A comparative study of library surveys of Internet users at Seton Hall University in 1998 and 2001

College and Research Libraries

Volumn 63, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 251-259

  Bao, Xue Ming ^a  

^a SETON HALL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 23044532403     PISSN: 00100870     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5860/crl.63.3.251     Document Type: Article

References (11)

1. Mary J. Lynch, Electronic Services in Academic Libraries: ALA Survey Report (Chicago: ALA, 1996).
2. Mick O'Leary, "New Academic Information Model Bypasses Libraries," Online 25 (July/Aug. 2001): 72-74.
3. Mark Y. Herring, "10 Reasons Why the Internet Is No Substitute for a Library," American Libraries 32, no. 4 (Apr. 2001): 76-78.
4. Xue-Ming Bao, "Challenges and Opportunities: A Report of the 1998 Library Survey of Internet Users at Seton Hall University," College & Research Libraries 59 (Nov. 1998): 535-43.
5. Helen M. Gothberg, "Library Survey: A Research Methodology Rediscovered," College & Research Libraries 51 (Nov. 1996): 553-59. In this article, Gothberg stated: "Most descriptive surveys describe one library or a group of libraries within a system or even a state. Such surveys deal with quantitative data and are used to compare with similar statistics from the previous year, or other libraries. They may also seek opinions and/or demographic data about users."
6. Ibid.
7. John Neter, William Wasserman, and G.A. Whitemore, Applied Statistics (Boston: Allyn and Bacon, 1982), 188.
8. Arthur W. Häfner, Descriptive Statistical Techniques for Librarians, 2nd ed. (Chicago: ALA, 1998), 6.
9. http://pirate.shu.edu/~baoxuemi/SHU_Iibrary_survey_2001_cover_letter.htm . Accessed on Nov. 25, 2001.
10. Floyd J. Fowler Jr., Survey Research Methods (Newbury Park, Calif.: Sage, 1993), 40-41.
11. Bao, "Challenges and Opportunities."