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Table IVB: Privately Funded Library Research

1992-1997

Sponsor	Program	Focus	Type	Funding	P.I.	Institution
OCLC	1992	Enhancing a new design for subject access to on-line catalogues	case study	10,000	Karen Drabenstott	University of Michigan
CLR	1992	Interlibrary loan cost study	assessment	10,000		ARL
CLR	1992	Determining factors leading Earlham College graduates to enter library schools	case study	1,000		Earlham College
CLR	1992	Functionality of on-line catalogs	assess-ment	11,000	Charles R. Hildreth	Charles R. Hildreth, Springfield, IL
CLR	1992	Price discrimination of economics journals	assess-ment	3,109	George A. Chressanthus & June D. Chressanthus	Mississippi State University
CLR	1992	Decision-making process for collection development in libraries	case study	6,359		Simmons College
CLR	1992	Effectiveness of affirmative action guidelines on recruitment and promotion of minority librarians	case study	2,879		University of Arizona, Tucson
CLR	1992	Users? persistence in scanning postings in an on-line public access catalog	case study	5,330	Stephen E. Wiberley, Jr., et al	University of Illinois, Chicago
Andrew W. Mellon Fndtn.	1992	Research Libraries Project		25,000		ARL & Association of American Universities
OCLC	1992-93	Electronic texts and traditional indexes: a study of applicability and performance	case study	3,000-10,000	Elizabeth D. Liddy	Syracuse Univ.
OCLC	1992-93	Measuring diversity in public library collections	survey and design	3,000-10,000	Judith Serebnick & Frank Quinn	Indiana Univ.
OCLC	1992-93	Document ranking using signature files	exploratory study	NA	Dik Lun Lee	Ohio State Univ.
OCLC	1992-93	Estimating interlibrary loan volume in 1993; includes public libraries	statistical analysis	NA	Chandra G. Prabha	OCLC
OCLC	1992-93	Experimental linguistic indexing for information retrieval (ELIXIR)	exploratory study	NA	C. Jean Godby & Bradley C. Watson	OCLC
OCLC	1992-93	Modeling user's preferences for document delivery	survey analysis	NA	Mark T. Kinnucan	Univ. Western Ontario
University Illinois, Urbana-Champaign	1992 or 1993	Logical reasoning and retrieval performance	field test and analysis	500	Bryce Allen	University Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Andrew W. Mellon Fndtn.	1993	Economics of electronic library of the future	baseline study	210,000		Princeton University
CLR	1993	Information-seeking patterns of faculty members and their use of an on-line system	case study	3,518	Ingrid Hsieh-Yee	Catholic University of America
CLR	1993	Information-seeking process among population-studies researchers	case study	4,000		Johns Hopkins University
CLR	1993	Cost and beneficial impacts of library functions	assess-ment	97,612	Paul Kantor, Joanna D?Esposito-Wachtmann, Tefko Saracevic	Rutgers University
Camille and Henry Dreyfus Fndtn.	1993	Cost-effectiveness of distributive access model of electronic library as part of Fndtn.?s Planning Grants for Chemical Informatics	assess-ment	15,000		Washington University
Henry Luce Fndtn.	1993	New electronic virtual library system, in collaboration with libraries of Harvard University and Yale University	develop-ment	300,000		Emory University
J.M. Kaplan Fndtn., O?Reilly and Associates	1993	Project GAIN: Connecting rural public libraries to the Internet [in New York State]	pilot project	65,000	Charles R. McClure et al.	Information Management Consultant Services, via NYSERnet, Inc.
PLA	1993	Information about library programs serving multicultural and/or multilingual populations	national survey	1,000	Lee Olivier, Robert Belvin, Sylvia Manoogian	Services to Multicultural Populations Committee of the PLA
OCLC	1993	Empirical test of gopher searching using three organizational schemes	field test	10,000	C. Olivia Frost & Joseph Janes	University of Michigan
Andrew W. Mellon Fndtn.	1993	Research Libraries Project		50,000		ARL & Association of American Universities
Illinois State Library	1994	Impact of school library media centers on academic achievement	survey	11,000	Edward Lakner	University of Illinois Library Research Center
Illinois State Library	1994	Impact of ISL per capita grant program on quality of library service	survey	6,000	Edward Lakner	University of Illinois Library Research Center
OCLC	1994	Developing control mechanisms for intellectual access for discipline-based libraries	model develop-ment	10,000	Marcia Lei Zent	Kent State University
CLR	1994	Cost-benefits of access compared to ownership costs for expensive research journals	assess-ment	54,012	Eleanor A. Gossen and Suzanne Irving	University at Albany Fndtn., Albany, NY
CLR	1994	Benchmarking pilot project on interlibrary loan	pilot project	17,540	Intern. Systems Services Corp. and Jack A. Siggins	ARL
CLR	1994	Analytical framework and baseline for networked information resources and services	baseline study	25,000		Coalition for Networked Information
CLR	1994	Search patterns of in-library on-line catalog users	case study	4,083		University of California, Santa Cruz
CLR	1994	Attitudes of municipal and county officials toward public libraries	survey and analysis	12,000		University of Illinois, Library Research Center
Carnegie Corporation of New York	1994	Implications of technology developments for higher education and scholarly communication	baseline study	180,000		Commission on Preserva- tion and Access
