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Download full textPotter, William Gray; Cook, Colleen; Kyrillidou, Martha – Association of Research Libraries, 2011
The current ARL report summarizes a multi-year effort that captures evidence in the form of narrative profiles as it delivers the message of the value and contributions of research libraries during transformative times. When ARL library directors were interviewed in 2005 and asked to describe a research library in the 21st century, there was…
Descriptors: Research Libraries, Library Role, Profiles, Statistics
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
Cook, Colleen; Heath, Fred; Thompson, Bruce – 2000
Texas A&M University and the Association of Research Libraries (ARL) under the New Measures initiative are engaged in a project to evaluate service quality in research libraries using an augmented SERVQUAL instrument. In spring 2000, 13 ARL libraries in North America invited a random sample of students and faculty to take the survey through…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Higher Education, Library Services, Research Libraries
