Library Cataloging
A new report shows:
- Tx Libraries Roi
This year the Texas Legislature meets, so this info may be useful. TSL&A has released the report Texas Public Libraries Return on Investment Study. Did you know that for every $1.00 invested in public libraries around the state, Texans receive $4.42...
- Proposed Texas Budget Demolishes Statewide Library Programs
Proposed Texas Budget Demolishes Statewide Library Programs The first draft of the State's budget proposal for 2012-13 affects every statewide library program. The proposal: Eliminates Loan Star Libraries (direct aid grants to public libraries)Eliminates...
- Stimulus Package
Ask and you shall receive or at least find. It seems ALA was on the ball and has been active in asking for funding for libraries. Include Public Libraries in Recovery Funding! is a page where you can send an email to your senators. I've used it to...
- Texas
TexShare, a statewide consortium of academic libraries, public libraries, and libraries of clinical medicine administered by the Texas State Library and Archives Commission, employs traditional and innovative strategies to resource sharing. Among the...
- Naco
This is a plea to OCLC and RLN to consider providing access to the authority files as a separate product. We are a small library and cannot afford full cataloging status on either of these utilities. However, with our specialized collection and close...
Library Cataloging
TX Libraries
A new report shows:
Texas? public libraries, when treated as a whole, have traditionally performed poorly in comparison to most other states in terms of standard measures of inputs (funding, collection, staffing) and outputs (circulation, library visits, etc.). Many factors contribute to this state of affairs; however, the consultants believe that inadequate funding levels and ineffective governance structures contribute most significantly to the problem.Yet the major issue for Rick Perry and Tom Delay is gerrymandering.
- Tx Libraries Roi
This year the Texas Legislature meets, so this info may be useful. TSL&A has released the report Texas Public Libraries Return on Investment Study. Did you know that for every $1.00 invested in public libraries around the state, Texans receive $4.42...
- Proposed Texas Budget Demolishes Statewide Library Programs
Proposed Texas Budget Demolishes Statewide Library Programs The first draft of the State's budget proposal for 2012-13 affects every statewide library program. The proposal: Eliminates Loan Star Libraries (direct aid grants to public libraries)Eliminates...
- Stimulus Package
Ask and you shall receive or at least find. It seems ALA was on the ball and has been active in asking for funding for libraries. Include Public Libraries in Recovery Funding! is a page where you can send an email to your senators. I've used it to...
- Texas
TexShare, a statewide consortium of academic libraries, public libraries, and libraries of clinical medicine administered by the Texas State Library and Archives Commission, employs traditional and innovative strategies to resource sharing. Among the...
- Naco
This is a plea to OCLC and RLN to consider providing access to the authority files as a separate product. We are a small library and cannot afford full cataloging status on either of these utilities. However, with our specialized collection and close...