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Peer reviewedHayes, Robert M; And Others – Library and Information Science Research, An International Journal, 1983
Explores alternative measures--Ph.D.s produced by the institution, number of faculty, number of interlibrary loans, number of publications attributable to the institution--to be used to test applicability to research libraries of the Cobb-Douglas production function, which relates three variables--production, labor, and capital investment.…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Higher Education, Library Associations, Mathematical Models
Budig, Jeanne E.; Stubbs, Kenneth L. – 1984
Information on the Association of Research Libraries (ARL) data survey is presented, along with a quantitative index for the university libraries of the Association of American Universities (AAU). Ten quantitative measures of holdings, expenditures, and staff size for the AAU libraries from the 1981-1982 annual ARL survey are converted to an index…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, College Libraries, Comparative Analysis, Higher Education
Lawrence, Gary S.; And Others – 1982
This document outlines the methodology to be used for analyzing and reporting data collected through questionnaires at the various libraries of the University of California in April and May of 1982, as the second phase of an online public access catalog (OPAC) evaluation project. It is noted that the project was designed to enable systems…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Data Analysis, Evaluation Methods, Higher Education
