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Texas State Library, Austin. Dept. of Library Development. – 1986
Designed to provide librarians, library administrators, and other interested persons with information organized to facilitate comparisons of libraries within the same library system, with comparable service populations, and with comparable expenditures, this publication contains information derived from the 1985 Annual Report/System Membership…
Descriptors: Data Analysis, Library Expenditures, Library Statistics, Public Libraries
Wilder, Stanley J. – 1995
This study by the Association of Research Libraries (ARL) draws from a variety of data sources, but it is based on two unpublished data sets. These data sets, compiled from ARL's 1990 and 1994 salary surveys, contain basic demographic data, including age, for librarians employed in ARL's 108 university member libraries. The study examines the…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Comparative Analysis, Data Analysis, Higher Education
Shim, Wonsik; Kantor, Paul B. – Proceedings of the ASIS Annual Meeting, 1998
Describes a new analytical tool, data envelope analysis (DEA) model, which can provide better understanding of the efficiency of academic research libraries. Reports the results of a study using 1994-1995 Association of Research Libraries statistics together with expert judgments, in terms of constraints, to make the model more applicable to the…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Cost Effectiveness, Data Analysis, Evaluation Criteria