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Table IVB: Privately Funded Library Research

1983-1987

Sponsor	Program	Focus	Type	Funding	P.I.	Institution
Old Gold Summer Fellowship, University Iowa	1983	Naive vs sophisticated methods of forecasting public library circulations	case study		Terrence A. Brooks	University of Iowa, Iowa City
H.W. Wilson Fndtn.	1983	The national library reference survey	survey and analysis	25,000	John W. Head	Clarion University
CLR	1983	Online catalog evaluation project	data analysis	32,403	Ray R. Larson	University of California, Berkeley
CLR	1983	Relationship between bibliographic access to stored materials and faculty attitude and use	case study	31,747		University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Fairfax County Public Library	1984	Comparative assessment of patrons? uses and evaluations across public libraries within a system: a replication	surveys and analysis		George D?Elia and Elanor Jo Rodger	University of Minnesota & PLA
CLR	1984	Dewey Decimal Classification as an on-line searching tool for subject access	assess-ment	94,350		Forest Press, Albany, NY
CLR	1984	Measuring public services impact of an on-line catalog	assess-ment	19,200	Louise S. Sherby	Columbia University
CLR	1984	User success with an on-line catalog	case study	15,736	Nancy C. Kranich, et al	NYU
CLR	1984	Costs of consortium membership	assess-ment	23,500		Tantalus, Inc.
University of Michigan	1984	Childhood Socialization: Its Effect on Adult Library Use and Adult Reading	survey and analysis	5,000	Ronald R. Powell, Margaret T. Taylor, David L. McMillen	University of Michigan
St. Law- rence Uni-versity Library	1985	Union-nonunion wage differentials in the public library	econo-mic analysis	500	Mary F. Rosenthal	Duluth Public Library
Benton Fndtn.	1985	Support of ACLU?s work on privacy implications of new computer and communication technologies	explora-tory study	25,000		ACLU
Benton Fndtn.	1985	Telecommunication needs of nonprofits in the Twin Cities area; resource directory; seminars on new technologies	survey and assess-ment	15,000		Spring Hill Center, Wayzata, MN
Rutgers University Research Council	1985	Organization factors in multitype library networking: a national test of a model	field test		Betty J. Turock	Rutgers University
University Wiscon-sin, Osh-kosh	1985	Development and evaluation of a measure of library automation	devel-opment and testing	2,000	Verna L. Pungitore	Indiana University
CLR	1985	Role of fees in supporting library and information services	assess-ment	10,000		National Commission on Libraries and Infor-mation Science
CLR	1985	Impact of transaction fees on interlibrary loan	assess-ment	2,960	James H. Sweetland & Darlene E. Weigand	State Historical Society of Wisconsin
CLR	1985	Time management in academic libraries	assess-ment	2,773		University of Arizona, Tucson
CLR	1985	Impact of technological changes on library functional units	case study	3,000		University of Illinois, Chicago
CLR	1985	Knowledge Bases and Library Education	survey and analysis	2,100	Ronald R. Powell and Sheila D. Creth	University of Michigan
OCLC	1985-86	Advanced interface design for library retrieval systems	design and prototype	NA	Martin Dillon	OCLC
OCLC	1985-86	Automated title page catalogiing	design and testing	NA	Stuart Weibel	OCLC
OCLC	1985-86	Class dispersion between the Library of Congress classification and the Dewey Decimal classification	assessment	NA	Diane Vizine-Goetz	OCLC
OCLC	1985-86	CONSER abstracting and indexing title overlap	assessment	NA	John E. Tolle	OCLC
OCLC	1985-86	Display formats; to develop experimental methods for evaluating human-computer interfaces and refine evaluation techniques	design	NA	John E. Tolle	OCLC
OCLC	1985-86	Graph-Text; to develop prototype electronic document delivery system	design and field testing	NA	Thomas Hickey	OCLC
OCLC	1985-86	Nonfiction book use by public library users	case study	NA	Chandra Prabha	OCLC
OCLC	1985-86	OCLC CD-ROM retrieval system	design and field test	NA	Terry Noreault	OCLC
