SEMINAR ON CENTRAL CONCLUSIONS MANIFESTS IFLA-UNESCO FOR PUBLIC LIBRARY, SCHOOL AND INTERNET

Central America is a region with accumulated experiences of collaborative work in developing the Central Library, among them are: The CSUCA (Council of Central American Universities) globally recognized organization founded in 1948 has strengthened the development of University Libraries, with the creation of the Central American University Libraries. Another significant contribution is made by the Public Libraries and supported by SIDA (Swedish International Development Agency) has substantially expanded the concept of National Public Library. Today is forming the Confederation of Associations and Colleges Central Library, a product of the Workshop held in El Salvador, with the support of IFLA / ALP.

Public library consumer health information pilot project: results of a National Library of Medicine evaluation

In October 1998, the National Library of Medicine (NLM) launched a pilot project to learn about the role of public libraries in providing health information to the public and to generate information that would assist NLM and the National Network of Libraries of Medicine (NN/LM) in learning how best to work with public libraries in the future. Three regional medical libraries (RMLs), eight resource libraries, and forty-one public libraries or library systems from nine states and the District of Columbia were selected for participation. The pilot project included an evaluation component that was carried out in parallel with project implementation. The evaluation ran through September 1999. The results of the evaluation indicated that participating public librarians were enthusiastic about the training and information materials provided as part of the project and that many public libraries used the materials and conducted their own outreach to local communities and groups. Most libraries applied the modest funds to purchase additional Internet-accessible computers and/or upgrade their health-reference materials. However, few of the participating public libraries had health information centers (although health information was perceived as a top-ten or top-five topic of interest to patrons). Also, the project generated only minimal usage of NLM's consumer health database, known as MEDLINEplus, from the premises of the monitored libraries (patron usage from home or office locations was not tracked). The evaluation results suggested a balanced follow-up by NLM and the NN/LM, with a few carefully selected national activities, complemented by a package of targeted activities that, as of January 2000, are being planned, developed, or implemented. The results also highlighted the importance of building an evaluation component into projects like this one from the outset, to assure that objectives were met and that evaluative information was available on a timely basis, as was the case here.

How Does the Denver Public Library System Respond to its Customer's Requests for Global Information?

The interaction between globally available information and public library users is a changing one. Global information is readily available yet provider and user struggle to find efficiencies of time and resources. As a primary resource of global information the Denver Public Library (DPL) is approaching this challenge by providing changing technology to a changing user and by providing a customized approach to immigrant populations. DPL provides global information to library users through collections, programs and Internet. Internet and collections global information usage cannot be directly measured due to privacy restrictions. Only 12.5% of general user programs focus on global information. Four percent of budget serves the immigrant users. This is greater than national averages.

By-laws of the Peoria public library. Revised December, 1904.

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Dedicatory exercises. The Frank S. Stevens public library building.

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Annual report of the trustees of the Melrose Public Library.

Title from cover.

Agreement between the city of New York through the Board of Estimate and Apportionment and the Brooklyn Public Library.

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Bibliography of public library surveys contained in the collections of the University of Chicago Library and the Headquarters Library of the American Library Association /

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Catalogue of the public library of Chelsea, Mass. ...

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A list of the books forming the gift of Louise Chandler Moulton to the Public library of the city of Boston.

Consists of 900 volumes, used "to strengthen the Artz collection, devoted to the acquisition of rare or early editions of American and English authors, and the Galatea collection, comprising works relating in any way to the history and progress of women. Some volumes ... have been placed in the general collection of the library."

Catalogue of the Free public library of Concord, Mass., Jan. 1, 1875.

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Catalogue of the cuneiform tablets of the Wilberforce Eames Babylonian collection in the New York Public Library.

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The school use of Cleveland's Public Library.

"One of a series of bulletins on what Cleveland's public schools are doing."

Finding list of the Chicago Public Library.

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Annual report of the Saint Louis Public Library.

Latest issue consulted: 1976-1977.