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Shill, Harold B. – College and Research Libraries, 1980
Reports the findings of a six-year West Virginia University study that tested the "direct access" debate in its main library after undergoing the transition from closed to open stacks. Circulation, book availability, and search and library-use statistics are provided, and their implications are discussed. (Author/JD)
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Library Circulation, Library Research, Tables (Data)
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Perk, Lawrence J.; Van Pulis, Noelle – College and Research Libraries, 1977
A study was conducted of periodical usage at the Education-Psychology Library, Ohio State University. The library's closed reserve system provided circulation data which were analyzed according to currency of usage and usage of specific titles. (Author)
Descriptors: Abstracting, Education, Indexing, Librarians
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Weil, S. – Special Libraries, 1979
A survey on the use of journals at the Soreq Nuclear Research Center Library was conducted to determine whether the allocation of the largest share of the total library budget to journal subscriptions is justified, and which journals are in low use and could thus be discontinued. The findings, including criteria developed for defining core…
Descriptors: Costs, Library Research, Library Surveys, Periodicals
Sullivan, Michael V.; And Others – Library Research, 1980
Reports findings of a study of the 10-year use of 334 biomedical journals in the Lane Medical Library of Stanford University Medical Center. Use and density of use (use/shelf space occupied) statistics are tabulated and a ranked list of the journals, by use and use-density, is appended. (JD)
Descriptors: Biomedicine, Library Research, Medical Libraries, Obsolescence
Lipetz, Ben-Ami – 1981
Based on data gathered during a full 5-day, 40-hour week of visiting time, this study determined various characteristics of visitors to the New York State Library (NYSL) main facility; e.g., traffic rates, user intent, and user status. Visitors exiting the library were counted, short interviews were conducted with 25 percent of the total visitors…
Descriptors: Interviews, Library Research, Library Surveys, Pedestrian Traffic
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Frost, Carolyn O. – Library Resources and Technical Services, 1989
Describes a citation analysis of journal articles dealing with online catalogs to determine patterns in subject content, date, publication format, authorship affiliation, type of authorship, and how the cited publication was used in the article. It is concluded that this literature has many characteristics of a scholarly literature and indicates…
Descriptors: Authors, Citation Analysis, Citations (References), Library Research
Survey and Marketing Services, Inc., Honolulu, HI. – 1977
Sample selection methodology and findings are described for a telephone survey of residents of the six Hawaiian Islands to identify library users and their characteristics as well as patterns of use. Findings are reported for demographic patterns of use, user and non-user attitudes, leisure time activities, levels of awareness and interests in…
Descriptors: Attitudes, Community Surveys, Library Facilities, Library Research
Hardesty, Larry – 1980
This study was conducted to determine the relationship between use of the academic library and the classroom program at DePauw University, a small, four-year liberal arts college. Recorded circulation from the three campus libraries for the second semester of 1975-76 was studied and related to such variables as declared academic major, academic…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Library Circulation, Library Research, Student Characteristics
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Kidston, James S. – Library Quarterly, 1985
This study develops a three-stage model of the question-answering process and investigates several potential sources of extraneous variability. Discussion includes implications of findings concerning what it means to "use" library materials and services, adverbs used as response category labels, and subject's responses as predictors of…
Descriptors: Adverbs, Library Research, Models, Questionnaires
Schrader, Alvin M. – Library Research, 1980
Describes how library decision-making was enhanced by a systematic study of patrons, services, and effectiveness based on the concept known as performance measures for public libraries. Improvements in the data gathering and analysis techniques are noted; also provided are survey instruments, examples of selected revised forms, and references. (SW)
Descriptors: Data Collection, Graphs, Library Research, Program Effectiveness
Gallup Organization, Inc., Princeton, NJ. – 1975
At the request of the Chief Officers of the State Library Agencies, the Gallup Organization, Inc. studied attitudes and behavior concerning the use of public libraries in America and reported their findings. In the first phase of this national survey, 1,561 adult men and women were asked their sources of information; the extent to which the…
Descriptors: Library Research, Library Role, Library Surveys, National Surveys
Prather, James E.; Clemons, Michael L. – 1981
This 1980 survey of 3,356 users of the Georgia State University library gathered data on user affiliation, library usage, frequency of usage, perceptions of library adequacy, usage by field of study, and user residential patterns. It was found that over half of the users are undergraduates, 29 percent are graduate students, and 14 percent are not…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Attitudes, Bibliographies, Higher Education
Cleaver, Betty – Media Management Journal, 1983
A study conducted to determine if integrated shelving in a curriculum resources center made a difference to users in terms of finding more resources and using more audiovisual aids found that audiovisual and print materials use seemed to be influenced less by integrated shelving than by ease of access. (MBR)
Descriptors: Educational Media, Higher Education, Library Collections, Library Research
Eisenberg, Michael B.; And Others – School Library Media Quarterly, 1993
Includes three articles about research in the school library media field: (1) "The State of Research Today" (Michael B. Eisenberg) (2) "Recent Trends in School Library Media Research" (Robert Grover and Susan G. Fowler); and (3) "Notes from ERIC" (Barbara Minor) provides references to 10 research overviews and…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Learning Resources Centers, Library Research, Media Specialists
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Tenopir, Carol; Read, Eleanor J. – Reference & User Services Quarterly, 2000
Discusses database usage data from a sample of 98 public libraries and library systems in the United States and Canada that revealed patterns of use. Results of the questionnaire used, which is appended, showed the number of workstations was statistically correlated with amount of use. (Author/LRW)
Descriptors: Correlation, Databases, Foreign Countries, Library Research
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