Florida State University, College of Information

Charles R. McClure

Francis Eppes Professor and Director
Information Use Management and Policy Institute

Charles  R. McClure

Biography

Information Use Management and Policy Institute

College of Information
Florida State University 
Louis Shores Building, Room 226 
Tallahassee, FL 32306-2100 

Phone: 850-644-8109 
Fax: 850-644-9763 
E mail: cmcclure@lis.fsu.edu

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2008

LIS 5270/6919: Evaluating Networked Information Services and Systems.

Methodological Problems and Solutions in Evaluating Remote Reference Service: A Practical Guide. Portal: Libraries and the Academy, in press (with others).

Learning and Using Evaluation: A Practical Introduction, in Brooke Sheldon, ed., The Portable MLIS: Insights from the Experts. Westport, CT: Libraries Unlimited (in press).

Citizen-centered E-Government Services: Benefits, Costs, and Research Needs. Montreal: Proceedings of the Digital Government Conference.


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2007

Public Libraries and Internet Access across the United States: A comparison of Public Library Internet Access by State Information Technology and Libraries, 26:2 (June): 4-14., with others.

A Test of Leadership: Charting the Future of U.S. Higher Education. A Report of the Commission Appointment by Secretary of Education Margaret Spellings. Washington, D.C.: U.S. Department of Education, 2006. A Review Essay. Library Quarterly, 77:1 (January): 89-92. Available: http://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/pdf/10.1086/512957

Public Libraries and the Internet 2006: Issues, funding, and challenges. Public Libraries, 46 (September – October): 71:78 (with others).

Libraries Connect Communities: Public Library Funding & Technology Access Study 2006-2007 http://www.ala.org/ala/ors/publiclibraryfundingtechnologyaccessstudy/pullibfunandtechaccstudy.cfm

Assessing Sufficiency and Quality of Bandwidth for Public Libraries. Information Technology and Libraries, 26:1 (March): 14-22 (with John Bertot).

The Looming Infrastructure Plateau? Space, Funding, Connection Speed and the Ability of Public Libraries to Meet the Demand for Free Internet Service. First Monday, December (with others). Available only online at: http://www.uic.edu/htbin/cgiwrap/bin/ojs/index.php/fm/article/view/2017/1907

Developing best-fit evaluation strategies (pdf), Proceedings of the Library Assessment Conference, edited by Francine DeFranco et al. Washington, DC: Association of Research Libraries, 225-232, with others.

Web-based evaluation instructional systems: Design, development, issues, & considerations (pdf), Proceedings of the Library Assessment Conference, edited by Fracine DeFranco et al. Washington, DC: Association of Reserach Libraries, 425-436, with others.

Program evaluation of the Library Services and Technology Act plan for implementation in North Carolina, 2003-2007 (March, 2007)

  • By Pomerantz, J.,  Hank, C., & McClure, C. R.

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2006

Peer review of chat reference transcripts: Approaches and strategies

  • By Charles R. McClure, et al.
  • Library and Information Science Research

Public libraries and the Internet 2006: Study results and findings (September 2006)

  • By John Carlo Bertot, Charles R. McClure, Paul T. Jaeger, & Ryan J.

Costing reference: Issues, approaches, and directions for research

  • By David R. Lankes, Melissa Gross, and Charles R. McClure
  • The Reference Librarian, 46(95/96), 171-184

Drafted: I want you to deliver E-Government

  • By Bertot, J.C., Jaeger, P.T., Langa, L.A., & McClure, C.R.
  • Library Journal, 131, 34-37 (August 2006)

Public access computing and Internet access in public libraries: The role of public libraries in e–government and emergency situations (September 2006)

  • By John Carlo Bertot, Paul T. Jaeger, Lesley A. Langa, and Charles R. McClure
  • First Monday, 11( 9)

The policy implications of Internet connectivity in public libraries

  • By Paul T. Jaeger, John Carlo Bertot, Charles R. McClure, and Lesley A Langa
  • Government Information Quarterly, 23(1), 123-141

