DEANS RANK INDICATORS OF EFFECTIVENESS FOR SCHOOLS OF LIBRARY AND INFORMATION STUDIES

This article identifies indicators of effectiveness that deans of scho ols with American Library Association (ALA) accredited programs believ e are ''essential,'' ''important,'' or ''not important'' to know about a school of library and information studies (LIS) in order to evaluat e it. A previous article by the same authors focused on views that mem bers of four constituent groups of LIS schools hold about the same ind icators(1). Comparing deans with the constituent groups, there is 77 p ercent agreement between deans and members of ALA's Committee on Accre ditation (COA) over which indicators of effectiveness belong in each o f the three designated categories. There is less agreement between dea ns and senior academic administrators (70 percent), alumni (57 percent ), and employers (44 percent). Overall, deans focus heavily on adminis trative, faculty, and resource issues.