The International Association of Scientific and Technological University Libraries (IATUL) is a voluntary international organization which provides a forum for the exchange of ideas relevant to librarianship in technological universities throughout the world. It also provides library directors and senior managers an opportunity to develop a collaborative approach to solving common problems.
The 7th Biennial IATUL Conference was held on May 17th – May 21st, 1977 in Louvain, Belgium. The 7th Biennial IATUL Conference’s theme was “Developing Library effectiveness for the next decade.”
Papers and presentations may be found in the links below, organized first by the day they were presented and then alphabetically by the title of the presentation. Presentations that were given may be found under the additional files field. Papers and presentations for which no files were provided, or for which permission to make openly available was not granted, have been omitted from this collection.
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| Tuesday, May 17th | ||
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| 12:00 AM |
A Prediction of Some Library Administrative Changes in the Next Decade J. L. Schofield, Loughborough University of Technology 12:00 AM |
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Improving Library Performance: Quantitative Approaches to Library Planning D. E. Webster, Association of Research Libraries 12:00 AM |
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Management Information from Automated Library Systems A. J. Evans, Loughborough University of Technology 12:00 AM |
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Library Effectiveness in Automated Cooperative Systems A. H. Helal, Essen University Library 12:00 AM |
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Application of Bibliometrics in Technical University Libraries Dieter Schmidmaier, Mining Academy Freiburg 12:00 AM |
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Power and Influence: Computers and Communication for Effective Library and Information Services P. A. Thomas, National Center of Scientific and Technological Information, Israel 12:00 AM |
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Jozsef Zsidai, Technical University for Heavy Industry 12:00 AM |
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Mara Slajpah, University in Ljubjana 12:00 AM |
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| Wednesday, May 18th | ||
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How to Operate a Non-Profit Organization Effectively: Principles of Cost-Benefit Analysis H. Bonus, Dortmund University 12:00 AM |
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Use(r) Studies as a Means to Upgrade Library Effectiveness H. Meister, University and City Library of Cologne 12:00 AM |
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Library User Education and the Effectiveness of Library Performance Nancy Fjallbrant, Chalmers University of Technology Library 12:00 AM |
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Budgeting for a Main Library and Several Departmental Libraries P. Pinxter, Eindhoven University of Technology 12:00 AM |
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User Studies to Support Library Effectiveness in Germany K. W. Neubauer, City Library of Berlin 12:00 AM |
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The "Steady State" Library: Problems of Acquisition and Discarding in a Small University Library A. C. Bubb, University of Salford 12:00 AM |
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Surveys of Journal Use in the Library of the University of Surrey, 1972-1975. A Methodology D. Eardley, University of Surrey 12:00 AM |
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Arja-Riitta Haarala, Helsinki University of Technology 12:00 AM |
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Training Students to Use the Library T. J. Tanzer, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Lausanne 12:00 AM |
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The Use of Technical Literature by Students M. Skaliks, Enschede University of Technology 12:00 AM |
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| Friday, May 20th | ||
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Planning Personnel Requirements in Libraries E. Mittler, Badische LandesBibliothek 12:00 AM |
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Interaction with National and International Library Resources M. W. Hill, Science Reference Library 12:00 AM |
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C. Deenadayalu, Indian Institute of Technology - Madras 12:00 AM |
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Policy Statement of the Library Network at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology T. J. Tanzer, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Lausanne 12:00 AM |
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| Saturday, May 21st | ||
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The Library in the Academic Environment of Today G. DeClercq, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven 12:00 AM |
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The Role of a Research and Management Information Unit in a Large Library David Russon, The British Library 12:00 AM |
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