Library Instruction Assessment in Academic Libraries

Academic Library Instruction Using the WWW

Book Availability: Academic Library Assessment

In the climate of increasing calls for academic assessment, the authors undertook a study to ascertain book availability in an academic library. The study described here uses the methodology pioneered by Tefko Saracevic, W. M. Shaw, Jr., and Paul Kantor and is a follow-up of earlier research reported in College & Research Libraries in 1987. The authors designed the study to identify any improve...

Applying DEA Technique to Library Evaluation in Academic Research Libraries

INCREASINGLY, their use of resources IBRARIES A R E ASKED T O JUSTIFY in terms of producing meaningful services and impacts to the users and the parent organizations. This study applied an analytical technique called Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) to calculate the relative technical efficiency of ninety-five academic research libraries that are members of the Association of Research Libraries....

Library Hi Tech Electronic books: challenges for academic libraries

Introduction This paper, based on three recent research projects, addresses some of the issues that are central to the acceptance and integration of electronic scholarly monographs and textbooks (henceforth referred to as e-monographs) into the academic library. The findings suggest that the almost casual use of terms like 'digital library' and 'hybrid library' belies the reality of a slow acce...

Brawling in the Library: Gaming Programs for Impactful Outreach and Instruction at an Academic Library

LIBRARY TRENDS, Vol. 61, No. 4, 2013 (“The Impact of Gaming on Libraries,” edited by Scott Nicholson), pp. 802–813. © 2013 The Board of Trustees, University of Illinois Abstract Academic libraries not only need to focus on instructing students about library resources but also need to actively reach out to them. One way to accomplish this is to integrate gaming into library programming and instr...