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This paper focuses on the development of library webpages available on Engineering websites in the state of Maharashtra. In an information age/era, for any college library, its webpages integral part as central facility that the students and staffs need resources for curriculum and research works. Depending on survey and study of engineering websites throught out in Maharashtra it is tried to search information regarding various resources and library services provided. It searches all data informatics of available books, Printed journals, E-book, E-journals, Project reports, Doctoral research thesis, Reference books, Journals and periodicals, News papers, CD/DVDs , Videos , etc. Main purpose is to find out whether all details resources of library webpage are available on Engineering college websites or not.

This study aims to determine the process of procurement of library materials at the Regional Library and Archives Service of Muaro Jambi Regency. The research method used is library research methodologically classified as qualitative research with a descriptive approach in the form of a case study which aims to explain the procurement of library materials at the Regional Library and Archives Service of Muaro Jambi Regency. Data collection techniques used were through observation and interviews. The findings of the study are (1) the Regional Library and Archives Office of Muaro Jambi Regency has carried out library material procurement activities through purchases from book agents, bookstores, gifts, entrances and through assistance once a year. (2) The Regional Library and Archives Office of Muaro Jambi Regency has never procured serial publications, as well as non-book materials (recorded works) because according to them library materials are rarely needed by users. (3) The procurement of library funds for library materials is not running properly as seen from the constraints that occur, namely the lack of spending funds for the procurement of library materials both from series published library materials and recorded library materials, as well as the lack of attention from leaders leading to the procurement of library materials so that the available collections incomplete, not up to date and not used by the user. From these findings, it is hoped that the Regional Library and Archives Office of Muaro Jambi Regency will continue to procure collections of serial publications and recorded works because these collections can increase the number of collections available, create public interest in reading and add to the repertoire of library collections. Furthermore, the Regional Library and Archives Service of Muaro Jambi Regency should process funds properly by paying attention to user needs so that library materials purchased are in accordance with user education. Then also the head of the library must pay more attention that leads to the procurement of library materials so that the available collections can be more up to date, complete, and can be used by users. Keywords: Library Material Procurement, Library Collection, Public Library

Mobile learning is growing in popularity as use of mobile devices by students worldwide increases. At the same time the number of digital information resources such as digital collections in libraries available online has also increased. Digital collections in libraries are valuable and proven resource of information in education. As students use mobile devices more frequently it is expected that use of digital information resources including digital collections in education will also increase. To achieve this goal user interfaces of digital collections must be developed in such a manner to be easily used, especially on mobile devices. This paper presents results of the research of elements of user interfaces of digital collections in libraries in Croatia available on the Web to establish the level of their mobile usability and accessibility as a prerequisite for their potential use in the learning process. To fulfill that potential, digital collections have to support different screen sizes on mobile devices and be accessible on new and old mobile devices, offer assortment of common functions to user etc. The results of this research will help librarians in planning further development of digital collections and educators in planning use of digital collections in their curricula.

Mbooks are open-access, digitized books freely available on the Internet. This article describes the Auraria Library's experience of loading brief MARC records for Mbooks into its online public access catalog and looks at some of the issues that arose from the record-loading project. Despite the low quality of the records, librarians in Auraria Library thought that loading them into the catalog was advantageous because of the rich content in the collection and because many of the records could be improved using the global update functionality in the catalog. Making the records available through the catalog, as opposed to merely linking to the entire collection from the Library's Web page, was considered to be valuable because of the aggregation a catalog provides and because the Mbooks collection helped fill gaps in the Library's physical collections. As more open-access, digitized books become available, libraries will need to plan and manage how best to provide access to them.

