Evaluating effectiveness of libraries

Evaluating Efficiency vs. Effectiveness for Vague Queries and Similarity Search in Digital Libraries

In this paper, we discuss the relationship between result quality and effectiveness, thus motivating approximation methods for computation-intensive searches. For evaluating the quality of approximations, we first propose a new paradigm for measuring the quality of content-based searches. For standard evaluations, this new paradigm yields metrics similar to known measures. However, if the user ...

The effectiveness of evaluating mumps vaccine effectiveness.

Evaluating open source GIS for libraries

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to provide an overview of free and open source (FOSS) geographic information system (GIS) software within the broader contexts of the open source software movement and developments in GIS, and pose the question of whether libraries and academic departments should consider adopting FOSS GIS. Design/methodology/approach – The process of creating a basic them...

Evaluating Digital Libraries with User Panels

In this paper, we describe User Panels as a method for evaluating digital libraries. User Panels have a history of use in medical research and more recently with marketing research. The method is longitudinal in nature, allowing for study of behaviors and attitudes over time. This paper was developed for the JCDL 2009 workshop: User-Friendly Evaluation Knowledge for Digital Librarians.

Ensuring Retrieval Effectiveness in Distributed Digital Libraries

• collection management; • organizing and indexing the materials for storage We find that dissemination of collection-wide information (CWI) in a distributed collection of documents is needed to and retrieval; achieve retrieval effectiveness comparable to that of a central• user interfaces and human-computer interaction; and ized collection. Complete dissemination is unnecessary. The • interope...