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Title: Project Files, 1961-1997

ID: 18/2/15

Creator: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Library Research Center

Extent: 52.0 cubic feet

Arrangement: Chronological by project starting date & numerical thereunder

Languages: English [eng]

Project file including project proposals, budgets, correspondence, reports, surveys and responses. Projects include library administration, library characteristics, interlibrary loan, State Library Statistical reports, book selection, professional education, public library growth, card catalog arrangement, centralized processing, Allerton Conferences, library technical assistance in Illinois, impact of a paperless society, statistical services for the American Library Association, Illinois State Library, Army Construction Engineering Research Laboratory - Computer Aided Environmental Legislative Data System (CERL-Celds), analysis of public library statistics, public library services to children, literature, librarians' salaries, and information service to local government officials, In-Library use of books, public library reference questions, use of public libraries for technical information in medium-sized cities, market analysis, study for National Agriculture Library, Kingston (Jamaica), Public Library circulation analysis, Illinois Library materials Processing Center Market analysis, On-line reference & effect on on-line service, correctional institution library survey, library service to the aging & Wake County (NC) libraries survey, Prairienet.

Established in 1961 through a grant of Library Services Act funds from the Illinois State Library, the Center was originally designed to conduct studies related to rural public library development.¹ The Center broadened its scope to include studies of more general library concern, though it continued to emphasize public library problems.²

1. Library Research Center, 1964 Annual Report, p. 1.

2. Ibid.