Critical to the successful implementation of Open System Architecture (OSA) test software, in accordance with the requirements of IEEE 1641[1][2], is the implementation Signal Libraries using the Test Signal Frameworks (TSFs) that provide the test program set (TPS) Developer with the suite of defined signals to be used for the test software. This paper aims to provide insight for the TPS developers and guidance on the best practices to be followed when creating and reusing Signal Libraries. It also considers issues to be kept in mind when bringing together a collection of existing Signal Libraries to be used for testing, and references examples that are available for future developers. The paper considers research into the effects of different methods that could be used for matching the TSFs used in describing UUT test requirements and instrument capabilities. This includes evaluation of their relative merits using a variety of “use cases” and example TSFs. Typical User questions are also considered along with their answers. The example TSFs referenced within the paper represent a collection of Signal Libraries available used in previous demonstrations and brought up to the IEEE Std. 1641-2010 standard. These include Signal Libraries provided as part of 1641 demonstrations and previous reports and form the basis of an OSA Signal Library. The technical analysis considers both symbolic signal expression and signal simulation, to address issues such as signal equivalence, quantization, phase jitter and overall performance. The purpose of the paper being to produce material for inclusion into recommendations and guidelines that will ensure best practice can be followed when generating Signal libraries for a wide range of signal types. This will ensure that Signal libraries are fit for purpose, and achieve the desired level of quality necessary for future matching UUT test requirements against the instrument capabilities. In addition, this will ensure that the UUT requirements are NOT over specified against the instrument capability used to initially implement the test solution. To ensure best practice across OSA RTS users, formal guidelines are required for the process of creating and defining IEEE 1641 TSFs in order to minimize differences between signal libraries and any effects that become apparent when implemented on different ATEs, using different instrumentation. The paper considers guidelines which could form the basis of a recommended practice to ensure standardization across the 1641 user base for use on Military or Commercial Automatic Test Systems (ATS).

This study investigated the level of undergraduates’ satisfaction and their perceptions towards library resources and services provided by the Science Library, University of Peradeniya. The survey research method was adopted to achieve the above objectives. A questionnaire was administered to 442 undergraduates of the Faculty of Science. 371 duly filled questionnaires were returned, were then analyzed. The findings revealed that more than 60% of the undergraduates visited the library daily and weekly, while more than 80% of them visited the library for multiple purposes. Regarding the available resources, the majority of the undergraduates were satisfied with the library book collection, periodicals and available magazines. Yet, only 39% and 32% of students reported that they were satisfied with e-resources and audiovisual materials available in the library respectively. Considering the library services, the majority of respondents were satisfied with lending, reference, referral and photocopying services. However, 11% of them were not satisfied, where as 13% of the students were not even aware of online services provided by the library. Further, the findings demonstrated that limited number of computers, unavailability of Wi-Fi facilities, unawareness of the library website, difficulties of accessing the Internet and searching research articles were the main reasons for students’ dissatisfaction. However, the majority of the undergraduates praised the library staff for offering an impressive service. The results proved that undergraduates have positive perceptions towards the library and its services. Based on the findings, some suggestions were made to increase user satisfaction and to enhance the library resources and service quality.

