Academic Library Website Benchmarks 2015 Edition

Author : Primary Research Group,Primary Research Group Staff
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Academic libraries
ISBN : 157440315X

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Academic Library Website Benchmarks, 2015 Edition by Primary Research Group,Primary Research Group Staff Pdf

The 116-page study presents data from 50 colleges and universities about their academic library development and management policies. The study helps its readers answer questions such as: What percentage of academic libraries recently undertook, or plan in the near future, a major website redesign? What are the goals of the website redesigns? How is the academic library website staffed? What is the role of the central college IT department? How have website usability studies been conducted and by whom? Have outside consultants played a role? How many libraries have ancillary sites or presences on Facebook, Instagram, Pinterest and other cyber sites? How many libraries have committees to oversee their websites? What do librarians consider the best single products and ideas that have helped their websites over the past few years?

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Primary Research Group Inc
Page : 133 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9781574400946

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Academic Library Website Benchmarks by Anonim Pdf

Academic Library Website Benchmarks is based on data from more than 80 academic libraries in the USA and Canada. The 125+ page study presents detailed data on the composition of the academic library web staff, relations with the college and library information technology departments, use of consultants and freelancers, budgets, future plans, website marketing methods, website revision plans, usage statistics, use of software, development of federated search and online forms and much more. Data is broken out by enrollment size, public and private status, Carnegie Class, as well as for libraries with or without their own web staff.

Author : Primary Research Group
Publisher : Primary Research Group Inc
Page : 158 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781574402216

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Academic Library Website Benchmarks, 2013 Edition by Primary Research Group Pdf

This report looks closely at how academic libraries are re-shaping their websites. The study is based on a survey of 56 academic library web staffs with data broken out by size and type of academic institution and other criteria. The 160 page study gives exhaustive data about academic library preferences in areas such as use of mashups, library social media sites, website staff and budgets, role of the college and library IT staffs, governance of the website, content entry policies, relations with the college IT and web staff, branding issues, college web conformity issues, preferences in content management systems, programming and scripting, division of web staff time among various priorities, use of blogs, listservs, email newsletters, rss feeds and other communication vehicles, use of and plans for federated search, search box presentation strategy, and use of cascading style sheets. The study also covers ease of use issues for library staff focusing on how easy it is to perform certain website-related tasks such as entry of the same content to multiple site locations, ease of inserting and positioning videos, and ease of inserting tabular materials, among other tasks. Other issues covered include but are not limited to: use of freelancers and consultants, sources of advice, use of social bookmarking tools and much more.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 157 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Academic libraries
ISBN : OCLC:1330348840

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Academic Library Website Benchmarks by Anonim Pdf

Author : Primary Research Group,Primary Research Group Staff
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Benchmarking (Management)
ISBN : 1574403176

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International Research Library Benchmarks, 2015 Edition by Primary Research Group,Primary Research Group Staff Pdf

The study closely compares the policies of 23 research libraries predominantly from the USA, but also from Canada, Germany and the UK. The intensive 230+ page report gives detailed comparisons and data about how these libraries are handling an array of issues and developments, including but not limited to: trends in staffing and use of personnel, operating budget, capital budgets, digitization strategies, use of open access, 3D printing, grants management, technology investment, employee productivity growth, database licensing and much more. Data is broken out separately by library staff size, region of the world and for corporate/legal libraries, university libraries and for other non-profit/government libraries.

Author : Primary Research Group
Publisher : Primary Research Group Inc
Page : 187 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781574402742

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Virtual Reference Benchmarks by Primary Research Group Pdf

The 186-page study presents results of an exhaustive questionnaire about virtual reference services answered by more than 50 academic, public and special libraries covering issues such as budgets, software and services use, consortia membership, partnerships, library staff time consumed, number of reference questions answered, time taken to provide responses, and the tracking of reference answers and the development of a reference database. The study also looks at reference question & answer delivery vehicles such as web forms, instant messaging, email, phone, Facebook, Twitter, Skype and more. The report also looks at the various costs of virtual reference – telecommunications, manpower, technology and equipment and at how libraries are using and safeguarding their reference response databases.

Author : Primary Research Group Staff
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 114 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Academic libraries
ISBN : 1574404172

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International Benchmarks for Academic Library Use of Bibliometrics & Altmetrics, 2016-17: to 25; Pages:26 to 50; Pages:51 to 75; Pages:76 to 100; Pages:101 to 114 by Primary Research Group Staff Pdf

Author : Primary Research Group
Publisher : Primary Research Group Inc
Page : 166 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781574402162

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Higher Education Interlibrary Loan Management Benchmarks, 2013 Edition by Primary Research Group Pdf

This report looks closely at how academic libraries manage their interlibrary loan operations. It gives critical data on response and fulfillment times, for borrowing and lending, for books, journal articles, eBooks, videos and other forms of intellectual property. It presents benchmarking data on staffing, management oversite, productivity, technology use and other issues and factors in higher education interlibrary loan management. This 170+ page study also looks closely at shipping costs, staffing levels, response times, workflow studies, end user preferences in ILL delivery, automation, impact of digital repositories, use of student labor, special provisions for distance learning ILL, and other critical issues. The study also looks at which library departments or agencies control the ILL function. Data is broken out by size and type of academic library and also for academic libraries in the United States and elsewhere.

