Trends in the Management of Library Special Collections in Film and Photography
Trends in the Management of Library Special Collections in Film and Photography

Author: Primary Research Group, Inc

Publisher: Primary Research Group Inc

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 68

ISBN-13: 1574400754

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This special report looks at the management and development of America[alpha]s thriving special collections in .lm and photography. The report pro.les the following collections: The University of Louisville, the Photographic Archives; the University of Utah[alpha]s Multimedia Collection; The American Institute of Physics[alpha] Emilio Segre Visual Archives; The News.lm Library at the University of South Carolina; The University of California, Berkeley Paci.c Film Archive; the UCLA Film and Television Archive, the Vanderbilt University Television News Archive; The National Archives and Records Administration[alpha]s Special Media Preservation Laboratory; the University of Washington[alpha]s Digital Initiatives. The report covers digitization of photographs and .lm, special collection marketing, collection procurement, funding and .nancing, approaches for optimizing both sales revenues and educational uses, development of web-based sale and distribution systems for photography and .lm, systems to assure copyright compliance, the development of online searchable databases, and many other aspects of .lm and photography special collection management.

Trends in Rare Book & Documents Special Collections Management
Trends in Rare Book & Documents Special Collections Management

Author: Caroline Rinaldy

Publisher: Primary Research Group Inc

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 88

ISBN-13: 1574400959

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This special report examines the management practices and business decisions of special collections libraries with a focus on rare books, manuscripts, maps, and other historical documents. The report profiles the John J. Burns Library of Rare Books and Special Collections at Boston College, the Buffalo and Erie County Public Library, the L. Tom Perry Special Collections at Brigham Young University-Provo, the Huntington Library, the Newberry Library, the San Antonio Public Library, the Watkinson Library at Trinity College, the Special Collections Research Center at the University of Southern Illinois-Carbondale, and the Bancroft Library at the University of California-Berkeley. Interviews were conducted in November and December of 2007. Additional information through an online form was provided by San Jose State University Kent State University Map Library AGS Libraries, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and California State University-Chico.

Survey of Academic & Research Library Journal Purchasing Practices
Survey of Academic & Research Library Journal Purchasing Practices

Author: Primary Research Group

Publisher: Primary Research Group Inc

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 177

ISBN-13: 1574401084

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The Survey of Academic & Research Library Journal Purchasing Practices presents data about the journals acquisitions and management practices of an international sample of academic and research libraries. The study reports on a broad range of issues, including: spending trends, use of print vs. electronic access, purchases in ¿bundles¿, purchases through consortia, the role of subscription agents, use and plans for use of open access, attitudes towards the pricing practices of a range of major journal publishers, sources of funding for journal purchases and relations with academic and administrative departments of library parent organizations, and the practical management of the journal acquisition process, among other issues.

The Survey of Academic Libraries
The Survey of Academic Libraries

Author: Primary Research Group

Publisher: Primary Research Group Inc

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 145

ISBN-13: 1574401025

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This latest edition of The Survey of Academic Libraries presents data from more than 75 American and Canadian academic libraries. Data are broken out by size and type of library for easier benchmarking. Data coverage includes: trends in staffing and salaries, hiring plans, changes in the deployment of labor in the library, materials spending, including specific data on databases, traditional print books and journals; receipts from grants and endowments, trends in capital spending, spending on library learning centers, trends in spending through online booksellers, plans for digital repository development, and developments in special collections, among other areas. TABLE OF CONTENTS List Of Tables 3 SURVEY PARTICIPANTS 20 Introduction & Demographics 21 Chapter One: Summary Of Main Findings 23 Chapter Two: Staff 36 Chapter Three: Materials Spending 44 Chapter Four: Grants 50 Chapter Five: Capital Spending 64 Chapter Six: Technology Education Center 74 Chapter Seven: Books 78 Chapter Eight: Subject-Specific Investment 86 Chapter Nine: Journals 101 Chapter Ten: Information Literacy 111 Chapter Eleven: Special Collections 117 Chapter Twelve: Building Plans 127 Chapter Thirteen: Notable Library Science Schools 131 OTHER REPORTS FROM PRIMARY RESEARCH GROUP INC.

