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Direct linkThompson, Bruce; Cook, Colleen; Kyrillidou, Martha – portal: Libraries and the Academy, 2006
The LibQUAL+[TM] protocol solicits open-ended comments from users with regard to library service quality, gathers data on 22 core items, and, at the option of individual libraries, also garners ratings on five items drawn from a pool of more than 100 choices selected by libraries. In this article, the relationship of scores on these locally…
Descriptors: Libraries, Surveys, Library Services, User Satisfaction (Information)
Reliability and Validity of SERVQUAL Scores Used To Evaluate Perceptions of Library Service Quality.
Download full textThompson, Bruce; Cook, Colleen – 2000
Research libraries are increasingly supplementing collection counts with perceptions of service quality as indices of status and productivity. The present study was undertaken to explore the reliability and validity of scores from the SERVQUAL measurement protocol (A. Parasuraman and others, 1991), which has previously been used in this type of…
Descriptors: Evaluation Methods, Higher Education, Library Services, Measurement Techniques
Cook, Colleen; Thompson, Bruce – 2000
The SERVQUAL measure was developed by A. Parasuraman, L. Berry, and V. Zeithaml (1988) to measure perceptions of service quality, originally in the retailing sector. However, libraries and other educational institutions are also service providers. Librarians in particular have increasingly become interested in measuring quality of service as the…
Descriptors: Evaluation Methods, Factor Analysis, Library Services, Measurement Techniques
Thompson, Bruce; Cook, Colleen; Kyrillidou, Martha – Journal of Academic Librarianship, 2005
The present study investigated the validity of LibQUAL+[TM] scores, and specifically how total and subscale LibQUAL+[TM] scores are associated with self-reported, library-related satisfaction and outcomes scores. Participants included 88,664 students and faculty who completed the American English (n[AE] = 69,494) or the British English (n[BE] =…
Descriptors: Higher Education, College Students, College Faculty, Test Validity
Peer reviewedCook, Colleen; Thompson, Bruce – Library Trends, 2001
Investigated the psychometric integrity of scores from the LibQUAL+ evaluation of perceived library service quality conducted by ARL (Association of Research Libraries). Examines score structure, score reliability, score correlation and concurrent validity coefficients, scale means, and scale standardized norms, and considers the potential of the…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Concurrent Validity, Correlation, Evaluation Methods
