id author title date pages extension mime words sentence flesch summary cache txt crl-14007 American Library Association, Abstracts; Other Publications of Interest 1984-05-01 9 .pdf application/pdf 3497 309 64 The nature of library work and the im- plications of the American Library Associa- tion's (ALA) position on library education and work force are discussed . These re- ports discuss the methodology and results of: (1) a library survey of purchasing, photocopy- ing, reserve, online searching, and interlibrary lending and borrowing activities in U.S. public, academic, federal, and special libraries; (2) a second, more precise phase of the library sur- vey involving compilation of two logbooks for interlibrary loan transactions and staff- conducted photocopying of library materials in 150 selected U.S. libraries; (3) a survey of U.S. book and serial publishers covering their publi- cations, revenues, receipt of photocopying per- mission requests, licenses with document de- livery services, and sales of reprints and article copies; and (4) two library user surveys con- ductedin21 U.S . cache/crl-14007.pdf txt/crl-14007.txt