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Hammad Rauf Khan – ProQuest LLC, 2021
This study applies the knowledge, skills, and abilities (KSA) framework for eScience professionals to data service positions in academic libraries. Understanding the KSAs needed to provide data services is of crucial concern. The current study looks at KSAs of data professionals working in the United States academic libraries. An exploratory…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Data Science, Professional Personnel, Job Skills
Susan B. Mythen – ProQuest LLC, 2020
The purpose of this dissertation is to examine the use of data for assessing library collection utilization, to explore what tools are available to help guide purchasing decisions, and to create a blueprint for applying percentage-based allocation formulas to community college library collection budgets. Because there is little literature on…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Academic Libraries, Library Materials, Library Services
Burns, C. Sean – ProQuest LLC, 2013
Soon after the university movement started in the late 1800s, academic libraries became the dominant providers of the tools and services required to locate and access scholarly information. However, with the advent of alternate discovery services, such as Google Scholar, in conjunction with open access scholarly content, researchers now have the…
Descriptors: Scholarship, Access to Information, Documentation, Academic Libraries
Shupala, Christine M. – ProQuest LLC, 2012
Academic and library administrators are increasingly required to demonstrate efficiency in programs, services, and operations as well as effectiveness. An important component of efficiency measurement is identification of a relevant peer group against which to compare the administrative unit to determine relative efficiency. The two-fold purpose…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Efficiency, Higher Education, Data Analysis
Haley, Daniel Joseph – ProQuest LLC, 2010
The circulation records from 1997/98 to 2007/08 for UCLA and from 2000/01 to 2007/08 for Pasadena City College (PCC) were analyzed to examine patterns in the use of print materials during a period of increasingly available online digital information resources. The analysis included examinations of longitudinal circulation patterns broken down by…
Descriptors: Library Materials, Academic Libraries, Comparative Analysis, Library Services
Matusiak, Krystyna K. – ProQuest LLC, 2010
The use of information resources for teaching and learning in an academic environment is undergoing a dramatic transformation. The development of digital technologies and the growth of the Internet have changed the format as well as the dissemination methods of scholarly resources. Digital libraries have been created as part of the transition from…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Linguistics, Interdisciplinary Approach, Interaction