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A set of standards for a specific organization is often known as "house style". Style guides are common for general and specialized use, for the general reading and writing audience, and for students and scholars of various academic disciplines, medicine, journalism, the law, government, business, and industry.
The Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition (SPARC) is an international alliance of academic and research libraries developed by the Association of Research Libraries in 1998 which promotes open access to scholarship. [1] The coalition currently includes some 800 institutions [1] in North America, Europe, Japan, China and Australia.
These guidelines asserted that, "members of the distance learning community are entitled to library resources equivalent to those provided for students and faculty in traditional campus settings". [2] July 1, 2008, the ACRL Board of Directors approved the "Standards for Distance Learning Library Services". [3] The Standards are divided into two ...
Voting members elect Directors and comment and vote on standards. [5] The "Library Standards Alliance" included 135 members, primarily university and large public libraries. [2] Library members receive free access to NISO webinars. [6] Todd Carpenter was appointed Executive Director of NISO in 2006. [7]
The Library Bill of Rights is the American Library Association's statement expressing the rights of library users to intellectual freedom and the expectations the association places on libraries to support those rights. The Association's Council has adopted a number of interpretations of the document applying it to various library policies.
ARL member libraries make up a large portion of the academic and research library marketplace, spending approximately $4.5 billion every year on information resources and actively engaging in the development of new models of scholarly communications.
The International Standard Identifier for Libraries and Related Organisations (ISIL), ISO 15511, assigns unique identifiers to libraries and related organisations, such as archives and museums. [ 1 ] The Danish Agency for Culture and Palaces is the international authority for maintaining the standard and its registry.
Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules (AACR) were an international library cataloging standard.First published in 1967 and edited by C. Sumner Spalding, [1] a second edition (AACR2) edited by Michael Gorman and Paul W. Winkler was issued in 1978, with subsequent revisions (AACR2R) appearing in 1988 and 1998; all updates ceased in 2005.