Introduction. Procurement of library collections must be effective and efficient. So far, it has been assumed that IPB University students prefer to use Indonesian books, but from some observations on books collection, quite a lot of Indonesian books’ due date slips are blank. This means that the book was never borrowed by the user. One way to measure the usability of a collection is to use citation analysis. Objectives. This study aims to 1) determine the availability of Indonesian language books cited in the undergraduate theses of the Faculty of Agriculture IPB University 2015-2019 in the collection of the IPB University Library; 2) identify Indonesian language books that are widely used by students of IPB University, Faculty of Agriculture in writing undergraduate theses 2015-2019; 3) knowing the average age of obsolescence of Indonesian language books cited in the 2015-2019 IPB University, Faculty of Agriculture undergraduate theses; 4) find out which Indonesian language book publishers are cited the most by the 2015-2019 Faculty of Agriculture undergraduate theses. Methods. This research is a quantitative research, using one of the bibliometric methods, namely citation analysis. Data collection is done by observing the bibliography in each undergraduate thesis, all Indonesian books in the bibliography will be recorded on an Excel-based note sheet. Results. The results showed that Indonesian language books cited in the undergraduate theses of the Faculty of Agriculture, IPB University 2015-2019 were available in the collections of the IPB University Library as much as 18.0 % for the Department of Soil Science and Land Resources, 22.0 % for the Department of Agronomy and Horticulture, 22.0 % for the Department of Plant Protection and 16.0 % for the Department of Landscape Architecture. The most cited books by undergraduate theses at the Faculty of Agriculture are “Soil and Water Conservation” for the Department of Soil Science and Land Resources, “Plant Breeding Techniques” for the Department of Agronomy and Horticulture, “Pesticides and Their Applications” for the Department of Plant Protection, and “Garden Maintenance” for the Department of Landscape Architecture. The obsolescence of the cited books is between 12-15 years. The publishers whose books have been cited the most are Gadjah Mada University Press, Kanisius and Penebar Swadaya.

In 2018, the University of Kansas (KU) Libraries upgraded from a tired, twenty-year-old basement space to a new, purpose-built conservation lab for library and archives collections. The new conservation lab, which is housed in the special collections and archives library, quadrupled available lab space for its conservators and fleet of student employees. The move afforded Conservation space in the same library as the most vulnerable collection materials. In addition, rooms in the special collections and archives library were repurposed for audiovisual (AV) preservation, creating two new spaces for film and video workflows and upgrading an existing small audio room. This paper will discuss the conservation and preservation lab construction literature and will serve as a practical exemplar of the challenges and successes of the planning process, including lessons learned and unexpected benefits.

The publication coincides with the 90-th anniversary of the Sci-tech Library of Nizhny Novgorod State Technical University. The history of the Library is described; the Library was established as a result of merging several universities, in particular it comprises the collections of Warsaw Emperor Nickolas II Polytechnic Institute. The Library’s collections have been supporting educational and research activities of the University. The continuing process of collection development is based on modern technologies which meets the user demands.The most recent data on library services, collections and users is provided. The library processes are computer-based; the e-catalog and e-library databases are available. The library collections support the learning process in 1,623 courses and disciplines. The role of the library in the educational process and university’s research programs is emphasized. The library environment has become more comfortable for the users.The Library contributes to cultural and social activities and to students’ personal development and social adaptation, humanistic education of the young adults. Innovative activities are described.The author concludes that the Sci-tech library plays a significant role in educational, research and social processes and offers its users various and relevant information products and services.

A customer-centered organization ensures that the needs of clients are at the focal point of all services offered in the organization and that the customer gets the best customer experience throughout the service. Research has shown that service institutions are deterred from offering customer-centric services due to issues relating to organizational culture, structure, processes, and financial metrics. This study explores strategies and mechanisms to support academic libraries towards achieving customer-centric service provision. In this regard, this study identifies three parameters and explores their role in delivering customer-centeredness in academic libraries, namely, access to library services, staff responsiveness and organizational support. Findings of this study show that library customers wish for a relevant library collection, an available service, unlimited information access, spacious reading area, a conducive study environment, sufficient library equipment and supportive staff.

Background: With the mandate to review all available literature in the study’s inclusion parameters, systematic review projects are likely to require full-text access to a significant number of articles that are not available in a library’s collection, thereby necessitating ordering content via interlibrary loan (ILL). The aim of this study is to understand what effect a systematic review service has on the copyright royalty fees accompanying ILL requests at an academic health sciences library.Case Presentation: The library created a custom report using ILLiad data to look specifically at 2018 ILL borrowing requests that were known to be part of systematic reviews. This subset of borrowing activity was then analyzed to determine its impact on the library’s copyright royalty expenditures for the year. In 2018, copyright eligible borrowing requests that were known to be part of systematic reviews represented only approximately 5% of total filled requests that involved copyright eligible borrowing. However, these systematic review requests directly or indirectly caused approximately 10% of all the Spencer S. Eccles Library copyright royalty expenditures for 2018 requests.Conclusion: Based on the sample data set, the library’s copyright royalty expenditures did increase, but the overall financial impact was modest.

