Global ETD Search
Search theses and dissertations gathered from participating repositories worldwide. Every result links back to the library that holds it. No account is needed.
Results
Showing 1 to 20 of 23 for “"Library collections"”.
-
The Relationship Between Size of Research Library Collections and The Support of Faculty Research Studies
Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-10T19:47:35Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 7114951.pdf: 3822746 bytes, checksum: 4195387e8fbcfa8180397373316e8b9a (MD5) Previous issue date: 1970
-
User preferences in the use of Law Library collections : a case study of the Brand van Zyl Law Library of the University of Cape Town
… and the teaching of law. The use of the law library by the entire university often causes concern on the part of the legal patrons and staff who use and manage the library and its collection. This dissertation investigates the nature and purpose of the law library of the University of Cape …
-
A Study of Overlap and Duplication Among Children's Collections in Public and Elementary School Libraries
… own the same title) and duplication (when one library has more than one copy of a book) in children's collections were measured in two elementary school libraries and the public library in each of four Illinois communities (population approximately 30,000). Two hundred book titles were randomly …
-
Effective, Efficient Retrieval in a Network of Digital Information Objects
… thread is that they include or are built around collections of digital objects. Digital libraries also provide services to large communities, one of which is almost always search. Digital library collections, however, have several characteristic features that make search difficult. They are …
-
Foreign Students and U.S. Academic Libraries: A Case Study of Foreign Students and Libraries in Two Universities in New Orleans, Louisiana
… of U.S. academic libraries, their patterns of library use, and the nature of libraries in their countries. A questionnaire was sent to all foreign students at Tulane University and the University of New Orleans. A total of 388 responses out of the 611 questionnaires sent were received. One …
-
Collection development of non-Christian religious holiday books in elementary school libraries
… books about non-Christian holidays. Elementary library collections may under-represent non-Christian religious books because of a lack of school library media specialists' personal knowledge about non-Christian holidays. This study surveyed school library media specialists through a written …
-
Censorship and self-censorship in the public high school libraries of Gloucester County, New Jersey
… of commonly banned young adult (YA) books in the library collections of traditional public high schools in Gloucester County. A significant lack of such books may be a sign that censorship or self-censorship has hindered the development of the collection, thereby robbing students of their freedom …
-
The growth of e-book collections at South African academic libraries : a case study of the Western Cape
… unsure of the value e-books can add to their collections and subsequently to their users’ research. E-book integration into library collections is made difficult by complicated purchasing and lending models and ever-changing technological requirements. Additionally, it is unclear what exactly …
-
Systems integration with DLSI
… platform and technology independent. Digital Library Service Integration (DLSI) provides a systematic approach in integrating the digital library collections and services. Amazon's website www.amazon.com is integrated with DLSI such that users see the same web pages as they see when they are …
-
Newspapers and historical research: a study of historians and custodians in Wales
… the difficulties associated with newspapers in library collections from both the perspectives of newspaper users and custodians. Seeks to provide recommendations for both groups to facilitate the use of newspapers. The research adopted essentially qualitative methods. Using questionnaires and …
-
Libraries for social change: centering youth of color and/or LGBTQ youth in library practice
… conduct and knowledge as central to library services worked - and continue to work - against youth of color and/or LGBTQ and gender non-conforming youth. It pulls from queer, feminist, poststructural, and critical theory to provide a model for how libraries can center youth made …
-
Information behaviors of users of Korean collections: how do they find needed information?
… and a large population of Korean students, the library’s Korean collection is bound to have an increased rate of circulations and programs geared towards this rising population. However, the use of library collections does not reflect the campus or higher education climate of increased interest …
-
The architecture of bibliophilia : eighteenth-century Ottoman libraries
… cultural conditions that paved the way for this library movement, the dynamics that affected the variety of architectural formulas developed for these buildings, and the receptions of the trend in the elite circles. The Ottomans designed some of the libraries with allusions to the image of …
-
Supporting Collocation Learning
… and organized into three searchable digital library collections that support different aspects of collocation learning. Each of these constitutes a vast concordance whose entries are presented in ways that help students use collocations more effectively in their writing. To provide extended …
-
The genesis of youth services in public libraries in China, 1912-1937
… to establish, organize, and operate a children’s library in China. The first children’s reading rooms were founded in public libraries in the late 1910s, which predated the other elements of youth services librarianship. In response to the publication peak of children’s reading materials since the …
-
User perception of academic library service quality and value: the case of the Ghana Institute of Journalism and Ashesi University College libraries
… Concepts like value, impact, quality, academic library service quality formed the conceptual framework of the study. The study is a comparative case study that solicited information from the perspectives of students, faculty and library staff. Open and closeended questions were adopted to gather …
-
Opening The "Preschoolers' Door To Learning": An Ethnographic Study Of The Use Of Public Libraries By Preschool Girls
… incidents involving their daughters' use of library materials and other library-related activities. Follow-up interviews were conducted with mothers to verify and find out more about the behaviour observed during the library visits and reported in the diaries. Visit, diary and interview …
-
Appalachian studies in grades 6-12 language arts and English curricula in central Appalachia
… to assess the effectiveness of school library media centers as resources, to identify major institutions and individuals who influence teachers, and to ascertain the extent to which young adult literature is used. Surveys were sent to English teachers and school librarians in 305 …
-
A survey of weeding practices of print materials in libraries of higher learning institutions in Zambia
Weeding of print collections is an important component of collection development and management, yet it receives less attention than the selection of new materials in most libraries. As print collections continue to grow, many library collections are drowning in obsolete, unused, and unwanted …
Page 1 of 2