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Peer reviewedHeath, Fred M.; Thompson, Bruce; Cook, Colleen; Thompson, Russel L.; Kyrillidou, Martha – portal: Libraries and the Academy, 2002
Includes four articles that discuss LibQUAL+[TM], a collaborative effort of the Association of Research Libraries and Texas A&M University responding to the need for greater accountability in measuring the delivery of library services to research library users. Discusses the reliability of LibQUAL+[TM] scores in measuring perceived library…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Accountability, Correlation, Higher Education
Peer reviewedThompson, Bruce; Cook, Colleen; Heath, Fred – portal: Libraries and the Academy, 2001
Explores the number of dimensions needed to measure users' perceptions of library service quality based on data from the ARL (Association of Research Libraries) LibQUAL+ project. Results were consistent with a view that a single set of scores is one reasonable way to characterize user perceptions of library service quality. (Author/LRW)
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Evaluation Methods, Higher Education, Library Research
Peer reviewedCook, Colleen; Heath, Fred; Thompson, Bruce – College & Research Libraries, 2001
The "LibQUAL+" diagnostic tool, product of the Association of Research Libraries (ARL), shows that although a single factor dominates user thinking about library service quality, all items in the survey suffuse this factor. Several first-order factors contribute unique information to the notion of service quality. As different users…
Descriptors: Information Services, Libraries, Library Services, Reference Services
Direct linkThompson, Bruce; Kyrillidou, Martha; Cook, Colleen – Library Quarterly, 2008
The present study was conducted to explore library users' desired service quality levels on the twenty-two core LibQUAL+ items. Specifically, we explored similarities and differences in users' desired library service quality levels across user groups (i.e., undergraduate students, graduate students, and faculty), across geographic locations (i.e.,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Library Services, North American English, Users (Information)
Peer reviewedCook, Colleen; Heath, Fred M.; Thompson, Bruce – portal: Libraries and the Academy, 2003
One of the two major ways of interpreting LibQUAL+[TM] data involves placing perceived service quality ratings within "zones of tolerance" defined as the distances between minimally-acceptable and desired service quality levels. This study compared zones of tolerance on the 25 LibQUAL+[TM] items across undergraduate, graduate student and…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Comparative Analysis, Higher Education, Library Research
Wei, Youhua; Thompson, Bruce; Cook, C. Colleen – portal: Libraries and the Academy, 2005
LibQUAL+[TM] data to date have not been subjected to the modern measurement theory called polytomous item response theory (IRT). The data interpreted here were collected from 42,090 participants who completed the "American English" version of the 22 core LibQUAL+[TM] items, and 12,552 participants from Australia and Europe who…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Psychometrics, Library Services, Item Response Theory
