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Association of Research Libraries, Washington, DC. Office of Management Studies. – 1982
This group of documents presents material on collection development and a list of collection intensity indicators from the Research Libraries Group (RLG), as well as examples of collection assessment techniques from seven members of the Association of Research Libraries (ARL). ARL member documents cover the assessment of art periodical,…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Evaluation Methods, Higher Education, Library Acquisition
Download full textHall, Blaine H. – 1981
This manual is designed to help bibliographers, librarians, and other materials selectors plan and conduct systematic collection evaluations using both collection centered and client centered techniques. Topics covered in five chapters are: (1) planning the assessment; (2) collection-centered techniques, comprising the compilation of statistics,…
Descriptors: College Libraries, Data Analysis, Data Collection, Evaluation Methods
Peer reviewedRothstein, Samuel – Reference Librarian, 1989
Considers trends in measurement and evaluation of reference service and summarizes research findings on the importance of reference work, library clientele, reference questions, duties of the reference librarians, and the effectiveness of reference service. Measures for the organization and performance of reference work, the adequacy of reference…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Evaluation Methods, Higher Education, Library Collections
Peer reviewedBunge, Charles A. – Reference Librarian, 1999
Discusses the strengths and weaknesses of patrons and reference librarians as sources of data for the evaluation of the effectiveness of answers to reference questions. Describes the Wisconsin-Ohio Reference Evaluation program and considers staffing patterns, time spent, collection size, and bibliographic instruction. Reference Transaction…
Descriptors: Data Collection, Evaluation Methods, Librarians, Library Collections
Association of Research Libraries, Washington, DC. – 2002
The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) E-Metrics study was designed as an 18-month project in three phases: an inventory of what libraries were already doing about data collection for electronic resources and an identification of any libraries that could provide best practice; identifying and testing data elements that could be collected and…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Data Collection, Evaluation Criteria, Evaluation Methods
Peer reviewedRehman, Sajjad Ur; Bashir, Shaheena – International Information and Library Review, 1993
Describes a study conducted at Punjab University (Pakistan) that measured the rate of availability of documents needed by users based on Paul Kantor's model of availability analysis. Results are compared with four studies conducted in the United States using the same methodology, and factors related to document unavailability are discussed.…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Comparative Analysis, Developing Nations, Evaluation Methods
