This study investigated the practices public and academic
library administrators find useful and utilize in analyzing
use of collections. The study also investigated
administrators' satisfaction with their collection use
analysis practices, and the impact they perceived automation
to have upon collection use analysis practices.
A survey developed for this study was sent to two
stratified random samples of 495 academic libraries and 605
public libraries in the United States. Eight hundred and
eighty-eight usable responses were received. Chi-square
analyses of six null hypotheses were made and data analyzed
computing totals, percentages and rankings.
All six null hypotheses were rejected in specific
instances. There were differences in the collection
analysis practices nonautomated and automated libraries in
the sample used found useful. There was a correlation
between a library's satisfaction with its practices and its
state of automation. In two of four instances there was a
generalizable difference between the expectations of
automated and nonautomated libraries regarding the utility
of automated systems in gathering data for analyzing
collection use. There was a difference in the practices
used by the sample of automated and nonautomated libraries
to analyze collection use. There was a difference in the
collection analysis practices identified as useful by the
sample of academic and public libraries. There was a
difference in the practices used by the sample of academic
and public libraries to analyze collection use. / Graduation date: 1990
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:ORGSU/oai:ir.library.oregonstate.edu:1957/38088 |
| Date | 16 May 1989 |
| Creators | Cochrane, Linda Louise Loomis |
| Contributors | Carpenter, Charles |
| Source Sets | Oregon State University |
| Language | en_US |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Thesis/Dissertation |
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