Library Contribution to Accreditation, SPEC Kit 330 (September 2012)

Mercer, Holly: Maciel, Michael

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concern to libraries and librarians today. They are the result of a systematic survey of ARL member libraries on
a particular topic related to current practice in the field. Each SPEC Kit contains an executive summary of the
survey results survey questions with tallies and selected comments the best representative documents from
survey participants, such as policies, procedures, handbooks, guidelines, Web sites, records, brochures, and
statements and a selected reading list—both print and online sources—containing the most current literature
available on the topic for further study.
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for research and problem solving because they lend immediate authority to proposals and set standards for
designing programs or writing procedure statements. SPEC Kits also function as an important reference tool
for library administrators, staff, students, and professionals in allied disciplines who may not have access to
this kind of information.
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The executive summary for each kit after December 1993 can be accessed free of charge at http://www.arl.org/
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