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Krefman, Naomi, Comp.; Dwyer, Molly, Comp.; Krueger, Beth, Comp. – 2000
The 2000 edition of the Michigan Library Statistical Report presents data provided by public libraries, library cooperatives and those public libraries that serve as regional or subregional outlets for providing services to blind and physically handicapped patrons. All legally established public libraries in Michigan were invited to respond. Data…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Library Automation, Library Collections, Library Expenditures
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Paine, Nancy E.; Ward, John – Journal of Library Administration, 1996
Compares interlibrary loan data from a 1995 survey of Greater Midwest Research Library Consortium and Association of Research Libraries members with a 1989 survey. Shows an increase in transaction to staff ratio and a negative correlation between transaction to staff ratio and lending fill rate. Relates factors affecting productivity, such as…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Document Delivery, Higher Education, Interlibrary Loans
Werking, Richard Hume – 1989
A study was conducted to examine library data and trends among a group of 42 liberal arts colleges known as the "Bowdoin List." Questionnaires were completed and returned by 35 of the colleges, and interviews were conducted with the library directors at 22 of the colleges. The first of 10 sections in this report presents the statistical…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Comparative Analysis, Higher Education, Library Automation
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Bassman, Keri; Lacampagne, Carole; Humes, Barbara; Korb, Roslyn – 1998
The Public Libraries Survey, with the cooperation of all 50 state library agencies, the District of Columbia, and the United States territories, provides statistics about income, operating expenditures, staffing, size of collection, circulation, interlibrary loans, hours of operation, electronic access, and other items. One popular use of these…
Descriptors: Childrens Libraries, Comparative Analysis, Interlibrary Loans, Library Automation
Adams, Chris – 2000
Throughout 1999 and 2000, 234 academic institutions in Canada--66 university libraries and 168 college libraries--were asked to respond to a survey of library services for off campus users. Previous surveys were conducted in 1984 and then again in 1988. It was felt that with the advent of the World Wide Web, increased levels of library automation,…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Access to Information, Comparative Analysis, Foreign Countries
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Krefman, Naomi, Comp.; Dwyer, Molly, Comp.; Krueger, Beth, Comp. – 1999
This statistical report on Michigan's libraries presents data provided by academic libraries, public libraries, public library cooperatives, and those public libraries that that serve as regional or subregional outlets to provide services for blind and physically handicapped patrons. For academic libraries, data are compiled from the 1998 academic…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Comparative Analysis, Higher Education, Internet
Palmer, Crescentia – 1976
A comparison of costs for computer-based searching of Psychological Abstracts and Educational Resources Information Center (ERIC) systems by the New York State Library at Albany was produced by combining data available from search request forms and from bills from the contract subscription service, the State University of New…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Computers, Cost Effectiveness, Costs