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Direct linkAhmad, Pervaiz; Brogan, Mark – Australian Academic & Research Libraries, 2012
From a fledgling technology with no proven business models, electronic books (e-books) have grown in importance usurping traditional formats as an acquisitions budget line in many academic library contexts. Business models include purchase, subscription, and pay per use. In academic and research libraries, web based e-book delivery is the dominant…
Descriptors: Educational Environment, Academic Libraries, Research Libraries, Foreign Countries
Buchter, Holli – Knowledge Quest, 2013
In this article St. Vrain Valley (CO) School District (SVVSD) librarian, Holli Buchter describes what took place in the school libraries in the district when the newest elementary school, Red Hawk, opened its doors. Red Hawk asked and answered the question: "Is the Dewey Decimal Classification system still the best way for students to locate…
Descriptors: Elementary Schools, School Libraries, Library Development, Library Materials
Kenney, Brian – Library Journal, 2002
Discusses digital reference services, also known as virtual reference, chat reference, or online reference, based on a round table discussion at the 2002 American Library Association annual conference in Atlanta. Topics include numbers and marketing; sustainability; competition and models; evaluation methods; outsourcing; staffing and training;…
Descriptors: Competition, Conferences, Evaluation Methods, Futures (of Society)
Peer reviewedGoudy, Frank William – Library Quarterly, 1982
Presents the results of a study conducted to determine the allocation of general revenue sharing funds to libraries from 1973 through 1977 and to estimate the impact of these funds on library budgets around the country. Data are summarized in 6 tables and a reference list is included. (Author/JL)
Descriptors: Budgets, Federal Government, Federal Legislation, Financial Support
Download full textKuo, Ming-Ming Shen – 1992
A local model for support of periodic academic program reviews by the Indiana Commission for Higher Education (ICHE) has developed and evolved at the Ball State University library. The process of devising a format to systematically report library holdings statistics to support program reviews and other collections development duties began in 1975;…
Descriptors: Accreditation (Institutions), College Libraries, Evaluation Methods, Expenditures
Shim, Wonsik; Kantor, Paul B. – Proceedings of the ASIS Annual Meeting, 1998
Describes a new analytical tool, data envelope analysis (DEA) model, which can provide better understanding of the efficiency of academic research libraries. Reports the results of a study using 1994-1995 Association of Research Libraries statistics together with expert judgments, in terms of constraints, to make the model more applicable to the…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Cost Effectiveness, Data Analysis, Evaluation Criteria
Peer reviewedExon, F. C. A.; Punch, Keith F. – Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 1997
This study tested assumptions about self-sufficiency of academic library collections and the paradigm shift to providing access to information stored elsewhere. Inter-library borrowing statistics of Australian libraries were correlated with collection size. The study concluded that collection self-sufficiency is a fallacy and that the information…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Access to Information, Foreign Countries, Higher Education
