id author title date pages extension mime words sentence flesch summary cache txt crl-16178 Jackson, Heather Lea; Hahn, Trudi Bellardo Serving Higher Education’s Highest Goals: Assessment of the Academic Library as Place 2011-09-01 15 .pdf application/pdf 7818 335 49 Assessing Academic Libraries The question of how best to measure efficacy of academic libraries has been debated for many years during which most assessment and evaluation studies have focused on modifying corporate or business models. For example, Continu- ous Quality Improvement, Total Quality Management, Balanced Scorecard, and customer service assessment models are all management and evaluation tools that have had a significant impact on measures of academic library efficacy.4 In corporate settings, evaluating performance by estab- lishing these measures of success seems a reasonable approach. cache/crl-16178.pdf txt/crl-16178.txt