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.

Schedule

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1977
Tuesday, May 17th
12:00 AM

A Prediction of Some Library Administrative Changes in the Next Decade

J. L. Schofield, Loughborough University of Technology

12:00 AM

Improving Library Performance: Quantitative Approaches to Library Planning

D. E. Webster, Association of Research Libraries

12:00 AM

Management Information from Automated Library Systems

A. J. Evans, Loughborough University of Technology

12:00 AM

Library Effectiveness in Automated Cooperative Systems

A. H. Helal, Essen University Library

12:00 AM

Application of Bibliometrics in Technical University Libraries

Dieter Schmidmaier, Mining Academy Freiburg

12:00 AM

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

Development of the Readers' Service at the Central Library of the Technical University for Heavy Industry, Miskolc, Hungary

Jozsef Zsidai, Technical University for Heavy Industry

12:00 AM

Education of Students as Users of Scientific and Technical Information in Yugoslavia (With Special Regard to Conditions in Slovenia)

Mara Slajpah, University in Ljubjana

12:00 AM

Wednesday, May 18th
12:00 AM

How to Operate a Non-Profit Organization Effectively: Principles of Cost-Benefit Analysis

H. Bonus, Dortmund University

12:00 AM

Use(r) Studies as a Means to Upgrade Library Effectiveness

H. Meister, University and City Library of Cologne

12:00 AM

Library User Education and the Effectiveness of Library Performance

Nancy Fjallbrant, Chalmers University of Technology Library

12:00 AM

Budgeting for a Main Library and Several Departmental Libraries

P. Pinxter, Eindhoven University of Technology

12:00 AM

User Studies to Support Library Effectiveness in Germany

K. W. Neubauer, City Library of Berlin

12:00 AM

The "Steady State" Library: Problems of Acquisition and Discarding in a Small University Library

A. C. Bubb, University of Salford

12:00 AM

Surveys of Journal Use in the Library of the University of Surrey, 1972-1975. A Methodology

D. Eardley, University of Surrey
R. F. Eatwell, University of Surrey

12:00 AM

Results of a Work Study of Interlibrary and Information Services at Helsinki University of Technology Library

Arja-Riitta Haarala, Helsinki University of Technology
A. Juvonen, Helsinki University of Technology
L.-K. Uuttu, Helsinki University of Technology

12:00 AM

Training Students to Use the Library

T. J. Tanzer, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Lausanne

12:00 AM

The Use of Technical Literature by Students

M. Skaliks, Enschede University of Technology

12:00 AM

Friday, May 20th
12:00 AM

Planning Personnel Requirements in Libraries

E. Mittler, Badische LandesBibliothek

12:00 AM

Interaction with National and International Library Resources

M. W. Hill, Science Reference Library
J. D. Ross, Science Reference Library

12:00 AM

Streamlining Library Operations to Increase the Technological University Library's Effectiveness in a Developing Country

C. Deenadayalu, Indian Institute of Technology - Madras

12:00 AM

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

Saturday, May 21st
12:00 AM

The Library in the Academic Environment of Today

G. DeClercq, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven

12:00 AM

The Role of a Research and Management Information Unit in a Large Library

David Russon, The British Library

12:00 AM