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Jestes, Edward C. – 1974
Librarians store, protect, and provide the knowledge our modern society needs, but it is frequently difficult to justify the services a reference librarian provides. The work load of a reference librarian varies greatly with periods of frantic activity separated by much longer inactive periods. The role is principally passive, waiting for library…
Descriptors: Information Sources, Librarians, Libraries, Library Expenditures
Hershfield, Allan F., Ed.; Boone, Morell D., Ed. – 1972
A symposium was held in 1971 at Syracuse University on the topic of measuring library effectiveness. The first speaker, Allen Hershfield, introduced the topic with emphasis on the importance and critical need for measurements of library effectiveness. The next speaker, Ernest DeProspo, was concerned with methodological problems and the relation…
Descriptors: Conferences, Librarians, Libraries, Library Expenditures
Download full textSchure, Alexander – 1974
University administrators must not fail to consider the increasingly sophisticated library technology when making administrative and budgetary decisions about college libraries. The declining traditional student enrollment combined with an expansion of continuing education means that the role of the central compus library must be reconsidered. The…
Descriptors: College Administration, College Libraries, Educational Technology, Information Needs
Wills, Gordon; Oldman, Christine – 1974
The purpose of the investigation is to identify an operationally viable research methodology for assessing the value derived from selected library services at Cranfield Institute (England) and to evaluate and comment on the costs of providing such value. Four population groups are critical in the development of the expected value of library…
Descriptors: Administrator Education, College Libraries, Cost Effectiveness, Engineering Education
Mosley, Isobel – 1974
A general methodology for cost effectiveness analysis was developed and applied to the Colorado State University library loan desk. The cost effectiveness of the existing semi-automated circulation system was compared with that of a fully manual one, based on the existing manual subsystem. Faculty users' time and computer operating costs were…
Descriptors: College Libraries, Cost Effectiveness, Data Collection, Librarians
Peer reviewedStern, David – Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 2003
Discusses questions to consider as chemistry libraries develop new information storage and retrieval systems. Addresses new integrated tools for data manipulation that will guarantee access to information; differential pricing and package plans and effects on libraries' budgeting; and the changing role of the librarian. (LRW)
Descriptors: Access to Information, Budgeting, Chemistry, Information Retrieval
