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This article presents the results of an online survey of access services departments at academic libraries on the responses implemented during the initial stage of COVID-19 in March–May 2020. The 33-question survey was completed by 121 respondents. The article identifies policies and procedures adopted by access services departments during the pandemic, including staffing, return of library materials, fines, due dates, quarantine periods, interlibrary loan, reserves, and retrieval of materials. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Data on library fines imposed at Eastern Illinois University and the University of Hawaii at Manoa was extracted and compared to determine whether fines had an impact on the patron's return behavior. The results indicated that fines as well as patron group status (undergraduate, graduate, faculty) have an impact on the patron's return behavior. [Copyright &y& Elsevier]

This article presents the results of a Web-based survey regarding the circulation of tablets in academic libraries. The survey, which was completed by 61 respondents, identifies the most common circulation policies and procedures used. These results will help other academic institutions develop their own policy or update existing ones. Areas of disagreement raised by the survey are also discussed and avenues for further study are identified. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

An annotated bibliography of several works regarding the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) schooner St. Roch and its captain superintendent Henry A. Larsen is presented, including the book "Ships of the World," by Lincoln P. Paine, obituaries in the periodical "RCMP Quarterly," and the book "Mountie in Mukluks: The Arctic Adventures of Bill White," by Patrick White.

This article presents the results of a second survey of World Wide Web sites for 133 academic libraries serving medium-sized universities. Each Web site was visited, and all of the features were recorded. The study identified 42 core components which were present in over 50 percent of the libraries surveyed. The results of the survey were compared with an identical survey conducted three years earlier. The changes in the Web sites during that period were identified. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article presents the results of a web-based survey that examined current tasks performed within Access Services departments in academic Libraries and explored future trends in the area. Thirty-four core tasks that rated more than sixty percent on the survey were identified as being common to most Access Services departments. Future trends were examined in terms of staffing within Access Services, use statistics, automation, and services offered. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]