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2005

Minimizing intrusion of desktop records management for federal government

  • By Charles R. McClure and Timothy J. Sprehe
  • The Information Management Journal
  • Management Journal, Vol. 39 (4): 47-52

CIPA: Decisions, implementation, and impacts

  • By Paul T. Jaeger, Charles R. McClure, John Carlo Bertot, and Lesley A Langa (2005)
  • Public Libraries 44(2), pp.105-109

Developing multi-method, iterative, and user-centered evaluation strategies for digital libraries: functionality, usability, and accessibility

  • By John T. Snead, John Carlo Bertot, Paul T. Jaeger, and Charles R. McClure
  • Proceedings 68th Annual Meeting of the American Society for Information Science and Technology (ASIST) 42

Federal website policies pdf format (PDF)

  • By Charles R. McClure (November 2005)

Libraries struggle to meet Internet demand: New study shows libraries need support to sustain technology services

  • By John Carlo Bertot, Charles R. McClure, and Paul T. Jaeger (2005)
  • American Libraries 36(7), pp.78-79

NCknows evaluation final report pdf format (PDF)

  • By Jeffrey Pomerantz, Lili Luo, and Charles R. McClure

Seminar in Information Policy (Spring 2005)

The E-rate program and libraries and library consortia, 2000-2004: Trends and issues

  • By Paul T. Jaeger, Charles R. McClure, and John Carlo Bertot (2005)
  • Information Technology and Libraries 24(2), pp 57-67

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2004

Challenges and strategies for evaluating networked information servicespdf format (PDF)

  • By Charles R. McClure (editor)
  • Library Quarterly vol. 74 no 4

Evaluation of a statewide collaborative chat-based reference service: Approaches and directions

  • By Jeffrey Pomerantz, and Charles R. McClure (2004)
  • Proceedings of the 67th ASIS and T annual meeting 41 pp.102-109

Evaluation of selected components of the Florida Electronic Library: Functionality, usability, and accessibility

  • By John T. Snead, Charles R. McClure, Peter Jorgensen, John C. Bertot (Nov. 2004)

Florida Electronic Library statistics

  • By Charles R. McClure (Oct. 2004 - Sep. 2005)

Information management

  • By Paul T. Jaeger, Kim M. Thompson, and Charles R. McClure (2004)
  • The encyclopedia of social measurement 2 pp.277-282

Integrating public library databases onto a nationwide digital basemap for enhanced library services

  • By Christie M. Koontz, Dean. K. Jue, Charles R. McClure, and John Carlo Bertot (2004)
  • Public Libraries 43(2), pp.113-118

Key issues, themes, and future directions for evaluating networked services

  • By Charles R. McClure (2004)
  • Planning and evaluating networked services in libraries pp.333-348

Potential legal challenges to the application of the Childrens Internet Protection Act (CIPA) in public libraries: Strategies and issues

  • By Paul T. Jaeger and Charles R. McClure

Strategies for collecting networked statistics: Practical suggestions

  • By Charles R. McClure (2004)
  • VINE: The Journal of Information and Knowledge Management Systems 34(4), pp.166-171

TexShare longitudinal analysis: Final report pdf format (PDF)

  • By William E. Moen, Fatih Oguz, and Charles R. McClure

The challenges of nonstandized vendor data in a statewide meta search environment: The Library of Texas experiencepdf format (PDF)

  • By William E. Moen, Fatih Oguz, and Charles R. McClure (2004)
  • Library Quarterly 74(4), pp.403-422

The effects of the Children's Internet Protection Act (CIPA) in public libraries and its implications for research: A statistical, policy, and legal analysis

  • By Paul T. Jaeger, John Carlo Bertot, and Charles R. McClure (2004)
  • Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology 55(13), pp.1131-1139

The USA PATRIOT Act, the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, and information policy research in libraries: Issues, impacts, and questions for library researchers pdf format (PDF)

  • By Paul T. Jaeger, Charles R. McClure, John Carlo Bertot, and Snead, J. T. (2004)
  • Library Quarterly 74(2), pp.99-121

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2003

Assessing network services: An update pdf format (PDF)

  • By Charles R. McClure, et al. (2003)
  • SCONUL [Society of College, National, and University Libraries, UK] Newsletter 29(Fall), pp.27-34

