美国教育统计中心的大学图书馆统计

美国大学图书馆的调查主要由教育部、图书馆协会和联盟三个方面来进行,其中,美国教育部的大学图书馆调查覆盖面广、公开性强。该调查有为相关人员提供大学图书馆计划和比较分析的明确目的,注重保护各馆隐私;统计方法考虑周全,从对大学图书馆的定义和统计范围、统计时间、数据缺失处理、数据校验、统计流程,到数据分类统计、及早公布和尽可能公开,利用方便。调查表的不断修改反映了变化中的大学图书馆,调查表附有详细的填表说明。通过比较,可以看到我国的大学图书馆调查不能全面客观反映现状、统计数据不正确、统计理念和技术层面上的不足、统计数据的分析应用不足。

INTRODUCTION TO ACADEMIC LIBRARIES SURVEY BY NCES

Academic libraries surveys in America are mainly hold by NCES of the Department of Education, ACRL, ARL and Oberlin Group. The ALS by NCES, with a wider coverage and easy access, offers the concerning parties helps to plan the academic libraries and make comparisons while paying attention to the privacy. Taking many considerations into account, the statistic tables are convenient to use. With concrete explanations, the biennial revised questionnaire matches the developing academic libraries. The academic libraries statistics in China face the problems of data error, failing to show the facts, deficiency in the reasonable statistic theory and methodology and shortage of analysis.