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Main Author: Kania, Antoinette M.
Format: Recurso educativo Open Access
Language:en
Published: 1988
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Online Access:https://eric.ed.gov/?id=ED293540
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author Kania, Antoinette M.
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contents Performance Measures for Academic Libraries: A Twenty Year Retrospective. Kania, Antoinette M. Academic Libraries Evaluation Methods Higher Education Library Collections Library Research Library Services Library Standards Reference Services Use Studies Users (Information) Intended to provide a guide to the most useful, practical, and relevant methodologies developed and implemented over the past 20 years for assessing a library's effectiveness, this bibliography provides citations to 72 selected studies evaluating the use, collections, and services of academic libraries. The citations are organized into three major groups: (1) measures of access, use, and users, which include studies of book and periodical use, in-house use, book availability, document delivery, and the user; (2) measures of collection evaluation, including the variety of means available for assessing the breadth, scope, and quality of collections; and (3) measures of reference, including both obtrusive and unobtrusive studies assessing the volume, types, and quality of reference services. (EW)
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spellingShingle Performance Measures for Academic Libraries: A Twenty Year Retrospective.
Kania, Antoinette M.
Academic Libraries
Evaluation Methods
Higher Education
Library Collections
Library Research
Library Services
Library Standards
Reference Services
Use Studies
Users (Information)
Performance Measures for Academic Libraries: A Twenty Year Retrospective. Kania, Antoinette M. Academic Libraries Evaluation Methods Higher Education Library Collections Library Research Library Services Library Standards Reference Services Use Studies Users (Information) Intended to provide a guide to the most useful, practical, and relevant methodologies developed and implemented over the past 20 years for assessing a library's effectiveness, this bibliography provides citations to 72 selected studies evaluating the use, collections, and services of academic libraries. The citations are organized into three major groups: (1) measures of access, use, and users, which include studies of book and periodical use, in-house use, book availability, document delivery, and the user; (2) measures of collection evaluation, including the variety of means available for assessing the breadth, scope, and quality of collections; and (3) measures of reference, including both obtrusive and unobtrusive studies assessing the volume, types, and quality of reference services. (EW)
title Performance Measures for Academic Libraries: A Twenty Year Retrospective.
topic Academic Libraries
Evaluation Methods
Higher Education
Library Collections
Library Research
Library Services
Library Standards
Reference Services
Use Studies
Users (Information)
url https://eric.ed.gov/?id=ED293540