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D'Elia, George; Van House, Nancy – Public Libraries, 1988
Reports results of materials availability surveys conducted in public library systems and discusses implications of the findings for validity, reliability, and usefulness of fill rates as measures of library performance. A second paper presents another view in defense of fill rates, and responses by both authors are also included. (MES)
Descriptors: Information Seeking, Measurement Techniques, Public Libraries, User Satisfaction (Information)
Walsh, Andrew – Journal of Librarianship and Information Science, 2009
Interest in developing ways to assess information literacy has been growing for several years. Many librarians have developed their own tools to assess aspects of information literacy and have written articles to share their experiences. This article reviews the literature and offers readers a flavour of the methods being used for assessment:…
Descriptors: Information Literacy, Case Studies, Library Research, Evaluation Methods
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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
Hardesty, Larry – 1986
Arguing that there is a current tendency among librarians to talk more about the evaluation of bibliographic instruction than to actually do anything about it, this paper examines limitations of and considerations pertaining to evaluation and includes: (1) a brief discussion of the history of bibliographic instruction; (2) discussion of types of…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Affective Measures, Attitude Measures, Cognitive Measurement