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Ensor, Pat; And Others – Library Administration & Management, 1988
Description of the process of developing a five-year strategic planning document for the Indiana State University Libraries covers data gathering from a variety of printed sources, staff reports, and interviews with faculty; conceptualizing document content; writing; and editing. A questionnaire for teaching faculty is appended. (10 references)…
Descriptors: College Libraries, Data Collection, Higher Education, Library Administration
Edelman, Hendrik; Hazen, Dan C. – 1979
This report describes the aspirations and inspirations as well as the data collection and analyses which constituted the first phase of activity under the Mellon Foundation grant to examine collection development and management at Cornell. The emphasis is mainly on analytical and planning processes rather than specific results during this first…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, College Libraries, Data Analysis, Data Collection
Davenport, Cynthia A. – 1977
A document retrieval study conducted before and again after the building of a more centralized library at Syracuse University is used as an example of the kind of data gathering which can lead to improved decision making and evaluation of library services by library administrators. The study is discussed in detail to facilitate replication and to…
Descriptors: Centralization, College Libraries, Data Collection, Decision Making
Download full textBurns, Robert W., Jr. – 1975
A study was conducted to inventory and describe the quantitative performance measures of an academic library system which originate as a result of the activities at an automated loan desk. Visits were made to 24 academic libraries whose experience in library automation ranged from the completely on-line system with user self service and in-house…
Descriptors: College Libraries, Computer Oriented Programs, Data Collection, Library Administration
United States Bureau of Education, Department of the Interior, 1915
Special statistical reports on public, society, and school libraries have been published periodically by the United States Bureau of Education. Nine of these reports have appeared in the past 40 years, the last one, preceding the present 1913 report, presented the statistics of 1908. The earlier reports included the names of all libraries…
Descriptors: Statistical Data, School Libraries, Library Schools, Public Libraries
Schwarz, Philip; Olson, Linda – 1981
This study was conducted to fulfill two objectives: to gather the data necessary to define the core collection, i.e., a subset of the holdings that can be identified with reasonable assurance as being able to fulfill a certain predetermined percentage of the future demand on the present collection, and to examine the value of these data as a…
Descriptors: Classification, College Libraries, Data Analysis, Data Collection
Sutton, Michael J.; Black, John B. – 1976
More effective use of diminishing resources was needed to provide the best possible services at the University of Guelph (Ontario, Canada) library. This required the improved decision-making processes of a Library Management Information System (LMIS) to provide systematic information analysis. An information flow model was created, and an…
Descriptors: Cataloging, College Libraries, Data Collection, Decision Making
