...-to-sequence models. Performance measurement Statistics Information systems Information retrieval Information science Collection management Indexing Multi-word terms Association measure Precision Existing information retrieval (IR) models are very well defined from the theoretical...

... delivery operations in 2000; what the costs are; whether there are differences between sectors; how the study will be applied to improve Australia’s national resource sharing system. © Authors 2002 Australia Performance measurement The National Resource Sharing Working Group undertook...

... . Bunzel , J. (1998 , “ The digital library program of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft ”, ABI Technik , Vol. 18 No. 2 , pp. 132 ‐ 7 . Byrne , A. (1997 , “ CAUL’s interest in performance measurement ”, Australian Academic and Research Libraries , Vol. 28 No. 4 , pp. 252 ‐ 8...

... implementors group. Also highlights related ARL initiatives in interlibrary loan and document delivery. Document management Interlending Performance measurement USA Substantial increases in the volume of interlibrary loan (ILL) traffic in North American libraries during the past decade have been...

...Helle Bjarno Outlines the need for performance measures and costings when one has to decide how to supply documents as quickly as possible at the lowest cost to both the user and the library. There is an increasing awareness of the implications of electronic document delivery for ILL. The most...

...Margaret Barwick Discusses organisation, automation and performance measurement aspects of interlibrary loan department management, and developments in charging for and the preservation of ILL items. Highlights the problems of ILL in developing countries, and changes and developments in the rest...