VINE: Volume 34 Issue 4
Table of contents
Evaluating the Joint Information Systems Committee's Information Environment: the EDNER and EDNER+ projects
Peter BrophyPurpose. Reports on findings of work concerning the use of the JISC information environment by students, considering how information environments are related to the working…
E‐measures: developing statistical measures for electronic information services
Angela ConyersPurpose. Describes the work of the e‐measures project, which aims to produce a set of statistics for measuring electronic information services in UK higher education libraries, to…
The impact of the JUBILEE Toolkit in institutions
Graham Coulson, Linda BanwellScope of paper. Through a discussion of the processes employed with case studies participating in the research project this paper will reflect upon JUBILEE's development of its…
Getting the value from evaluation: where to get the data and what you can do with it
Claire Grace, Alison BremnerPurpose. This paper details initiatives used by the Open University Library in comprehensively evaluating its electronic information services (EIS). It sets the context within the…
Strategies for collecting networked statistics: practical suggestions
Charles R. McClurePurpose. To offer a range of practical suggestions for library staff and others who intend to collect and analyze data that describe their networked services. Method/approach.…
The eVALUEd toolkit: a framework for the qualitative evaluation of electronic information services
Sarah McNicolPurpose. To provide an overview of the approach to EIS evaluation taken by the eVALUEd toolkit and relate this to other work in this area. Design/methodology/approach. The eVALUEd…
Counting on making a difference: assessing our impact
Philip Payne, John Crawford, Wendy FianderPurpose. Ten libraries across the UK are participating in the first phase of an initiative to assess the impact of higher education libraries on learning, teaching, and research…
COUNTER: towards reliable vendor usage statistics
Peter T. ShepherdPurpose. To provide an update on COUNTER, the international organisation that is developing and maintaining a Code of Practice that has set standards for the recording and…
E‐measures: a comprehensive waste of time?
Stephen TownPurpose. To provide a critique, some sources of data, and a broader conception for informing development of e‐measures frameworks for use in academic library services. Approach.…
Evaluation in the Arts and Humanities Data Service
Martin WynnePurpose. There are a large number of free electronic resources available on the web, from various sources, including the outputs of funded research projects. As yet, there are not…