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Direct linkLyons, Ray; Lance, Keith Curry – Library Journal, 2010
The "LJ" Index of Public Library Service 2010, "Library Journal"'s national rating of public libraries, identifies 258 "star" libraries. Created by Ray Lyons and Keith Curry Lance, and based on 2008 data from the IMLS, it rates 7,407 public libraries. The top libraries in each group get five, four, or three stars. All included libraries, stars or…
Descriptors: Public Libraries, Library Services, Internet, Data Collection
Jacso, Peter – Library Journal, 2009
In the journal "The Chronicle of Higher Education," an article by Geoffrey Nunberg criticizes Google's Book Search (GBS), emphasizing that disturbing errors are endemic. He recognizes that for mainstream "googling" purposes, "they don't really care about metadata provided by a library catalog." In perhaps his most discouraging point, linguistics…
Descriptors: Online Searching, Search Engines, Access to Information, Educational Research
Cummins, Caroline – Library Journal, 2006
In this article, the author discusses the benefits offered by integrated library systems (ILS) for making more informed decisions. Library software vendors, realizing ILS products can reveal business intelligence, have begun to offer tools like Director's Station to help library managers get more out of their data, and librarians are taking…
Descriptors: Information Systems, Data Analysis, Library Administration, Information Management