If an item is not readily available in an academic library’s collection, is it quicker to buy it or does is make better sense to borrow it? At a public, four-year institution, acquisitions and inte...

Objective This study aimed to consider the estimated time to multi-resistant tuberculosis culture conversion, and associated factors, in order to enhance evidence utilization in eastern Africa. Methods We systematically identified available articles on multidrug-resistant tuberculosis culture conversion using PubMed, Scopus, Cochrane Library, Web of Science core collection, and Science Direct databases. A random-effects model was employed using the R 3.6.1 version and Stata/se 14 software. Results Nine articles with a sample size of 2458 multidrug-resistant tuberculosis patients were included. The two-month culture conversion rate was 75.4%, with a median time of 61.2 days (interquartile range: 48.6-73.8). In the included studies, favorable treatment outcomes of MDR-TB patients were seen in 75% of the cases, while unfavorable treatment outcomes were seen in 18% (10% deaths, 7% defaulted, and 1% treatment failure) of the cases. The independent factor for delayed sputum culture conversion was body mass index below 18.5 kg/m2 (HR = 3.1, 95% CI: 2.0, 6.7). Conclusion The median time to sputum culture conversion was 61.2 days, which is a reasonably short time. Body mass index was the identified associated factor leading to delayed culture conversion. Therefore, there is a need for awareness of how to improve the nutritional status of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis patients through appropriate nutritional supports.

Objective This article describes how funding from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) provided resources for state and public libraries to deliver health information to their patrons. Methods Three IMLS publicly available data collections were used: State Library Administrative Agency Survey data; State Program Report system; and the Awarded Grants Search portal. Data about health related projects from these two administrative data sources for 36 competitive award projects since 2015 and 143 projects supported via the formula-funded Grants to States Program between 2015-2018 (inclusive) were included. Descriptive statistics about projects with a health and wellness focus were presented within the context of others supported by Grants to States. Results Competitive projects supported public libraries’ health resources and built librarians’ skills to facilitate patron access to health information. The Grants to States program supported 143 projects associated with health undertaken by 29 states plus Puerto Rico between 2015 and 2018. The IMLS $14.4 million investment during this period leveraged an additional $5 million from state and local sources to support health information projects in public libraries. Finally, data from the State Library Administrative Agency Survey showed that in addition to projects that relied on IMLS Grants to States funds, 29 state libraries provided program assistance in health literacy to the public libraries in their jurisdictions in 2018. Conclusions The findings point to a need to determine whether there are ways to collect additional information via IMLS’s data systems to further support state and public libraries in meeting patron health information needs. The lessons learned in the analyses in this article offer useful food-for-thought about how IMLS might work with our data stakeholders to continue to modify each of these data sources to describe the role of libraries in an increasingly complex information landscape.

Terkko Health Hub is a startup community, a co-working area and an event space focused on health and life sciences. The Meilahti Campus Library of Helsinki University Library also operate in the Hub. A library is an important meeting place and learning environment. In the library, you will meet people and the feeling of belonging to a university community is amplified. The co-operation with Terkko Health Hub started when the library removed part of the printed collection and freed space was available for alternative use. We were satisfied and excited on the campus about the new collaboration.

