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Direct linkAbilock, Debbie, Ed. – Knowledge Quest, 2007
Professionally, school librarians are faced with an explosion of choices--search engines, online catalogs, media types, subscription databases, and Web tools--all requiring scrutiny, evaluation, and selection. In turn, this support "stuff" forms a basis for making additional choices about how and what they teach and what they assess. Whereas once…
Descriptors: Information Literacy, Library Services, School Libraries, Library Role
Peer reviewedMartyn, John; Cronin, Blaise – Journal of Documentation, 1983
Report on study to consider ways in which research effectiveness could be assessed outlines possible approaches (cost-benefit assessment, citation analysis, publications, real-time tracking study, case study, take-up survey, audience research panel, penetration study). Appropriateness of approaches is discussed in relation to projects funded by…
Descriptors: Classification, Evaluation Methods, Foreign Countries, Library Research
Peer reviewedEdmonds, M. Leslie – Library Trends, 1987
Improvement in the research climate in children's librarianship is needed. There must be a determined demand for research, financial and job support for researchers, improvement in the research techniques for studying children, and implementation of actual research projects. Particular concerns include research on reading, school/public library…
Descriptors: Accountability, Cooperative Programs, Library Research, Program Evaluation
Peer reviewedBecker, Karen A. – Research Strategies, 1993
Describes a program of Library Research Clinics developed at Northern Illinois University to teach bibliographic instruction (BI) to one or two students at a time as an alternative to teaching BI in large first-year English classes. Implementation of the clinics with educationally disadvantaged students and with honor students is reviewed.…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Academically Gifted, College Freshmen, Educationally Disadvantaged
Oberhauser, O.; Wurzl, R. – 1982
This report describes the library instruction program at the Technische Universitaet Wien (Technical University of Vienna) in Austria and proposes various program improvements, which are based in part on the results of a 1979 survey of over 2,600 faculty and students. An overview of the present state-of-the-art of library user education and…
Descriptors: College Libraries, Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Instructional Materials
Peer reviewedMiller, Constance; And Others – RQ, 1985
Seven articles on library reference services highlight reference obsolescence in academic libraries, major studies of unobtrusive reference tests, methods for evaluating reference desk performance, reference interview evaluation, problems of reference desk control, online searching by end users, and reference collection development in…
Descriptors: Interviews, Librarians, Library Administration, Library Collection Development