Author : Roswitha Poll,Peter te Boekhorst
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2008-11-03
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783598440281

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Measuring Quality by Roswitha Poll,Peter te Boekhorst Pdf

The first edition of this handbook appeared in 1996 and dealt with academic libraries. It gained wide acceptance and was translated into five other languages. After ten years the new edition widens the perspective to public libraries and adds indicators for electronic services and cost-effectiveness. The handbook has been considerably enlarged, from 17 to 40 indicators. It gives practical help by showing examples of possible results for each indicator. The handbook is intended as practical instrument for the evaluation of library services. Although it aims specifically at academic and public libraries, most indicators will also apply to all other types of libraries.

Author : Management Association, Information Resources
Publisher : IGI Global
Page : 579 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2020-03-06
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781799824640

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Digital Libraries and Institutional Repositories: Breakthroughs in Research and Practice by Management Association, Information Resources Pdf

Technology has revolutionized the ways in which libraries store, share, and access information, as well as librarian roles as knowledge managers. As digital resources and tools continue to advance, so too do the opportunities for libraries to become more efficient and house more information. Effective administration of libraries is a crucial part of delivering library services to patrons and ensuring that information resources are disseminated efficiently. Digital Libraries and Institutional Repositories: Breakthroughs in Research and Practice addresses new methods, practices, concepts, and techniques, as well as contemporary challenges and issues for libraries and university repositories that can be accessed electronically. It also addresses the problems of usability and search optimization in digital libraries. Highlighting a range of topics such as content management, resource sharing, and library technologies, this publication is an ideal reference source for librarians, IT technicians, academicians, researchers, and students in fields that include library science, knowledge management, and information retrieval.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Academic libraries
ISBN : 1574404008

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International Benchmarks for Academic Library Use of Bibliometrics and Altmetrics, 2016-17 by Anonim Pdf

This study presents data from 20 predominantly research universities in the USA, continental Europe, the UK, Canada and Australia/New Zealand. Among the survey participants are: Carnegie Mellon, Cambridge University, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya the University at Albany, the University of Melbourne, Florida State University, the University of Alberta and Victoria University of Wellington. The report gives detailed data on the use of various bibliometric and altmetric tools such as Google Scholar, Web of Science, Scimago, Plum Analytics, and many, many others. The 114-page report presents detailed information on staffing, budgets, marketing, sources of demand, technology and other factors in bibliometric and altmetric service development. Just a few of the report's many findings are that: · Institutions cited by survey participants for excellence in bibliometrics or altmetrics were: Georgia State University, Yale University, the University of New South Wales, the National Library of Medicine and the University of Pittsburgh, among others.· 50% of the institutions sampled help their researchers to obtain a Thomsen/Reuters Researcher ID.· A 60 percent majority said demand for bibliometric services increased slightly, 10 percent said it increased considerably, and 5 percent said demand fell somewhat. A quarter of the participants said demand for bibliometric services at their institution remained about the same over the past two years. · Academic department heads accounted for a mean of 24.38% of the demand for bibliometric services from the libraries sampled.· Just 5% of those surveyed use Facebook Insights in their altmetrics efforts.

Author : de Smet, Egbert,Dhamdhere, Sangeeta
Publisher : IGI Global
Page : 401 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2016-07-13
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781522504757

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E-Discovery Tools and Applications in Modern Libraries by de Smet, Egbert,Dhamdhere, Sangeeta Pdf

Technology has revolutionized the ways in which libraries store, share, and access information. As digital resources and tools continue to advance, so too do the opportunities for libraries to become more efficient and house more information. E-Discovery Tools and Applications in Modern Libraries presents critical research on the digitization of data and how this shift has impacted knowledge discovery, storage, and retrieval. This publication explores several emerging trends and concepts essential to electronic discovery, such as library portals, responsive websites, and federated search technology. The timely research presented within this publication is designed for use by librarians, graduate-level students, technology developers, and researchers in the field of library and information science.

Author : Primary Research Group Staff
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Academic libraries
ISBN : 1574403184

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International Benchmarks for Academic Library Use of Bibliometrics by Primary Research Group Staff Pdf

The study presents data from 30 college and university libraries in the USA, the UK, Canada, Germany, Ireland and other countries, about their use of bibliometrics. Participants include: the University of Cambridge, Cornell University, University College Dublin, the Rockefeller University, the University of Seville, Carnegie Mellon, the University of Newcastle, SUNY Buffalo, Technische Universität München and many others. The study helps its readers to answer questions such as: How well used are indicia such as the Web of Science, Scimago or Scopus? How are Google Scholar and JSTOR used in bibliometrics? What has been the impact of google Scholar or of digital repositories? How strong is demand for bibliometrics services? What are the centers of demand? How fast is demand growing? Is funding keeping up with demand? How are bibliometrics services promoted within the college or university? What has been the impact of altmetrics? What are favored altmetrics techniques? What role are bibliometrics playing in tenure decisions? In hiring decisions? How much library staff time is spent on bibliometrics?

Author : Van House Nancy A
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:180509923

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Measuring Academic Library Performance: a Practical Approach by Van House Nancy A Pdf

Author : Nancy A. Van House,Beth Weil,Charles R. McClure
Publisher : Chicago, IL : American Library Assoc.
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Education
ISBN : 0838905293

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Measuring Academic Library Performance by Nancy A. Van House,Beth Weil,Charles R. McClure Pdf

Prepared for the Association of College and Research Libraries Ad Hoc Committee on Performance Measures.