Assessment Criteria and Guidelines for Selected Projects Related to the Florida Electronic Library

  • By Charles R. McClure and John Carlo Bertot (2003)

Cost, statistics, measures, and standards for digital reference services: A preliminary view

  • By David R. Lankes, Melissa Gross, and Charles R. McClure (2003)
  • Library Trends 51(3), pp.401-413

Evaluating federal websites: Improving e-government for the people

Measures and statistics to assess the Florida Electronic Library (FEL) pdf format (PDF), Evaluation Plan for the FEL

  • By Charles R. McClure, J. Snead, John Carlo Bertot, and Kim M. Thompson (2003)

Florida Electronic Library Pilot Project Functionality Assessment

  • By John Carlo Bertot, Charles R. McClure, Kim M. Thompson, Paul T. Jaeger, Lesley Langa (2003)

Outcomes assessment in the networked environment: Research questions, issues, considerations, and moving forward

  • By John Carlo Bertot and Charles R. McClure (2003)
  • Library Trends 51(4), pp.590-613

Public libraries and the internet 2002: Internet connectivity and network services pdf format

  • By John Carlo Bertot and Charles R. McClure

Study shows new funding sources crucial to technology services in public libraries

  • By John Carlo Bertot, Charles R. McClure, and Joe Ryan (2003)
  • American Libraries 33(3), pp.57-59

The impact of the USA Patriot Act on collection and analysis of personal information under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act pdf format

  • By Paul T. Jaeger, John Carlo Bertot, and Charles R. McClure

LIS 5413: Course Syllabus, Seminar in Federal Information Policies


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2002

ARL E-Metrics project: Toward a framework of library and institutional outcomes pdf format (PDF)

  • By Bruce T. Fraser and Charles McClure (January 2002)

Assessing quality in digital reference services: An overview of key literature on digital reference

  • By Melissa Gross, Charles R. McClure, and David R. Lankes (2002)
  • Implementing digital reference services: Setting standards and making it real pp.171-183

Assessing quality in digital reference services: Preliminary findings

  • By Melissa Gross, Charles R. McClure, and David R. Lankes (2002)
  • Implementing digital reference services: Setting standards and making it real pp.185-194

Data needs and use of electronic resources and services at academic research libraries pdf format

  • By Wonsik Shim and Charles R. McClure
    Portal: Libraries and the Academy, Volume 2 no. 2

Describing the economic impacts and benefits of Florida public libraries: Findings and methodological applications for future work

  • By Bruce T. Fraser, Timothy W. Nelson, and Charles R. McClure (2002)
  • Library and Information Science Research 24 pp.211-233

Developing national data collection models for U.S. public library network statistics and performance measures: Findings, issues, and and recommendations

  • By John Carlo Bertot and Charles R. McClure (2002)
  • Proceedings of the 4th North Umbria International Conference on Performance Measures in Library and Information Services pp.77-86

E-government initiatives, developments, and issues

  • By Duncan Aldrich, D., John Carlo Bertot, and Charles R. McClure (2002)
  • Government Information Quarterly 19(4), pp.349-356

Federal information policy issues: Update and overview

  • By Charles R. McClure(March, 2002)
  • Proceedings of Information Strategies 2001 Annual Conference, Florida Gulf Coast University, Ft. Myers Florida

Identifying and measuring library activities/services related to academic institutional outcomes

  • By Charles McClure, Bruce T. Fraser, Wonsik Shim, and John Carlo Bertot (January 2002)

Impact of external technology funding programs in public libraries: A study of LSTA, E-rate, Gates, and others

  • By John Carlo Bertot, Charles R. McClure, and Joe Ryan (2002)
  • Public Libraries 41(3), pp.166-171

Implementing digital reference services: Setting standards and making it real

  • By David R. Lankes, Charles R. McClure, Melissa Gross and Jeffrey Pomerantz (Editors)
  • New York: Neal-Schuman, 2002
    ISBN 1-55570-450-6

Improving database vendors' usage statistics reporting through collaboration between libraries and vendors pdf format

