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Peer reviewedRosen, Elizabeth McClure – Journal of Youth Services in Libraries, 1990
Describes a needs assessment process that was developed for the Soledad branch library, which is located in a rural, predominantly Spanish-speaking community. Questionnaires for users and nonusers are described, community residents' involvement is discussed, desirable library services are suggested, and needs in a bilingual community are…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Community Involvement, Library Research, Library Services
Download full textMartell, Charles – 1975
A study was conducted of three key availability characteristics of material at the University of California (UC), Berkeley library system: (1) status of materials, (2) time required to obtain them, and (3) their location. These characteristics were examined in light of interlibrary loan criteria set forth in a major report on library cooperation…
Descriptors: College Libraries, Higher Education, Interlibrary Loans, Library Circulation
Frohmberg, Katherine A. – 1975
Special libraries in Southern California and the San Francisco Bay Area who were members of the University of Southern California (USC) School of Engineering Industrial Associate program were surveyed on their use of the USC program and other similar programs. The questionnaire was designed to discover the attitudes and needs of the Industrial…
Descriptors: College Libraries, Corporate Libraries, Industry, Interlibrary Loans
Dervin, Brenda; And Others – 1985
This study was conducted to determine how library users in California say library use helps them. While most library effectiveness studies infer effectiveness by looking at the movement of materials or reports of user satisfaction, this study proceeds from the assumption that libraries need to know how library use helps in user terms. The study…
Descriptors: Information Needs, Information Seeking, Information Utilization, Library Materials
Direct linkGohlke, Mary Jo; Ray, Kathlin – Journal of Access Services, 2003
The impacts of technology upon traditional library resources are sometimes unexpected. The library at California's University of the Pacific discovered that usage of print materials was dwindling, even though the addition of a 50-station "Information Commons" had bolstered overall library use. At first it was anticipated that the…
Descriptors: User Satisfaction (Information), Academic Libraries, Library Services, Access to Information
Plotkin, Jack – 1975
To explain why member libraries were failing to fill interlibrary loan requests, this study surveyed 26 public, school, community college, university, and special libraries throughout the Cooperative Information Network (CIN). The study was designed to discover: which libraries were chosen for loans, how soon patrons wanted loan information, how…
Descriptors: College Libraries, Information Dissemination, Information Systems, Interlibrary Loans
