness to the library manager than could be achieved by a single monograph.

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Library Management, vol. 5 no. 3
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0143-5124

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Publication date: 1 January 1972

THE London Borough of Havering is running three competitions as part of its contribution to National Book Week—for tapes and tape/slides, ‘Design for the future’, and for a short…

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THE London Borough of Havering is running three competitions as part of its contribution to National Book Week—for tapes and tape/slides, ‘Design for the future’, and for a short story or essay. Entries are invited from schools, groups or individuals, with a closing date of October 7. Autumn should be a busy judging time for Borough Librarian G H Humby and his colleagues.

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New Library World, vol. 73 no. 14
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0307-4803

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Publication date: 1 February 1979

John Allred

The thesis of this book is that library measurement needs to move on and away from the idea that it is a process of counting and comparing the resources deployed by our libraries…

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The thesis of this book is that library measurement needs to move on and away from the idea that it is a process of counting and comparing the resources deployed by our libraries. The current emphasis on output measurement is an improvement but not the answer, refreshing as it is to judge a library by the quantity of what comes out instead of by the quantity of what is put in. The author believes that the nature of the library service is that of a “broad aim” social programme, best judged (evaluated) by gathering “politically significant information on the consequences of political acts”. “Political” here implies that the aims and intentions of those funding, organising and using libraries arise from more than one set of social values and from more than one definition of what the library is, and that they differ in priorities even when they do not directly conflict. Information about the library service will be in the form of a spectrum of measures reflecting the inputs, the processes, the outputs and the impact of the library, relating the various values in various ways. The difficulty in measuring library services, it is argued here, arises from the conflicts and lack of clarity about the aims of the service, and from uncertainty about how the process affects the outcomes. The technical problems of measurement are secondary. Chapter One aims to survey the range of measures available, whilst the rest of the book discusses how they might be used.

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Library Management, vol. 1 no. 2
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0143-5124

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Publication date: 1 May 1965

May MON.24 — FRI.28. Course on abstracting and co‐ordinate indexing.

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May MON.24 — FRI.28. Course on abstracting and co‐ordinate indexing.

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Aslib Proceedings, vol. 17 no. 5
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0001-253X

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