id author title date pages extension mime words sentence flesch summary cache txt crln-22359 Tillotson, Joy; Adlington, Janice; Holt, Cynthia Benchmarking waiting times 1997-11-01 3 .pdf application/pdf 2656 152 80 An observer sat in an office 25 feet from the desk and used stopwatches to time all interactions with the librarians, and the length o f time users remained at the desk. The average amount o f time spent on CD-ROM questions decreased from 7 minutes 30 seconds in 1993 to 6 minĀ­ utes 6 seconds in 1995. cache/crln-22359.pdf txt/crln-22359.txt