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Peer reviewedHernon, Peter; Powell, Ronald R.; Young, Arthur P. – College & Research Libraries, 2001
Identifies attributes that directors of the academic libraries in the Association of Research Libraries (ARL) need. Present-day directors must possess a wide variety of attributes and are less likely to remain in the same position for as long as their predecessors did. With the aging population of academic librarians, matching the right individual…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Futures (of Society), Job Skills, Librarians
Peer reviewedHernon, Peter; Powell, Ronald R.; Young, Arthur P. – College & Research Libraries, 2002
Using the Delphi technique, this paper continues to develop a set of attributes that Association of Research Libraries directors of today and the near future will need to possess. The questions remaining are: How does the list of attributes change in other organizational settings? and Where can each attribute best be acquired? (Author/AEF)
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Futures (of Society), Higher Education, Librarians
Peer reviewedPowell, Ronald R.; Creth, Sheila D. – College and Research Libraries, 1986
Randomly sampled librarians were asked to rate 56 categories of baseline knowledge and skills according to their importance and degree to which respondents considered themselves knowledgeable. Highlights include areas of knowledge; library education effectiveness; and the importance of knowledge and experience, the library position, and the…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Higher Education, Job Skills, Knowledge Level
Peer reviewedPowell, Ronald R. – Library and Information Science Research, 1992
Reviews research on impact assessment of libraries and considers potentially useful methodologies for measuring the impact of university libraries, i.e., how library use affects students' academic performance. Topics discussed include categories of library use, purposes of library use, and indicators of library impact. The user panel methodology…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Evaluation Methods, Higher Education, Library Research
Peer reviewedPowell, Ronald R.; And Others – Library Trends, 1989
Nine articles in this festschrift for Herbert Goldhor explore relatively new and innovative approaches to problem solving in libraries. The articles identify and discuss methods and techniques of applied and evaluative research, consider conceptual and practical issues related to problem solving in libraries, and recognize Goldhor's many…
Descriptors: Accounting, Cost Effectiveness, Evaluation Methods, Evaluation Research
Direct linkHolley, Robert P.; Powell, Ronald R. – Journal of Access Services, 2004
This paper reports the results of a survey of student satisfaction with electronic library resources other than the online catalog at Wayne State University. Undertaken in Fall Term 2000 as a class project for a marketing course, a student team designed, administered, and analyzed a survey of a random sample of students. Almost 40% of the…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Electronic Libraries, Online Catalogs, Online Systems
