Academic Libraries - The Dimensions of Their Effectiveness

This book offers a completely new approach to the measurement of academic library effectiveness. Based on a significant empirical investigation, it contradicts established practices such as the measurement of outputs as indicators of effectiveness and the tendency to focus the evaluation of library effectiveness on the success of isolated activities. The book also explores in detail the fundamental inadequacy of library-based bibliographic instruction and information-seeking skills development. It argues that a student learns in order to become information literate and does not become information literate in order to learn. In so doing, it challenges much of the accepted wisdom in libraries and information technology.

Table des matières

Introduction
Library Effectiveness: A Review
Library Effectiveness: A New Approach
Assessing Organizational Effectiveness
Criteria for Assessing Academic Library Organizational Effectiveness
Research Methodology
Results and Discussion
The Grail of Library Goodness
Libraries and Information
Bibliography
Appendix 1: Effectiveness Criteria
Appendix 2: Questionnaire
Appendix 3: Questionnaire Items Keyed to Effectiveness Criteria
Appendix 4: Sample Characteristics
Appendix 5: Statistical Analysis
Appendix 6: Variables Comprising Major and Minor Factors
Appendix 7: Domains: Their Dimensions and Variables

A propos de l'auteur

Joseph McDonald, Lynda B Micikas

Détails du produit

• Auteurs: Joseph McDonald, McDonald Joseph, Basney Micikas, Lynda B Micikas, Lynda B. Micikas, Lynda Basney Micikas
• Edition: Bloomsbury
• Langues: Anglais
• Format d'édition: Livre Relié
• Sortie: 23.03.1994
• EAN: 9780313272691
• ISBN: 978-0-313-27269-1
• Thèmes: New Directions in Information; New Directions in Information
• Catégories: Sciences sociales, droit, économie > Médias, communication > Librairies, bibliothèques; Information technology industries, Library & information services, Library and information services, Higher & further education, tertiary education, Higher education, tertiary education, EDUCATION / Schools / Levels / Higher, Librarianship: Philosophy, Values, and Issues