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Getz, Malcolm – College and Research Libraries, 1988
Describes a study that measured the benefits of an automated catalog and automated circulation system from the library user's point of view in terms of the value of time saved. Topics discussed include patterns of use, access time, availability of information, search behaviors, and the effectiveness of the measures used. (seven references)…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Cost Effectiveness, Library Automation, Library Circulation
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Shaw, Debora – Special Libraries, 1986
Indiana State Library staff were surveyed before automation planning and staff development committees were created to determine their reactions to automation and their expectations of online catalog and circulation system. Second survey a year later revealed more staff involvement and more positive attitudes than first study. Both questionnaires…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Employee Attitudes, Library Automation, Library Circulation
Weaver-Meyers, Pat; Winters, Jim – 1984
A user attitude survey was conducted in the main library at the University of Oklahoma before and after the opening of a new library wing which effectively doubled the size of the main library. At the time of the opening of the new wing, the circulation department began using a new computer system for circulation of the general collection. The…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Attitude Measures, Higher Education, Library Automation
Heise, George F. – 1984
This paper examines the barriers to cooperation among a group of librarians and trustees in the Bergen County Cooperative Library System (BCCLS) in New Jersey as the group explored the potential advantages of a cooperative automated circulation system. This network of public libraries shares reciprocal borrowing, direct access to borrowing, and…
Descriptors: Adoption (Ideas), Attitude Change, Interlibrary Loans, Interviews
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Alabi, G. A. – Information Processing and Management, 1985
Describes study of manual and experimental automated circulation systems in a university library in Nigeria. Data were collected for eight circulation activities in order to calculate the direct labor costs of circulating a book on each system. Automated system's book circulation costs were higher although direct labor costs were less. (MBR)
Descriptors: College Libraries, Comparative Analysis, Cost Effectiveness, Costs
Association of Research Libraries, Washington, DC. Office of Management Studies. – 1978
Resulting from the Association of Research Libraries' (ARL) 1975 survey on user services, this kit presents documentation on and discusses developments in physical access services--services which facilitate the actual delivery of information sources to the user--including circulation, interlibrary loan, book delivery, and new media services. As…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Higher Education, Information Needs, Interlibrary Loans
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Nofsinger, Mary M. – Journal of Academic Librarianship, 1988
Describes an exchange program between academic libraries in Sichuan Province and Washington State University, and discusses the Chinese approach to academic librarianship in the areas of management and personnel, access and circulation, automation, reference services, collection development and censorship, and library facilities. (CLB)
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Access to Information, Cataloging, Censorship