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Great Britain adopted national standards, and in 2000 the Audit Commission began publishing both a summary annual reports of library conditions and individualized ratings of libraries. Audit Commission personnel base the reports on statistical data, long-range plans, local government commitment to the library, and a site visit.
Strategic planning is an organization's process of ... Long Range Planning, 27, 5 (October 1994), pp. 85–97 ... (2006). "Strategic Planning for Academic Library ...
planning for new collections or collection areas; institutional mission; cooperative decision-making with other libraries or within library consortia; According to the IFLA there are four primary reasons for a written collection development policy: selection, planning, public relations, and the wider context.
The way patrons use library buildings is also changing. Libraries offered 3.75 million public programs in 2010, the equivalent of one free program per day in every public library in America. [5] Mirroring an increase in overall library usage, attendance at library programs increased by 22 percent between 2004 and 2008. [67]
The Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) is an independent agency of the United States federal government established in 1996. It is the main source of federal support for libraries and museums within the United States, having the mission to advance, support, and empower America’s museums, libraries, and related organizations through grantmaking, research, and policy development ...
Boston Public Library: A Centennial History (Harvard University Press, 1956) Wiegand, Wayne A. Main Street Public Library: Community Places and Reading Spaces in the Rural Heartland, 1876–1956 (University of Iowa Press, 2011) Wiegand, Wayne A. A Part of Our Lives: A History of the American Public Library (Oxford University press, 2015).
The first PLA president was Amy Winslow of Cuyahoga County Library. [10] The first Executive Secretary (a position now known as Executive Director) was Julia Wright Merrill. [13] The original mission of the division was to advance public library interests and to cooperate in the promotion of library service in general.