Overview

This volume is the most comprehensive compilation of ideas related to library performance yet assembled. It brings together noted researchers and successful library directors and educators who have extended the landmark findings and efforts of their mentor and friend, Ernest DeProsp. The editors give a historical account of contemporary measurement activities; suggest methodologies for measuring performance; offer viewpoints on planning, goal-setting and validity; and comment on problems associated with planning, one of the major tools of measurement. Readers of the book will develop informed opinions about planning, a practice that when entered into unaware can enslave an organization in endless data gathering routines and tax their endurance beyond reasonable points. Thought-provoking comments on the directions taken, and not taken, by library thinkers challenge the reader to speculate about current library-think.

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Author:   F. William Summers ,  F. William Summers
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Imprint:   Praeger Publishers Inc
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 1.10cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   0.431kg
ISBN:  

9780893915971

ISBN 10:   0893915971
Pages:   1
Publication Date:   01 January 1990
Recommended Age:   From 7 to 17 years
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  College/higher education ,  Professional & Vocational ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand  
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Table of Contents

Preface Acknowledgments Introduction Measurement of Library Output: How is it Related to Research? Reflections on Performance Measures Fifteen Years Later Integrating Performance Measures into the Planning Process: Moving toward Decision Support Systems Aspects of Validity in Unobtrusive Studies Do Library Systems Make a Difference? Public Libraries: Flexibility and Political Action Accountability of Library Services for Youth: A Planning, Measurement, and Evaluation Model The Accountability of Public Organizations for Educational Projects Supported by Grant-Making Agencies Accountability in the Classroom Staff Development and Organizational Change Applying Nontraditional Perspectives to Traditional Library Research: Critical Theory as Method Roads Not Taken: Some Thoughts about Librarianship A Biographical Sketch of Ernest R. DeProspo, Jr. Planning: The Key to Performance, Accountability, and Responsiveness and a Future for Libraries Epilogue Author Index Subject Index

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