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Make A Quick Decision In (Almost) All Cases: Our Perennial Crisis In Cataloging, Mary K. Bolin

UNL Libraries: Faculty Publications

Growing backlogs and the increasing complexity of cataloging rules have led to activity on the national level to simplify and streamline cataloging. The solution to the perennial crisis in cataloging, however, begins with the attitudes of the individual cataloger. This article discusses those attitudes and proposes solutions for the individual.

Spreadsheet Models For Cataloging Statistics, Mary K. Bolin

UNL Libraries: Faculty Publications

Statistics about cataloging activity are collected for several reasons: to monitor productivity and workflow and to satisfy requests from outside agencies and the library administration about the size and nature of the library's collection. Several spreadsheets developed at the University of Idaho Library to collect statistics about cataloging activity and technical services activity and costs are examined here.

Retrospective Conversion Of A Medium-Sized Academic Library, Mary K. Bolin, Harley B. Wright

UNL Libraries: Faculty Publications

Even a successful retrospective conversion project requires a great deal of time, money, staff .and problem-solving. The University of Idaho Library is a medium-sized academic library and a member of WLN. This article describes the methods the library used to convert its collection, and examines the problems encountered with each method.

Preservation Literacy: Needs And Solutions In Nebraska, Katherine L. Walter

UNL Libraries: Faculty Publications

Preservation literacy is becoming crucial as Nebraska's collections age and as the body of .Nebraska's written heritage grows. Preservation needs in the state have been identified by surveying libraries, historical societies, museums and records offices. Based on these surveys and on a National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) funded State Preservation Planning Project, solutions to shared preservation problems are being proposed. Goals are to improve housing and care of collections, to preserve key collections in Nebraska, to raise public awareness, and to provide a coordinated preservation program for state repositories.

What's Involved In The Evolving?: The Process Used In Developing A Proposal For Library Needs Of Distant Learners In A Sparsely Populated State, Kate E. Adams, Rebecca A. Bernthal, Tracy Bicknell-Holmes, Debra Pearson

UNL Libraries: Faculty Publications

Distance education. Distant learners. Extended campus library service. Nontraditional students. Satellite delivery. Access to information. Equal access to information and service. Limited resources. Over the past few years, these topics have appeared frequently in the literatures of higher education and librarianship. As the burgeoning interest in distance education continues to grow, more and more librarians are involved with meeting the needs of distance education students. Although meeting the library needs of any nontraditional student has always been a challenge for academic libraries, developing a program and process to serve distant learners is particularly challenging. In Nebraska, geographic and demographic factors …

Creativity And Innovation In An Organized Anarchy, Joan Giesecke

UNL Libraries: Faculty Publications

Organizations can respond to change in their environments in a variety of planned and unplanned ways. In complex organizations, when the environment is unstable, managers need to examine their assumptions about how organizations function in order to develop effective strategies for introducing creativity and change. This essay reviews the assumptions behind theories of organizational decision making, explores how those assumptions affect how managers decide strategies for introducing change, and offers some ideas on how to introduce creativity into organizations that face ambiguous internal and external environments.

Serendipity And Good Reading: A Review Article, Robert L. Bolin

UNL Libraries: Faculty Publications

You will find the best stuff in libraries and in life through serendipity. Experience has confirmed that to me time and again.

Stewart, George Rippey. Fire: a Novel.

Stewart, George Rippey. Storm: a Novel.

Catton, Bruce. The War Lords of Washington

Ellsberg, Edward. Under the Red Sea Sun.

Nelson, Donald M. Arsenal of Democracy, the Story of American War Production.

Peniakoff, Vladimir. Popski's Private Army.

Stewart, George Rippey. The Earth Abides.

Waldo, Dwight. The Novelist on Organization & Administration: an Inquiry into the Relationship between Two Worlds.