Nathan Cummngs Fndtn.	1994	Forums to assess societal impact of emerging international information infrastructure	confer-ence	10,000		Aspen Institute
Mardag Fndtn.	1994	Library Equity and Excellence Project, designed to support library improvement and school reform in elementary school libraries in Saint Paul	demon-stration project	105,000		Saint Paul Public Education Fund, Saint Paul, MN
Andrew W. Mellon Fndtn.	1994	Comprehensive evaluation methodology for ongoing activities in creating digital library	develop-ment	700,000		Columbia University
Andrew W. Mellon Fndtn.	1994	Research project on economics of electronic library of the future	assess-ment	290,000		Princeton University
Andrew W. Mellon Fndtn.	1994	Journal Storage Project, to make back issues or core periodicals available to faculty and students in digital format	pilot phase of project	700,000		Univ. Michigan
Andrew W. Mellon Fndtn.	1994	Journal Storage Project test sites	field tests	75,000		Five private colleges
Kellogg Fndtn.	1995	Buildings, books, and bytes: libraries and communities in the digital age; report on public?s opinion of library leaders? vision of the future	survey and analysis	100,000		Benton Foundation
H.W. Wilson Fndtn.	1995	Concerns about fundraising by public institutions: public libraries as a case study	case study	37,950	Thomas A. Jeavons	Urban Libraries Council
OCLC	1995	Creating DTDs via the GB-Engine and Fred	design and test	NA	Keith E. Shafer	OCLC
CLR	1995	Information locator system prototype	demon-stration project	24,880		New York State Library, Albany
W.K. Kellogg Fndtn.	1995	Institutional and policy issues in development of Digital Library	assess--ment	650,000		Harvard University
John and James Knight Fndtn.	1995	Project at branches serving disadvantaged neighborhoods	demon-stration project	100,000		Philadelphia Free Library
Lilly Endow-ment	1995	Technological development in theological libraries	applied research	133,650		Auburn Theological Seminary
Andrew W. Mellon Fndtn.	1995	Electronic journals in field of religious studies 1995	feasibil-ity study	250,000		Emory University
Andrew W. Mellon Fndtn.	1995	Study of interlibrary loan	assess-ment	160,000		ARL
OCLC	1995	Creating DTDs via the GB-Engine and Fred	design and test	NA	Keith E. Shafer	OCLC
OCLC	1995	Effect of linkage structure on retrieval performance and user response in a hypertext-based bibliographic system	field test	5,000	Alexandra Dimitroff & Dietmar Wolfram	Univ. Wisconsin, Milwaukee
Illinois State Library	1996	Impact of cooperative collection development on academic libraries of Illinois	survey	5,000	Edward Lakner	University of Illinois Library Research Center
Illinois State Library	1996	15-year cost-benefit analysis of Illinois public libraries	statisti-cal analysis	6,000	Edward Lakner	University of Illinois Library Research Center
OCLC	1996	Impact of scholarly journals on scholarly communication: a reference and citation study	statisti-cal analysis	3,000-10,000	Stephen P.Harter	Indiana Univ.
OCLC	1996	An experimental study on graphical tables of contents	design and testing	3,000-10,000	Xia Lin	Univ. Kentucky
OCLC	1996	Analyzing the viability of using peer group holdings as an evaluation tool for public library adult fiction	statistical study	3,000-10,000	James H. Sweetland & Judith J. Senkevitch	Univ. Wisconsin, Milwaukee
OCLC	1996	A relational thesaurus: modeling semantic relationships using frames	exploratory study	3,000-10,000	Rebecca Green	Univ. Maryland, College Park
OCLC	1996	Automatic subject assignment via the Scorpion System; building tools for automatic subject recognition based on well-known schemes	design	NA	Keith E. Shafer	OCLC
OCLC	1996	Characteristics of articles requested through OCLC interlibrary loan	statistical analysis	NA	Chandra G. Prabha	OCLC
Libraries for the Future	1996	Private philanthropic funding of public libraries	baseline study	NA	Linda Kravitz et al.	Libraries for the Future
OCLC	1996	Impact of scholarly journals on scholarly communication: a reference and citation study	statistical analysis	3,000-10,000	Stephen P.Harter	Indiana Univ.
OCLC	1996	An experimental study on graphical tables of contents	design and testing	3,000-10,000	Xia Lin	Univ. Kentucky
OCLC	1996	Analyzing the viability of using peer group holdings as an evaluation tool for public library adult fiction	statistical study	3,000-10,000	James H. Sweetland & Judith J. Senkevitch	Univ. Wisconsin, Milwaukee
OCLC	1996	A relational thesaurus: modeling semantic relationships using frames	exploratory study	3,000-10,000	Rebecca Green	Univ. Maryland, College Park
OCLC	1996	Automatic subject assignment via the Scorpion System; building tools for automatic subject recognition based on well-known schemes	design	NA	Keith E. Shafer	OCLC
OCLC	1996	Characteristics of articles requested through OCLC interlibrary loan	statistical analysis	NA	Chandra G. Prabha	OCLC

This information was compiled from the National Library of Education's ERIC resources, NSF Searchable Databases, the Foundation Center's Grants Index, the Chronicle of Philanthropy, Libraries for the Future's database on philanthropic support for public libraries, and other sources.

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[Table VA: Journal Articles]