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Rodriguez-Lesmes, Paul; Trujillo, Jose Daniel; Valderrama, Daniel – World Bank, 2015
This paper analyzes the relation between public, education-related infrastructure and the quality of education in schools. The analysis uses a case study of the establishment of two large, high-quality public libraries in low-income areas in Bogotá, Colombia. It assesses the impact of these libraries on the quality of education by comparing…
Descriptors: Public Libraries, Library Role, Foreign Countries, Case Studies
Bikson, Tora K.; Kalra, Nidhi; Galway, Lionel A.; Agnew, Grace – RAND Corporation, 2011
The National Science Foundation's (NSF) National Science Digital Library/Distributed Learning (NSDL) program turned 10 years old in 2010. This report presents results of a preliminary program evaluation carried out by RAND and is organized around three principal goals: (1) Provide an initial evaluation of NSDL based on existing information…
Descriptors: Electronic Libraries, STEM Education, Program Evaluation, Formative Evaluation
Abouserie, Hossam Eldin Mohamed Refaat – Online Submission, 2007
The purpose of this study was to explore and investigate the ways faculty at the Graduate School of Library and Information Science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign use Networked Information Sources and Services to support their research task. Library and Information Sciences faculty at the University of Illinois were chosen as…
Descriptors: Information Science Education, Search Engines, Questionnaires, Directories