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The Dimensions of Their Effectiveness
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The Dimensions of Their Effectiveness
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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 of Contents
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
Product details
| Published | Mar 23 1994 |
|---|---|
| Format | Hardback |
| Edition | 1st |
| Extent | 208 |
| ISBN | 9780313272691 |
| Imprint | Praeger |
| Dimensions | 235 x 156 mm |
| Series | New Directions in Information Management |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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