  • By Wonsik Shim and Charles R. McClure
    College & Research Libraries, Volume 63 no. 6

Information policy-based indicators to assess U.S. federal websites: Methods and issues

  • By Charles R. McClure, et al. (2002)
  • Proceedings of the 4th North Umbria International Conference on Performance Measures in Library and Information Services pp.145-154

Preliminary statistics and measures for ARL libraries to describe electronic resources and services

  • By Charles R. McClure, et al. (2002)
  • Proceedings of the 4th North Umbria International Conference on Performance Measures in Library and Information Services pp.337-344

Public libraries and Internet public access models: Describing possible approaches

Public library Internet services and the digital divide: The role and impacts from selected external funding sources

  • By Charles R. McClure, Joe Ryan, and John Carlo Bertot (January 2002)

Statistics, measures and quality standards for assessing digital reference library services: Guidelines and procedures pdf format

  • By Charles R. McClure, David R. Lankes, Melissa Gross, and Beverly Choltco-Devlin

Study shows new funding sources crucial to libraries' technology services

The role of situational factors in managing U. S. federal recordkeeping

  • By Timothy J. Sprehe, Charles R. McClure, and Philip Zellner (2002)
  • Government Information Quarterly 19(3), pp.317-326

The structures of centralized governmental privacy protection: Approaches, models, and analysis

  • By Paul T. Jaeger, Charles R. McClure, and Bruce T. Fraser (2002)
  • Government Information Quarterly 19(3), pp.317-336

Toward a framework for assessing library and institutional outcomes pdf format (PDF)

  • By Bruce T. Fraser, Charles R. McClure, and Emily H. Leahy
    Portal: Libraries and the Academy Volume 2 no. 2

Update on U.S. federal information policies pdf format (PDF)

  • By Charles R. McClure, John Carlo Bertot, Timothy J. Sprehe, and Bortnick J. Griffith (2002)
  • Information connections and community: Proceedings of the 65th ASIST annual meeting 39 pp.456-457

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2001

Assessing federal websites: Preliminary findings and key issues

  • By Charles R. McClure (2001)
  • Documents to the People [DttP] 29(1), pp.12-19

Assessing quality in digital reference services

  • By David R. Lankes, Charles R. McClure, and Melissa Gross (2001)
  • Information in a Networked World, Harnessing the Flow, Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the American Society for Information Science and Technology pp.323-328

Choosing measures to evaluate networked information resources and services: Selected issues

  • By Joe Ryan, Charles R. McClure, and John Carlo Bertot (2001)
  • Evaluating networked information services: Techniques, policy, and issues pp.111-136

Creating stability and equity in Michigan public libraries: Ending the crisis: Final report pdf format (PDF)

  • By Charles R. McClure, Gaelynn W. Bordonaro, and Bruce Smith

Data collection manual for academic and research library network statistics and performance measures

  • By Wonsik Shim, Charles McClure, Bruce T. Fraser, and John Carlo Bertot (December 2001)

Evaluating Networked Information Services: Techniques, Policy and Issues

  • By Charles R. McClure and John Carlo Bertot
  • Medford, NJ: Information Today
    ISBN 0-910965-71-4

Facets of digital reference, the virtual reference desk

  • 2nd Annual Digital Reference Conference: Seattle (October 16, 2000)

Introduction to evaluating networked services

  • By Charles R. McClure (2001)
  • Evaluating networked information services: Techniques, policy, and issues pp.xiii-xx

Key issues in virtual reference desk services: Taking action

  • By Charles R. McClure and Mike Eisenberg (2001)

Measures and statistics for research library networked services: Procedures and issues [Association of Research Libraries, E-metrics Phase II Report]

  • By Wonsik Shim, Charles R. McClure, and John Carlo Bertot

Network literacy in an electronic society: An educational disconnect

  • By Charles R. McClure (2001)
  • Media literacy in the information age: Current Perspectives pp.403-440

Obtaining descriptive data to describe database use and users: Plicy issues and strategies

  • By Charles R. McClure
  • National Research Council: Proceedings of the Second national Conference on Scientific and Technical Data: Data for Science and Technology

