Special Issue on Measures

Current Issues

• Issues in Research Library Measurement
  by Julia C. Blixrud, Senior Program Officer

Measurements of Research Libraries

• An Overview of Performance Measures in Higher Education and Libraries
  by Martha Kyrillidou, Senior Program Officer for Statistics and Measurement

• In Search of New Measures
  Originally prepared by Martha Kyrillidou, Senior Program Officer for Statistics and Measurement, and William Crowe, Vice Chancellor for Information Services and Dean of Libraries, University of Kansas, for discussion by the ARL Board at their February 1997 meeting

• The ARL Membership Criteria Index

• Interactive Peer Group Comparisons Through the Web
  by Kendon Stubbs, Deputy University Librarian, University of Virginia

• Understanding Electronic Resources and Library Materials Expenditures: An Incomplete Picture
  by Julia C. Blixrud, Senior Program Officer, and Timothy D. Jewell, Electronic Resources Coordinator, University of Washington Libraries

• Assessing the Academic Networked Environment
  by Joan Lippincott, Associate Executive Director, Coalition for Networked Information

• The State of Performance Measurement in Libraries: A Report from the 2nd Northumbria International Conference
  by Amos Lakos, Coordinator of Management Information Services, University of Waterloo