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Where Do We Go from Here? Informing Academic Library Staffing through Reference Transaction Analysis
Bishop, Bradley Wade; Bartlett, Jennifer A. – College & Research Libraries, 2013
This study conducted a systematic sample of every 70th reference transaction from over a three-year period and analyzed 1,852 reference transactions asked at an academic library system's fifteen face-to-face (f2f) service points as well as via telephone, e-mail, and chat. Findings indicate two-thirds of the total questions asked were…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Library Personnel, Reference Services, Library Services

Homer, Garth – Canadian Library Journal, 1986
Examines the characteristics of management information systems and their impact on decisions of senior library managers. The organizational feasibility of such systems is discussed in terms of four key components--economic, technical, structural, psychological--that are related to libraries in general and senior management decisions in particular.…
Descriptors: Administrators, Computer Oriented Programs, Decision Making, Library Administration

Runyon, Robert S. – College and Research Libraries, 1981
Identifies the lack of an effective comprehensive management information system (MIS) as one major impediment to effective library administration and outlines a proposal for the development of a system based on a total systems approach, which would be made available to subscriber libraries through a network system. Twenty-three references are…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Computer Oriented Programs, Cost Effectiveness, Decision Making