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Robbins-Carter, Jane; Zweizig, Douglas L. – American Libraries, 1986
This fourth installment in five-lesson tutorial on library evaluation focuses on evaluation of library programs (short-lived activities designed to meet specific needs). Highlights include seven steps in planning cycle and sample programs (reducing library noise, long-term effects of library-use instruction). Five required and suggested readings…
Descriptors: Courses, Formative Evaluation, Library Administration, Library Instruction
Robbins-Carter, Jane; Zweizig, Douglas L. – American Libraries, 1986
This fifth and final lesson on library evaluation focuses on the evaluation of library personnel. Highlights include standards for comparison of employee's characteristics (ideal traits, productivity of other employees, job-related behavior), and Management By Objectives (involves mutual goal setting between manager and subordinate). Five required…
Descriptors: Courses, Library Administration, Library Personnel, Library Planning
Robbins-Carter, Jane; Zweizig, Douglas L. – American Libraries, 1985
This second in a five-lesson tutorial on library evaluation focuses on the evaluation of library collections. Highlights include the seven-step evaluation process described in lesson one; quantitative methods (total size, unfilled requests, circulation, turnover rate); and qualitative methods (impressionistic, list-checking). One required and…
Descriptors: Courses, Formative Evaluation, Library Circulation, Library Collection Development
Robbins-Carter, Jane; Zweizig, Douglas L. – American Libraries, 1985
The first of five lessons in a tutorial on library evaluation from "American Libraries" and the University of Wisconsin/Madison School of Library and Information Studies includes instructions on how to earn a Certificate of Completion. A generalized evaluation model is presented and related to the planning process in libraries. (EJS)
Descriptors: Courses, Evaluation Methods, Formative Evaluation, Library Planning
Robbins-Carter, Jane; Zweizig, Douglas L. – American Libraries, 1985
This third in five-lesson tutorial on library evaluation focuses on three measures of reference effectiveness in terms of users' experience: total number of reference questions received, proportion of answers provided to inquiries received, and accuracy with which questions are answered. Four required and suggested readings and four references are…
Descriptors: Courses, Evaluation Methods, Formative Evaluation, Library Planning
Hopkins, Dianne McAfee; Zweizig, Douglas L. – 1999
The Library Power program is a school improvement initiative of the DeWitt-Wallace Reader's Digest Fund that began in 1988, designed to promote the full integration of the school library media program into the school curriculum in public elementary and junior high/middle schools. With a total investment exceeding $45 million, Library Power is the…
Descriptors: Administrator Education, Course Integrated Library Instruction, Curriculum Development, Elementary Education
Zweizig, Douglas L.; Hopkins, Dianne McAfee – 1999
This book presents the results of an evaluation of Library Power, an initiative of the DeWitt Wallace-Reader's Digest Fund that provided support for school library development in 19 communities. Following an introductory chapter, the chapters are organized around key questions of the evaluation. Chapters 2 through 4 address the implementation of…
Descriptors: Course Integrated Library Instruction, Curriculum Development, Educational Change, Elementary Secondary Education
Zweizig, Douglas L.; And Others – 1988
This comprehensive report details the activities of a study which investigated public, public secondary school, community college, academic, state institutional, and state library agencies, in order to: (1) assess the current status of libraries in literacy education; (2) determine an expanded role for libraries in literacy education; and (3)…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Higher Education, Institutional Libraries, Library Role
Zweizig, Douglas L.; And Others – 1985
The result of a pilot study funded by the Library Services and Construction Act (LSCA), this document is both a report of a test of adaptations of "Output Measures for Public Libraries" for the measurement of children's services in Wisconsin public libraries, and a manual for children's librarians to use for future data collection. The…
Descriptors: Children, Library Services, Library Statistics, Measurement Techniques
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Zweizig, Douglas L. – Public Libraries, 1987
Discusses current issues in measuring library effectiveness, including rapid technological changes and increasing obsolescence in librarians' competencies; increased pressure for accountability; tools to help libraries become what they determine they should be rather than conforming to national standards; and how to determine the validity and…
Descriptors: Evaluation Methods, Library Administration, Library Automation, Library Planning