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Approaches to Studying Public Library Networked Community Information Initiatives: A Review of the Literature and Overview of a Current Study.

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Pettigrew, Karen E.; Durrance, Joan C.; Vakkari, Pertti – Library & Information Science Research, 1999

Reviews current trends in the networked community information literature, including public library involvement, and discusses a present study for which multiple methods are being used to collect data from users, librarians, and service providers in three states. Particular attention is given to explaining use of theory specification to apply…

Descriptors: Community Information Services, Data Collection, Information Centers, Information Networks

Linking People to the Global Networked Society. Evaluation of the Online at PA Libraries Project: Public Access to the Internet through Public Libraries.

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McClure, Charles R.; Bertot, John Carlo – 1997

This report provides an evaluation of the Online at PA Libraries project which was initiated in the Fall of 1996 by the Pennsylvania Department of Education's Office of Commonwealth Libraries and the Schuylkill Intermediate Unit. The report documents that the following goals were accomplished: (1) provide public access to the Internet through…

Descriptors: Access to Information, Case Studies, Computer Networks, Data Collection

The Effect of Expanded Electronic Access to Periodical Literature on Library Users, Collections and Operations. Final Report of the OCAC Measurement and Evaluation Subcommittee, University of Illinois Library at Urbana-Champaign.

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Illinois Univ., Urbana. University Library. – 1993

In 1990, the Online Catalog Advisory Committee (OCAC) of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) charged a subcommittee with developing and implementing ways to measure the impact of the expanded online catalog on staff, users, collections, and library operations. The UIUC's online public access catalog, ILLINET (Illinois Library and…

Descriptors: Access to Information, College Libraries, College Students, Comparative Analysis