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Graphic Novel Collections in Academic ARL Libraries

Cassie Wagner is Web Development Librarian in the Morris Library at Southern Illinois University Carbondale; e-mail: [email protected]. ©Cassie Wagner This study examines the extent to which ARL academic libraries collect graphic novels. Using a core list of 176 titles developed from winners of major comics industry awards and a library-focused “best of” list, the holdings of 111 ARL academic...

New Trends and Procedures of Program Assessment for Academic Units

Some consider assessment in terms of a systematic way of gathering and evaluating information within educational system and particularly higher education. Since, the term ‘’assessment’’ refers and relates to administrative processes, this paper has shed light some consideration on how it can benefit the members of department and program. Program assessment ultimately emphasizes on direction for...

Ratings of Journals by ARL Library Directors and Deans of Library and Information Science Schools

A study of the perceived prestige of a core group of library journals by directors of ARL libraries and library school deans reveals a prestige hierarchy for each group. Although in rough agreement on the rating of two-thirds of the journals, the deans and directors differ significantly on the ratings of the remaining one-third. The subset of ARL directors in institutions where librarians have ...

The ARL Library Index as a Decision-Making Tool

In May of 1980 the Association of Research Libraries (ARL) adopted new criteria for membership in the association based, in large part, on what is known as the ARL Library Index. 1 This index is derived from a model containing ten categories, or variables, which characterize library size. While the Library Index model was developed as a measure of an institution's overall standing relative to t...

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