Report on current recordkeeping practices with the federal government pdf format (PDF)

  • National Archives and Records Administration [with others] (December 10, 2001)

Using U.S. information policies to evaluate federal websites

  • By Charles R. McClure and Timothy J. Sprehe (2001)
  • Evaluating networked information services: Techniques, policy, and issues pp.255-292

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2000

Developing national data collection models for public library network statistics and performance measures

  • By John Carlo Bertot and Charles R. McClure (2000)
  • Funded by the National Istitute of Museum and Library Services

Developing national library network statistics and performance measures for U. S. public libraries: Issues, findings, and recommendations

  • By John Carlo Bertot, Charles R. McClure, and Joe Ryan (2000)
  • Performance Measures and Metrics: The International Journal for Library and Information Services 1(1), pp.15-42

Developing networked statistics and performance measures for U.S. libraries: Issues, findings, and recommendations

  • By John Carlo Bertot and Charles R. McClure (2000)
  • Performance Measures 2(1), pp.89-116

Developing national library network statistics and performance measures: Methodologies, models, and issues

  • By John Carlo Bertot, Charles R. McClure and Colleen Ostiguy (2000)
  • Conference Proceedings of 2000 Annual Information Resources Management Association Conference 1(1)

Economic benefits and impacts from public libraries in the state of Florida 

  • By Charles R. McClure, Bruce T. Fraser, Timothy W. Nelson, and Jane B. Robbins

Federal information policies affecting public access to web-based federal information

  • By Charles R. McClure (2000)
  • Proceedings of the 63rd American Society for Information Science and Technology pp.224-245

Federal information policy and access to web-based federal information

  • By Bruce Smith, Bruce T. Fraser, and Charles R. McClure (2000)
  • Journal of Academic Librarianship 26(4), pp.274-281
  • By Charles R. McClure, Timothy J. Sprehe, and Kristen Eschenfelder
  • Sponsored by GPO, DTIC AND EIA

Measuring services, resources, users, and use in the networked environment

  • By Wonsik Shim, and Charles R. McClure (2000)
  • ARL 210 pp.9-10

Preliminary issues for redesigning a national data collecting and reporting system for public libraries in the USA

  • By Charles R. McClure (2000)
  • Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Performance Measures in Libraries and Information Centers pp.43-52
Public libraries and the Internet 2000: Summary findings and data tables pdf format
  • By John Carlo Bertot and Charles R. McClure (September 7, 2000)
  • Funded by the National Commission on Libraries and Information Science

Public library Internet services: Impacts on the digital divide

  • By John Carlo Bertot and Charles R. McClure (August 20, 2000) 

Obtaining descriptive data to describe database use and users: Policy issues and strategies

  • By Charles R. McClure (2000)
  • Proceedings of the Second National Conference on Scientific and Technical Data: Data for science and society
Statistics and performance measures for public library networked services
  • By John Carlo Bertot, Charles R. McClure, and Joe Ryan (2000)
  • Chicago: American Library Association
    ISBN
    : 0-838907962

The Chief Information Officer (CIO): Assessing its impact


1999

  • By John Bertot, Charles R. McClure, Joe Ryan (June 1999)
  • By Charles R. McClure   
  • By Charles R. McClure

1998 

Analysis and development of model quality guidelines for electronic records management on state and federal websites - a research project funded by the National Historical Publications and Records Commission (NHPRC)  
  • By John Carlo Bertot and Charles R. McClure (March 1998) 

1997

  • By Charles R. McClure and John Carlo Bertot (October, 1997)
  • By William E. Moen and Charles R. McClure (June, 1997)
  • By Charles R. McClure and John Carlo Bertot (December, 1997) 

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1996 

  • By Charles R. McClure, Syracuse University and Sarah Ormes, UKOLN (1996)
  • By John Carlo Bertot and Charles R. McClure (September, 1996)
  • By John Carlo Bertot, Charles R. McClure and Douglass L. Zweizig

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 1995

Internet costs and cost models for public libraries: Final report
  • By Charles R. McClure, John Carlo Bertot, and John C. Beachboard (1995)