purpose: this paper has two main goals: first, to evaluate the position of geological survey of iran library through the assessment of internal (strengths and weaknesses) and external (opportunities and threats) environment; and then, provide solutions and strategies to help library managers and administrators to achieve their goals, missions and visions. methodology: among the existing models,...

This research originates from a belief that special libraries in developing countries need to modernise and implement their ICT infrastructure and articulate information policies that will facilitate the exploitation of information resources to the optimum to increase national productivity. Special libraries and information centres in developing countries in general and in the Arab world in par...

A SMALL UNIVERSITY LIBRARY often seems large to a high school or special librarian, and the difference in size between very large and small public libraries is tremendous. The sophisticated librarian would cross off of his list many small libraries, of which there are tens of thousands, as not deserving the name "library." For this article, a search was made for a yardstick large enough to incl...

Katharine Sharp Review [ISSN 1083-5261] No. 6, Winter 1998 [http://edfu.lis.uiuc.edu/review/6/estrin_inst.pdf] SR The promise of libraries to educate the citizenry has long been a purpose of the library as an institution. Instruction occurs in public, academic, and special libraries and is manifested in many ways beyond the traditional classroom environment. This article suggests that instructi...