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Gaines, Ervin J.; Huttner, Marian A. – Drexel Library Quarterly, 1983
This article enumerates factors which created demand for fee-based information service (commercial databases, competition for proprietary information in business world, effectiveness of librarians) and relates experiences at two public libraries. Sources of business, value of advertising, techniques of selling, and hiring and deployment of staff…
Descriptors: Fees, Library Administration, Library Services, Public Libraries
Aversa, Elizabeth – Drexel Library Quarterly, 1981
Reviews some approaches to organizational effectiveness suggested by organizational theorists, reports on the applications of these theories in libraries, develops some hypotheses regarding the assessment of performance in libraries, and describes a model which synthesizes some of the approaches. A 52-item reference list is attached. (Author/JL)
Descriptors: Cost Effectiveness, Evaluation Criteria, Evaluation Methods, Institutional Evaluation
Broadbent, H. E., III – Drexel Library Quarterly, 1981
Provides a definition of the planning process drawing upon models from management science, outlines the steps library administrators should take in developing a planning program, and describes some of the recent planning processes for public libraries, school media centers, academic libraries, and special libraries. A reference list is provided.…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Elementary Secondary Education, Higher Education, Information Services
