Planning and Evaluating Library Networked Services and Resources

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This book describes techniques for evaluating services provided through library networks, including collection development, group purchases, and reference services. Providing guides for developing evaluation instruments, testing them and applying them, it is comprehensive in its treatment of evaluating network services. Featuring contributions from some of the leaders in the area of e-metrics (Oliver Pesh, Ebsco; Judith Hiott, Houston Public; Jeff Shim, ARL e-metrics; and Chuck McClure) this book is an integrated, updated knowledge base of events in this area since 1998. It also provides a great deal of experiential knowledge concerning what libraries should do, plan for, and use in e-metrics.

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Most libraries purchase services through library networks, and editors John Carlo Bertot and Denise M. Davis help librarians evaulate such purchases in Planning and Evaluating Library Networked Services and Resources.-American Libraries
Planning and Evaluating Library Networked Services and Resources does not shy from technical detail, the essays make every effort to describe the steps a librarian must undergo to be sufficiently comptetent in his or her understanding of networked systems. Charts, sample surveys, diagrams, checksheets and more round out the no-nonsense text in this "must-read" guide for expanding libraries in the age of modern technology.-MBR Internet Bookwatch
This thorough text provides techniques for designing and evaluating services such as collection development and reference supplied and maintained library networks.... Intelligent and specific, the book highlights the need for a library to use its evaluation and assessment tools to demonstrate the value of the service it provides to the community.-Booklist/Professional Reading
"Planning and Evaluating Library Networked Services and Resources does not shy from technical detail, the essays make every effort to describe the steps a librarian must undergo to be sufficiently comptetent in his or her understanding of networked systems. Charts, sample surveys, diagrams, checksheets and more round out the no-nonsense text in this "must-read" guide for expanding libraries in the age of modern technology."-MBR Internet Bookwatch
"This thorough text provides techniques for designing and evaluating services such as collection development and reference supplied and maintained library networks.... Intelligent and specific, the book highlights the need for a library to use its evaluation and assessment tools to demonstrate the value of the service it provides to the community."-Booklist/Professional Reading
"Planning and Evaluating Library Networked Services and Resources does not shy from technical detail, the essays make every effort to describe the steps a librarian must undergo to be sufficiently comptetent in his or her understanding of networked systems. Charts, sample surveys, diagrams, checksheets and more round out the no-nonsense text in this "must-read" guide for expanding libraries in the age of modern technology."-MBR Internet Bookwatch
"Most libraries purchase services through library networks, and editors John Carlo Bertot and Denise M. Davis help librarians evaulate such purchases in Planning and Evaluating Library Networked Services and Resources."-American Libraries

Author Bio

JOHN CARLO BERTOT is Professor, School of Information Studies, Florida State University, Chair of of the International Standards Organizations (ISO) Working Group 4, member of ISO Working Group 2, and serves on the National Information Standards Organizations (NISO) library statistics committee. He is Editor of Government Information Quarterly and Co-editor of Library Quarterly. DENISE M. DAVIS is Director of the Office for Research and Statistics at the American Library Association. She serves on the advisory committees of the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) Library Program for the public and state library surveys, and chairs the NCES academic library survey advisory committee. She also chairs the National Information Standards Organization Library Statistics Standard Z39.7 revision committee, and serves on a number of other committees including the ProjectCOUNTER advisory and International Standards Organization (ISO) committees. library statistics standards.