Digital age or information society has not only brought several opportunities before us, but also several challenges. From users’ point of view, consulting a multitude of sources, libraries, systems and networks across disciplines for required information is a formidable task in the digital age, particularly in social sciences and humanities. Users are going to the Internet in the myth that everything is available there, instead of using the rich collections that many libraries, including research and reference ones, have built over the years and most of the materials available in these collections are not available on the Internet. Part of the problem is that many if not most users are unaware of the rich collections available only in the printed form. The traditional library, by adding digital resources to its collection, is going to be the hybrid or polymedia library of the future with provision for accessing the resources across space and time limitations. As the diffusion of the Internet is taking place deep across urban and rural areas in the country and even through mobile phones, all libraries in India general, and reference and research libraries, in particular, need to redefine their role to be in-sync with the tech-savvy generation to make their collections and services reach users across space and time limitations. This paper presents a study of Dr. Ganda Singh Punjabi Reference Library (PRL), Patiala. PRL is a specialised research and reference library, located in Punjabi University campus, Patiala and is a major centre for study in Indian history and culture in general, and that of Punjab in particular, besides being a repository of materials on Punjabi language and literature and on Punjab history and culture. The back bone of the library is its Special collection section that contains special collections. These special collections are 54 in number, which contain more than 70,000 documents-including books, manuscripts, diaries, memoirs, rare books, maps, old journals and newspapers, religious scriptures etc. - from the personal collections of literary luminaries and scholars. These collections have contributed significantly in building up a strong collection on Indian and Punjab history and culture, and on Punjabi language and literature. In spite of several initiatives such as MIP project for preservation, DELNET database project for access, merging of special collections and reclassification of some special collections, automation and digitisation initiatives etc., the services of the library have not kept pace with the developments in technology to cater to the needs of those users who cannot visit the library. This is typical of an Indian research and reference library primarily on social sciences and humanities. The paper also gives some suggestions for managing special collections of the library so that these could be made available to users worldwide. It is imperative for PRL, which has preserved the graphic records of the Greater Punjab region, to meet the information needs of scholars, researchers and others located anywhere in the world and interested in India in general; and on any aspect of the greater Punjab region in particular. The challenge before PRL is huge but not insurmountable given the fact that basic ICT infrastructure is already available in the library and in Punjabi University, where the library is located. By doing so, PRL can set benchmarks for other reference and research libraries in the country.

This study was conducted to determine about the debit notes is a taxable and tariffs 10% ( ten percent ) on export of taxable service if it is reviewed by taxable supplies, and to determine the treatment of VAT on Debit Note reviewed by the concept of destination principle and to determine whether it is acceptable in tax regulation of Indonesia if It’s issued a Debit Note for collecting of company income and to estimate how much penalties arise. This study used qualitative methods with qualitative descriptive analysis. The object of research is based on data available at the company that is secondary data. Data collection techniques are Library research . The results of data processing that the Debit Note is an taxable of VAT. In terms of destination Principle Debit Note is taxable to VAT 0 % (Zero Percent) for the shipping charge, the Minimum Order Quantity (MOQ) charge and cancel orders charge / penalty fees. Debit Note Billing mechanism is allowed in tax regulation as long as there is a document whose position equivalent to tax invoice for canceled order charge/penalty fees, but charge for shipping and the Minimum Order Quantity (MOQ) charge don’t allow in the tax regulation because it is non-compliance of the material terms of the tax invoice. As a result of the Debit Note that issued raised the sanctions of Article 14 paragraph (2) of general provisions and taxation procedures for 2 % of the tax base. Based on the suggested better in making commercial document to charge must analyze aspects of taxation in order to prevent tax penalties in this case to issue Debit Note need to create a document that is equivalent to a Tax Invoice because mechanism of the Debit Note is taxable of VAT.

Access denied turnaway statistics are provided to libraries to help with serials collection development, but very little research about turnaways is available. This article examines the relationshi...

Digital collections, institutional repositories, open educational resources, open access publishing, and new forms of digital scholarship are all ways in which academic libraries are growing their collections from the inside out as well as making this content widely available to other libraries and users. This article will explore national and global trends in library-enabled publishing and content creation, focusing on the kinds of collections being published by libraries, the ways that metadata can bring these collections together for improved access, and the role of consortia in the process.

