Annual library statistical information forms on operating expenditures, salary data submitted to Ontario Council of University Libraries (OCUL) and a survey of Health Sciences Libraries from National Resource Council of Canada (NRC) Institute for Scientific and Technical Information (CISTI). Also includes Statistics Canada, Education, Science and Culture Division Survey of University and College Libraries Academic Year 1980-81 or fiscal year 1980-81.
Pamphlets on Northern Training Opportunities Program (NORTOP) and Ontario Work Study Program (OWSP).
Booklet on CAUT Policies concerning librarians by Committee March, 1989.
Canadian Association of University Teachers Association (CAUT) Librarians’ Conference, February 29 to March 2, 1996, Chateau Champlain, Montreal Quebec package.
Agenda and meeting minutes of OCUL. Various topics include project reports on Co-operative union serials system (CUSS), Inter-University Borrowing Project (IUBP), resources sharing, Academic journal project, Data Liberation, cooperative funding opportunities and library collections. Also includes correspondence on Special meeting on Virtual Library Project, Joint Council of Ontario Libraries (COU)/OCUL Project : Libraries and Collaborative Access to Electronic Resources.
Correspondence regarding Ask a Librarian service library participation, funding model, goals, internships and operating costs.
Two bound booklets on OCUL statistics, June 1994 and August 1995 and Lakehead University librarian salary ranges 1992-93. Also includes correspondence on the CARL Canadian Association of Research Libraries of questionnaire.
Correspondence on more frequent updates to CUSS list and survey and cheque requisitions for CUSS production and SOUL database. Also includes Canada Institute for Scientific and Technical Information (CISTI) commitments and OCUL transfer of duties memo.
These are the records of the Chief Librarian (University Librarian) of Lakehead University (Lakehead Technical Institute, Lakehead College of Arts, Science, and Technology.)
The records document the management and administration of the Lakehead University Library, including the construction of the Library building, policies, acquisitions, staffing, and more. Correspondence provides insight into the workings of the library during a period of library and academic expansion, computerization and transition.
The Chief Librarian had a significant role as a member of University administration, and participated on Faculty Council, Senate, and numerous committees. Records here reflect those bodies and their work throughout this time period, including proposed and new programs, enrollment, new construction, governance, and long range planning.
The Library's role in partnership with other organizations provincially, nationally, and internationally is also represented. Many libraries were adopting new technologies at this time, which allowed for more communications and cooperation, on projects including computerized cataloguing and inter-library loan.
The time period covered in these records includes major developments and changes within Lakehead University, and in the cultures and technologies of universities and libraries.
Correspondence on visiting lecturers for School of Library Technology, library purchases, donations, outstanding invoices, tours, cheque requisitions and external borrowing privileges. Also includes Lakehead theses and their inclusion into National Library yearly list.
Questionnaires and surveys on library policies and procedures. Annual reports of University and College Libraries from the Dominion Bureau of Statistics, Ottawa are included.
Correspondence on staff vacation, and staff lists, job evaluation survey/study, payroll, department memos, parking facilities, position classifications according to Canadian Association of College & University Libraries. Also includes booklet on Collective Agreement between Lakehead University and Office and Professional Employees International Union (OPEIU) Local 81 and a Library Readers' Guide, 1967 and 1968-1969 and a report on pension, group life and salary continuance plan for Lakehead College of Arts, Science & Technology.
Varied materials on library building surveys, academic status, 1972 Canadian Association of College and University Libraries (CACUL) salary and budget survey, 1969 and study on guidelines for the development of resources and services in academic libraries in Canada. Also includes booklet entitled Resources of Canadian Academic and Research Libraries, 1967.
List of task force #1 Government documents, letter re: employment interviews with B.I.S. students, 1969.
Special events such as athletic activity night, Oktoberfest and United Way plus pay dates, moves, alterations and lockers. Memos on summer hours, evening duty staff, holidays, library security and expansion of the library
Book budgets 1971 to 1974 for various departments, allocations and sub-allocations , memos regarding the increase in cost of journals, budget transfers and new telephone budget procedures.
Memos and notes of meetings on library related issues such as staffing, library operations, expansion and the selection of a new Chief Librarian.
Memos related to library equipment, orientation, tours, external borrowers, funds-raising and School of Library Technology practice work schedules for technicians. Also includes a mock-up of a Student’s Guide for Spring Term (May 9 - June 26, 1973).
Issues of Lakehead University News Release, 1966 -67 and memos on the official opening of the Library (October 27, 1966).
Letters external and internal regarding tattle-tape book detection strips and book thief detection system used by other universities. Vendor information is also included plus a paper on Measuring and Reducing Library book losses.
Donation letters.
Library representative from School of Forestry request for serial subscriptions, School of Forestry embarks upon the master’s program and regulations relating to undergraduate thesis requirements. Memos on further access to forestry literature especially on microfiche, library resources for forestry and proposed brief of Graduate Studies in Forestry to Ontario Council on Graduate Studies (OCGS).
Correspondence on the manuscript, Bibliography of Published Writings of Dr. Harry G. Johnson, 1979 which corrects and fully supplements the previous bibliography. Letters regarding the publication, order forms and related issues are also included.
Letters regarding donations and acquisitions. Also includes Survey out-of-print Program for Monographs by Robert Van Den Berg, Acquisitions Librarian, Sir George Williams University, 1969
Notes on meeting with librarians regarding, Recommendations concerning the acquisitions and processing of book and non-book materials, presented by Lenora Aedy and Brent Scollie March 21 & 29th. This document was presented for consideration to the Senate Library Committee.