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Explore the ARL's initiatives for identifying, formulating, and
testing new criteria for evaluating academic libraries in the
digital age! The proliferation of electronic information resources
in the past decade has changed the ways in which research libraries
evaluate their service and holdings. This collection of articles
(thirteen of which previously appeared in ARL's bimonthly
newsletter/report on research issues and actions) examines new
measures for library evaluation that are being developed by the
Association of Research Libraries. It presents an overview of how
the Association of Research Libraries' "new measures" initiative
developed, plus insightful reports on the details of the SERVQUAL,
LibQUAL+, and E-metrics projects. Handy flow charts and tables make
the information easily accessible and understandable. From the
editor: "The profound changes in library management and collection
development brought about by digital technology in the closing
decade of the twentieth century have changed the way we think about
libraries. If we were to ask librarians who have been in the
profession for more than a decade how they evaluated a library, we
probably would hear statistics about the number of volumes held and
added annually, the number of serial subscriptions, how much money
a library has to spend, and how many professionals are on staff.
These are the traditional criteria by which libraries have been
judged throughout much of the twentieth century. Newer librarians,
however, especially those who entered the profession in the late
1980s and 1990s, use a different yardstick and frequently recite
different statistics that include terms such as user satisfaction,
spending on electronic resources and services, document delivery
services, numbers of databases and electronic journals available,
and services provided to distance learners." In Evaluating the
Twenty-First Century Library, you'll find valuable information on:
current performance measures for academic libraries the continuing
search for accurate new performance measures the uses of learning
outcomes assessment SERVQUAL, LibQUAL+, and the ARL LibQUAL+ Pilot
Project the results of the 2000 Symposium on Measuring Library
Service Quality the uses of E-metrics in assessing the academic
networked environment and accurately measuring use, users,
services, resources, and other factors an insightful discussion of
the rise in spending on electronic information by research
libraries
Going Digital: Strategies for Access, Preservation, and Conversion
of Collections to a Digital Format offers you succinct and analytic
views of the problems and benefits of digital resources in the
traditional academic library. Library administrators, collection
managers, and librarians will learn the advantages and
disadvantages of traditional and digital collections and the costs
of providing local access or implementing remote access to digital
collections. Originally presented at a series of five symposiums
sponsored by the Research Libraries Group, the articles inGoing
Digital will help you decide upon a cost-effective collection
method that will meet the needs of your library, your patrons, and
your budget.The chapters in this text are written by the nation 's
leading librarians who pose and answer questions about hardware and
software needed for digital libraries, the costs involved,
establishing and maintaining access to digital collections,
copyright concerns, and long-term preservation problems. Going
Digital gives you insight into factors that will help you decide
what will best meet the goals of your library, such as: the
advantages and disadvantages of preserving microfilm and digital
conversion choosing the correct hardware and software for your
digital preservation program the changes required from librarians
when shifting from collection development to digital resources
examining the selection process for collections from perspectives
of access, public service, technological requirements, and
preservation ways to improve access to traditional collections cost
comparisons between digital and hard copy resources devising a
technical plan for successful digital conversion of projects
involving the user 's wants when selecting collections for digital
conversion and recognizing the central parts patrons play in the
selection processIn light of the changing ways we receive and keep
our information, Going Digital discusses new collection
preservation criteria and suggests that access and informational
values, not just deterioration, should be equal factors in
selecting materials to be converted to digital form. Proving that
digital collections are changing every facet of library operations,
Going Digital shows you the most cost-effective way to begin a
digital collection and how to choose what materials to digitize in
order to provide your patrons with the information they want and
need.
Whether painted by artist-warriors depicting their feats in battle
or by other Native American artists, 19th and 20th century ledger
drawings--drawn on blank sheets of ledger books obtained from U.S.
soldiers, traders, missionaries, and reservation employees--provide
an excellent visual source of information on the Great Plains
Native Americans. An art form representing a transition from
drawing on buffalo hide to a paper medium, ledger drawings range in
style, content, and quality from primitive and artistically poor to
bold and sharp with lavish use of color. Although interest in
ledger drawings has increased in the last 20 years, there has never
been a guide to holdings of these drawings. By bringing together
the diverse and scattered institutions that hold them, this book
will make finding the drawings quicker and easier. Illustrated with
examples of ledger drawings, the guide identifies the libraries,
archives, historical societies, and museums that hold ledger
drawings. The institutions listed range from those with large
collections, such as the Smithsonian, Yale, and Oklahoma museums,
to institutions with only a few drawings. The book also includes a
bibliography of books and articles about Indian pictographic art.
The index will enable researchers to locate art by individual
artists and tribes.
The first bibliography to systematically list the numerous articles
describing archives and manuscript collections in the United
States, this volume includes over 2,200 titles. It goes beyond the
continental United States, including articles describing foreign
archives that hold records and manuscripts documenting U.S. history
and also incorporating articles about archives and manuscript
holdings in Alaska, Hawaii, Puerto Rico, and other U.S. Trust
Territories. The book is multidisciplinary, containing entries from
art, theatre, film and television, business, education, history,
librarianship, literature, religion, and other fields. This volume
will be useful to researchers using the historical method and to
librarians who are frequently asked questions about archival
sources. The volume's 2,200 entries are arranged topically and
geographically. Annotations clarify the article's title and will
help the reader determine which articles to review. The detailed
index will help the reader locate articles describing the holdings
of specific collections or the papers of specific individuals. This
book will be sought after and appreciated by all those doing
research in unpublished sources.
This bibliography is the first to provide systematic coverage of
the numerous guides, directories, calendars, inventories, and
registers on archives and manuscript collections in the United
States. It also covers guides to foreign archives holding materials
crucial to an understanding of U.S. history and extends beyond the
continential United States to include archives in Puerto Rico, the
Virgin Islands, and other Trust Territories. Cutting across
disciplines, this bibliography cites more than 2,000 titles from
the humanities and the social and physical sciences. It also
includes guides to the voluminous holdings of the federal
government. The entries are arranged in both topical and
geographical headings. Annotations are designed to clarify a
guide's title and to help researchers to ascertain the guide's
usefulness to them. The index will help researchers to locate
quickly guides to the holdings that will be most useful to them.
This volume will be a valuable tool for scholars and researchers
using unpublished sources as well as for librarians.
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