OCLC	1985-86	OCLC database use analysis: determination of an appropriate database subset for cataloging on the OCLC M300 Workstation	assessment	NA	Brigitte L. Kenney	OCLC
Indiana University School of Library and Infor-mation Science	1986	Perceptions of change and public library directors in Indiana: an exploratory study	survey and analysis	650	Verna L. Pungitore	Indiana University
CLR	1986	Relationships between library schools and their institutions? libraries	assess-ment	3,000	Marianne Cooper & Shoshona Kaufmann	Queens College, CUNY
CLR	1986	The RLG conspectus as a collection management tool	assess-ment	10,000		Research Libraries Group, Inc.
CLR	1986	Information needs of public affairs scholars	assess-ment	2,996		SUNY Albany
CLR	1986	Coverage of library and information science in bibliographic databases	assess-ment	2,935		SUNY Buffalo
CLR	1986	Statistical reliability of indicators in the RLG conspectus for music	assess-ment	3,000		SUNY Buffalo
CLR	1986	Long-range planning for libraries and information resources in research universities	planning	400,000		UCLA
CLR	1986	Effects of human factors on a library computer literacy program	case study	3,000		University of Missouri, Columbia
CLR	1986	Roles of information managers in U.S. universities	assess-ment	10,990		University of Pittsburgh
CLR	1986	Users? interest in digitized images	case study	2,964		University of Texas, Austin
CLR	1986	Effects of published reviews on library purchasing decisions	assess-ment	2,965		University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee
Ford Fndtn.	1986	Kinds of information available on neighborhood development for use by citizens and public officials	assess-ment	40,000		CUNY
OCLC	1986-87	Comparative classification; investigates interdisciplinary nature of classificatin theory and method	assessment	NA	Francis L. Miksa	OCLC
OCLC	1986-87	Library of Congress Class M subset: music; to identify methods of correcting records and create a prototype database	assessment and design	NA	Jeanette M. Drone	OCLC
OCLC	1986-87	Online Union Catalog subsetting analysis	assessment	NA	John A. Bunge	OCLC
OCLC	1986-87	Assessing access to alternative press publications: women's press titles in the OCLC online Union Catalog	assessment	NA	Suzanne Hildenbrand	SUNY Buffalo
OCLC	1986-87	Dynamics of the OCLC online Union Catalog	assessment	NA	Debora Shaw	Univ. Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
OCLC	1986-87	Holdings as a measure of journal value	assessment	NA	Danny P. Wallace	LSU
OCLC	1986-87	Studies in automatic cataloging	survey analysis	NA	Elaine Svenonius	UCLA
OCLC	1986-87	Variations in subject cataloging in non-Library of Congress cataloging records	survey analysis	NA	Lois Mai Chan	Univ. Kentucky, Lexington
OCLC, CLR, Univ. Michigan	1986-87	Increasing the Accessibility of Library of Congress subject headings in online bibliographic systems	assessment	NA	Karen Markey et al.	OCLC & Univ. Michigan
CLR	1987	User persistence in scanning LCS postings	case study	1,200	Stephen E. Wiberley, Jr., et al	University of Illinois, Chicago
CLR	1987	User persistence in scanning LCS postings	case study	1200	Stephen E. Wiberley et al.	Univ. Illinois, Chicago
OCLC	1987-88	Automated document structure analysis	design	NA	Stuart L. Weibel	OCLC
OCLC	1987-88	Clustering equivalent bibliographic records	assessment	NA	Elaine Svevonius	OCLC
OCLC	1987-88	Collection analysis; examines monographic acquisitions of selected ARL members	assessment	NA	Edward T. O'Neill	OCLC
OCLC	1987-88	Connectionist models of computation: their potential in information systems	exploratory study	NA	Stuart T. Weibel	OCLC
OCLC	1987-88	Duplicate detection and the "species problem"	assessment	NA	John A. Bunge	OCLC
OCLC	1987-88	Managing large retrievals	exploratory study	NA	Chandra G. Prabha	OCLC
OCLC	1987-88	Scholars cross-reference system; a way of collecting, enhancing, and using bibliographic relationships not manifest in text per se	exploratory study	NA	Paul B. Kantor	OCLC

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[Table IVA: Federally Funded Library Research]

[Table IVB: Privately Funded Library Research (part 2 of 3)]