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Assessment Bibliography
A running list of useful articles discovered by the SQI Assessment Group. Please help us build this resource by contributing your favorites.

Measuring Reference and Reference Quality

  • Bicknell-Holmes, Tracy. 1994. Focusing on quality reference service. The-Journal-of-Academic-Librarianship 20: 77-81.
  • Cook, Colleen and Fred- M. Heath. 2000. The ARL "libqual+" pilot project: An update. Arl 2000: 12-14.
  • Cook, Colleen, Fred- M. Heath, and Bruce Thompson. 2001. Users' hierarchical perspectives on library service quality: A "libqual+" study. College-and-Research-Libraries 62, no. 2:147-53.
  • Norlin, Elaina. 2000. Reference evaluation: A three-step approach- surveys, unobtrusive observations, and focus groups. College-and-Research-Libraries 61, no. 6: 546-53.
  • Whitlatch, Jo-Bell. 2000. Evaluating reference services: A practical guide.

Library Statistics Background

  • Hernon, Peter. 1989. Research and the use of statistics for library decision making. Library-Administration-and-Management 3: 176-80.
  • Janes, Joseph. 1999. Descriptive statistics: Where they sit and how they fall. Library-Hi-Tech 17: 402-8.
Service Quality Explored in Libraries (.pdf file)
Bibliography by Danuta A. Nitecki



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