Preliminary statistics and measures for ARL libraries to describe electronic resources and services

摘要

Overall, initial results of a study to evaluate the current state of the art of statistics and performance measures suggest there is much agreement on the need for standardized statistics and measures to describe networked services and resources.There is an evolving sense of agreement for specific statistics and measures that can be used for improved library planning and decision-making.The nature, definition and procedures for collecting data for these statistics and measures, however, are still in some flux. Finally, the study also has found a broad range of interest from a range of national and international organizations and professional associations in the development of such statistics and measures. Coordinating these organizations and associations to agree on specific statistics and measures will continue to be important as statistics and measures are proposed, tested, refined and used.