Survey of Library Cafés
Survey of Library Cafés

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Publisher: Primary Research Group Inc

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 59

ISBN-13: 1574400894

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The Survey of Library Cafes (ISBN# 1-57440-089-4)presents data from more than forty academic and public libraries about their cafes and other food service operations. The report gives extensive data on library cafe sales volume, best selling products, impact on library maintenance costs, reasons for starting a cafe, effect on library traffic, and many other issues regarding the decision to start and manage a library cafe. The 60 page report presents data useful in managing a library cafe; it is not returnable.

Library Use of E-books
Library Use of E-books

Author: Primary Research Group

Publisher: Primary Research Group Inc

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 119

ISBN-13: 1574401017

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Data in the report is based on a survey of 75 academic, public and special libraries. Librarians detail their plans on how they plan to develop their e-book collections, what they think of e-book readers and software, and which e-book aggregators and publishers appeal to them most and why. Other issues covered include: library production of e-books and collection digitization, e-book collection information literacy efforts, use of e-books in course reserves and inter-library loan, e-book pricing and inflation issues, acquisition sources and strategies for e-books and other issues of concern to libraries and book publishers.

Law Library Benchmarks
Law Library Benchmarks

Author: Primary Research Group

Publisher: Primary Research Group Inc

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 129

ISBN-13: 1574401041

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. Data in the report is based on a survey of 55 North American law libraries drawn from law firm, private company, university, courthouse and government agency law libraries. Data is broken out by size and type of library for ease in benchmarking. The 120+ page report covers developments in staffing, salaries, budgets, materials spending, use of blogs & wikis, use of legal directories, the library role in knowledge management, records management and content management systems. Patron and librarian training, reimbursement for library-related education and other issues are also covered in this latest edition.

Corporate Library Benchmarks
Corporate Library Benchmarks

Author: Primary Research Group

Publisher: Primary Research Group Inc

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 118

ISBN-13: 1574400843

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This report, our sixth survey of corporate libraries, presents a broad range of data, broken out by size and type of organization. Among the issues covered are: spending trends on books, magazines, journals, databases, CD-ROM, directories and other information vehicles, plans to augment or reduce the scope and size of the corporate library, hiring plans, salary spending and personnel use, librarian research priorities by type of subject matter, policies on information literacy and library education, library relations with management, budget trends, breakdown in spending by the library vs other corporate departments that procure information, librarian use of blogs and RSS feeds, level of discounts received from book jobbers, use of subscription agents and other issues of concern to corporate and other business librarians.

International Survey of Library & Museum Digitization Projects
International Survey of Library & Museum Digitization Projects

Author: Primary Research Group

Publisher: Primary Research Group Inc

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 108

ISBN-13: 157440105X

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The International Survey of Library & Museum Digitization Projects presents detailed data about the management and development of a broad range of library special collection and museum digitization projects. Data is broken out by type of digitization project (ie text, photograph, film, audio, etc) size and type of institution, annual spending on digitization and other variables. The report presents data and narrative on staffing, training, funding, technology selection, outsourcing, permissions and copyright clearance, cataloging, digital asset management, software and applications selection, marketing and many other issues of interest to libraries and museums that are digitizing aspects of their collections.

Emerging Issues in Academic Library Cataloging & Technical Services
Emerging Issues in Academic Library Cataloging & Technical Services

Author: Elaine Sanchez

Publisher: Primary Research Group Inc

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 132

ISBN-13: 157440086X

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Of key findings. Description of university, library, and staffing -- Cataloging productivity -- New technologies, enhancement of online catalogs -- Transition to metadata standards -- Cataloging of web sites and digital, special collections -- Library catalog/ metadata training and presentation -- Database maintenance, holdings, and physical processing -- Relationship with acquisitions departments -- Staff education -- Other issues facing library cataloging staff -- Curry College -- The University of North Dakota -- Haverford College -- University of Washington -- Yale University -- Brigham Young University -- Illinois State University -- Louisiana State University -- Pennsylvania State University.