The present study analyses the users’ attitudes towards library resources and services of first grade colleges of Davangere city, Karnataka. The purpose of study is to identify the awareness of library resources and services. The findings of the study is that majority of 74.86% students satisfied with space for reading room followed by 66%, 63.71%, 62.57%, and 57.43% are stated that they satisfied with furniture, Toilet, Ventilation, and cleanliness available in the library. The suggestion was given by the investigator library collection and other operation must be computerized to meet the users’ needs quickly and promptly.

The present study examines the user perception about the library collection and services in the Cherraan’s College of Pharmacy, Coimbatore. Two hundred questionnaires were distributed to the students of Cherraan’s College of Pharmacy, Coimbatore. Out of the 200 questionnaires, one hundred and fifty questionnaires were received with full details. The result of study indicates that majority of users aware about the library collection and services available in the college. E-resources provided by Dr.M.G.R. Medical University and Bentham e-journals are preferred by the majority of the respondents.

This report presents a hands-on introduction to natural language processing (NLP) of radiology reports with deep neural networks in Google Colaboratory (Colab) to introduce readers to the rapidly evolving field of NLP. The implementation of the Google Colab notebook was designed with code hidden to facilitate learning for noncoders (ie, individuals with little or no computer programming experience). The data used for this module are the corpus of radiology reports from the Indiana University chest x-ray collection available from the National Library of Medicine’s Open-I service. The module guides learners through the process of exploring the data, splitting the data for model training and testing, preparing the data for NLP analysis, and training a deep NLP model to classify the reports as normal or abnormal. Concepts in NLP, such as tokenization, numericalization, language modeling, and word embeddings, are demonstrated in the module. The module is implemented in a guided fashion with the authors presenting the material and explaining concepts. Interactive features and extensive text commentary are provided directly in the notebook to facilitate self-guided learning and experimentation with the module. Keywords: Neural Networks, Negative Expression Recognition, Natural Language Processing, Computer Applications, Informatics © RSNA, 2021

As the idea of global citizenship grows stronger in a world with blurring borders, issues of social justice and international human rights should be available in the school library collection and alive in the curriculum. This paper reports findings on a study exploring the perceptions of preservice educators in using international literature to teach youth about international human rights. The 2013 Batchelder Honor title Son of a Gun (de Graaf, 2012), translated from the Dutch into English, tells the story of a young brother and sister forced to become child soldiers during the Liberian civil war of the 1990s. Study participants enrolled in a masters level course in the United States read the title and the United Nations’ Declaration of the Rights of the Child (1959) and then participated in group literature circles to apply the DRC to Son of a Gun and discuss teaching international human rights to youth.

Sickle-cell disease (SCD) is a debilitating hematological disorder with very few approved treatment options. Therapeutic reactivation of fetal hemoglobin (HbF) is one of the most pursued methods for ameliorating the systemic manifestations of SCD. Despite this, very few pharmacological agents have advanced to clinical trials or marketing for use. In this study, we report the development of an HbF in situ intracellular immunoblot assay coupled to a high-throughput drug screen to identify Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved drugs that can be repurposed clinically for treatment of SCD. Using this assay we evaluated the National Institute of Health (NIH) Clinical Collection (NCC), a publicly available library of 725 small molecules, and found nine candidates that can significantly re-express HbF in erythroid cell lines as well as primary erythroblasts derived from SCD patients. Furthermore, we show the strong effects on HbF expression of these candidates to occur with minimal cytotoxicity in 7 of the 9 drugs. Given these data and their proven history of use for other indications, we hypothesize that several of these candidate drugs warrant further investigation for use in SCD.

