Decision Support Systems and Performance Assessment in Academic Libraries
Decision Support Systems and Performance Assessment in Academic Libraries

Author: Roy James Adams

Publisher:

Published: 1993

Total Pages: 168

ISBN-13:

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Decision Support Systems and Performance Assessment in Academic Libraries looks at how the concepts of Decision Support Systems (DSS) can help in the management of academic libraries. It is a report originating from research carried out at De Montfort University, UK, under the auspices of the British Library. This book examines the concepts of DSS and looks specifically at academic library applications. There is a special focus on DSS as performance measures and indicators. It then goes on to look at DSS in operation and discusses artificial intelligence and executive information systems. Decision Support Systems and Performance Assessment in Academic Libraries is your key to this highly topical issue - DSS is now recognized to be one of the most important concepts in the improvement of the management of libraries today; and has a practical focus - looks at how DSS can help in the day-to-day running of your library - including resource allocation, performance measures and indicators.

Assessing Academic Library Performance
Assessing Academic Library Performance

Author: Holt Zaugg

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

Published: 2021-10-29

Total Pages: 211

ISBN-13: 1538149249

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Assessment is essential to describe a library’s value and to inform decision-making. Using the four key assessment components of design, data collection, data analysis, and dissemination, Assessing Academic Library Performance: A Handbook provides strategies and case studies for performing four different types of assessments: Service assessments for the library’s outward and inward facing services that either help library users or other library employees to help users. These assessments focus on providing and improving how things are done to better serve others. Resources assessments for the physical and virtual resources that the library has in its holdings or to which it provides access. Resources are the reason libraries exist as they help patrons in instructional and research pursuits. Space assessments for physical and online library spaces. These assessments help ensure that spaces meet user needs. Personnel relationship assessments look at how library employees interact with each other. as library professionals. While not for evaluation or advancement purposes, these types of assessments provide information on what library employees can do to improve their relationships with one another. Each section has information on conducting each aspect of libraries followed by three examples to illustrate how assessment is used to support descriptions of library value and to help library employees make decisions that are critical to library improvement.

Evaluation and Library Decision Making
Evaluation and Library Decision Making

Author: Peter Hernon

Publisher: Praeger

Published: 1990

Total Pages: 296

ISBN-13:

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Evaluation, which is a critical component of the planning process, assesses the effectiveness and efficiency of library programs and services in the context of stated goals and objectives. This book views evaluation as a type of research study in which evaluators collect either research or management data. Chapters discuss steps of the evaluation process and provide practical examples of the application of these steps to specific library problems. The overall objectives of the volume are to introduce readers to the relationship between planning and evaluation; to discuss the components of an evaluation study in clear prose so that readers can easily understand the different steps; to foster an attitude that recognizes the importance of evaluation for the development of library programs and services; to offer examples of each component of the evaluation process; to identify writings on evaluation in libraries and information centers; and to encourage organizational change and underscore the importance of evaluation to library decision making.

ELINOR – Electronic Library Project
ELINOR – Electronic Library Project

Author: Anne Ramsden

Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG

Published: 2017-07-24

Total Pages: 176

ISBN-13: 3110977206

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ELINOR presents the final report on the ELINOR project, conducted at De Montfort University in the UK between 1992 and 1996. It was the first time a working electronic library was built for use by students across a university and the project proved extremely valuable in generating a large amount of practical experience. This will enable many libraries to understand the implications of the transition phase towards the electronic library.

Acquiring Online Management Reports
Acquiring Online Management Reports

Author: William E. Jarvis

Publisher: CRC Press

Published: 2019-09-30

Total Pages: 186

ISBN-13: 1000723909

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Save time and money for your library with these current and easy suggestions!Acquiring Online Management Reports offers state-of-the-art information for acquisitions librarians involved in selecting management reports of all types, from fund accounting to decision support systems to usage tracking. Compiling management reports has always been a responsibility of acquisitions librarians. These days, computerized reporting systems have become powerful tools in managing libraries, but they are useful only when the results are accurate, significant, and relevant. Acquiring Online Management Reports discusses techniques for creating and interpreting reports that will give librarians the information they need in an accessible form. This fact-filled guide explores working with vendors, developing cost-effective collection development methods to suit your library, assessing collection growth, and choosing the best electronic resources to help meet your goals.In Acquiring Online Management Reports, librarians will find practical, instantly usable information on pertinent topics, including: the problems created by inaccurate data vendor discussions of how new report systems are designed and implemented the surprising differences between journals’online and print editions expanding usage of decision support systems interpreting the fluctuations of fund accounting information using computer technology to form library consortia computerizing serials controlAcquiring Online Management Reports offers you an array of proven ideas, options, and examples that will enable your library to keep up with changing technologies and client demands.