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Peer reviewedVan House, Nancy A. – Library and Information Science Research, 1986
Public library effectiveness efforts are placed within the context of theoretical and empirical research on organizational effectiveness. The construct, measures, and determinants of public library effectiveness are investigated, and a possible model of the determinants of public library output measures is presented. (Author/EM)
Descriptors: Demography, Library Research, Library Standards, Library Statistics
Peer reviewedMolyneux, Robert E. – Library and Information Science Research, 1986
Reviews studies done on academic library growth in attempt to clarify three reasons for failure of these analyses to result in usable projections of library size. Highlights include patterns in library growth (hypothetical exponential and arithmetic growth), Fremont Rider's studies of growth, and literature on growth after Rider. (28 references)…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Comparative Analysis, Futures (of Society), Higher Education