Discovery services have evolved to include not just books and articles, but databases, website content, research guides, digital and audiovisual collections, and unique local collections that are all important for their users to be able to find. Search and ranking remain at the core of discovery, but advanced tools such as recommendation, virtual browse, ‘look inside‘, and the use of artificial intelligence are also becoming more prevalent. This group of panelists discussed how content in their discovery systems can change based on the context of the user, using as examples Primo and Blacklight, and how content is populated, discovered and requested by users through differing customizations and workflows. The session also explored what tools are available today or may become available in the coming years that may be used to highlight different collections and material types in a library discovery system. As this topic impacts many stakeholders—libraries who need to make content discoverable and satisfy the needs of their users, content providers who want to make sure that their content is visible and used, and discovery providers who need to develop their systems to support the changing needs—the panelists posed questions to the audience to encourage conversation around the challenges they face with making their unique content collections discoverable and to share solutions.

Background: To gain an insight on dyslipidemia from ancient and contemporary viewpoint and to study the modus operandi of a classical Unani anti-obesity pharmacopeial formulation SM (Safoof e Muhazzil) in its management. Hypothesis/Purpose: In Unani medicine as all kinds of excessive fats whether lipids or body fats accumulated in obesity are linked together through the concept of Baroodat (excessive coldness) of Liver, leading to deranged metabolism of fats and their abnormal accumulation. Hence same type of management should perhaps work in both the conditions. Study design: The literature was collected from electronic resources such as databases of Science direct, Web of Science, Google, PubMed, Google Scholar, Research gate, EMBASE and Elsevier along with main resource libraries having collection of Unani books and manuscripts were searched for the relevant material available on the topic. Methods: Studies evaluating either pharmacological or therapeutic potential of Safoof e Muhazzil were admitted whether in vivo or in vitro. No restrain of time period of the studies conducted was observed during the research. Results: Dyslipidemia, a disorder of lipoprotein roots from errant metabolism and lifestyle which causes an increase in the oily substance in the blood leading to dyslipidemic plethora. The Unani scholars advise the use of desiccant regimens together with lifestyle management. SM is the drug of choice for obesity. Recent in vitro and in vivo studies have proved it to be highly significant (p

There is a trend among academic libraries to increase collaboration between interlibrary loan and collection development to improve patron access to materials and build library collections. Instead of borrowing returnable materials, interlibrary loan may initiate purchases that will become part of the library's collection. This can mean anything from an organizational change combining interlibrary loan with the acquisitions unit or creating new workflows to facilitate purchasing. At the University of North Texas Libraries, the Interlibrary Loan office is a unit of the Access Services Department. Buying instead of borrowing for the ILL unit began with a Demand Driven Acquisitions (DDA) program and has expanded with the establishment of the University of North Texas Libraries' access-based collection development policy. Interlibrary Loan provides “Just-In-Time” (JIT) access to materials not available through regular interlibrary loan sources and adds relevant materials to the Libraries' collections.

The activities of the libraries on creation of the electronic information resources for culture and art are considered. The study was conducted on the basis of search and selection of information on the resources on the websites of 15 federal libraries. There were revealed 23 online resources created by the Russian State Library, the Russian National Library, the Russian State Art Library, the Russian State Library for Young Adults, the Russian State Children’s Library, the Scientific Pedagogical Library named after K.D. Ushinsky, the State Public Historical Library and the Russian State Library for the Blind. As a result of the research, it was revealed that the libraries currently to a greater extent provide information resources in traditional forms of presentation (card file, local database, printed publication), rather than in electronic form (remote open access resources). There prevail the resources of universal nature, including the resources for culture and art. Among the features there is noted the development of the new modern forms of presentation of resources in the form of virtual exhibitions, electronic collections, catalogues, that include digitized documents from library collections. Herewith, the documents are available both in the public domain and in the restricted access; and there is possible to acquaint with the document content in the reading rooms of libraries. On the basis of monitoring of libraries’ websites, it is made the conclusion on the need of intensification of activities to create specialized thematic resources for culture and art with the aim of further development of information culture and support of the information literacy of users, as well as for the professional competence of specialists.