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Thorpe, Angie; Lukes, Ria; Bever, Diane J.; He, Yan – portal: Libraries and the Academy, 2016
In an age of assessment and accountability, academic libraries feel much pressure to prove their value according to new university measurements of student success. This study describes a methodology for how libraries may examine student interactions with services to assess whether library usage impacts student grade point averages (GPAs) and…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Academic Achievement, Success, Measurement
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