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Dissertation Information for Jennifer Ford Paustenbaugh

NAME:
- Jennifer Ford Paustenbaugh

DEGREE:
- Ph.D.

DISCIPLINE:
- Library and Information Science

SCHOOL:
- Indiana University (USA) (1999)

ADVISORS:
- Thomas E. Nisonger

COMMITTEE MEMBERS:
- Dwight F. Burlingame
- Herbert Ward Snyder
- Verna Leah Pungitore

MPACT Status: Fully Complete

Title: ARL academic library participation in capital/comprehensive fund-raising campaigns: An analysis of effectiveness and capacity

Abstract: This study examined academic library participation in capital/comprehensive fund-raising campaigns. The U.S. academic libraries selected for this study belong to the Association of Research Libraries and were involved in some phase of a campaign during the academic years 1994/95-1996/97. The concept of utility/prestige maximization as developed by Garvin (1980) provided the conceptual framework.

Institutional and fund-raising characteristics of effective fund-raising campaigns were identified in an extensive literature review. Utilizing several models of fund-raising effectiveness a capacity measure of fund-raising effectiveness was developed, which says that library campaign fund-raising effectiveness is the product of the percentage of the campaign goal achieved and the ratio of current and past voluntary institutional support. A more traditional measure of fund-raising effectiveness, a comparison of money raised by the library and money raised by the institution, was used to assess the convergent validity of the two measurements.

A questionnaire was administered to collect data on ARL library participation in capital/comprehensive fund-raising campaigns. Additional institutional and library data was gathered from published sources. Using the two measures of fund-raising effectiveness a list of most and least effective libraries was developed. The two measures provided limited convergence showing that attaining a high percentage of a campaign fund-raising goal and raising a high percentage of the institution's total voluntary support are not mutually inclusive activities. Highly effective libraries, or libraries that accomplished both, were a major focus of institutional campaigns, were full participants in the institutional prospect management system, and had a fund raiser assigned 100% of their time to the library fund-raising program. Fund-raising effectiveness, using either the traditional or capacity measure, was best explained by factors that maximized the library's prestige within the institution rather than outside the institution.

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calculated 2008-01-31 06:08:09

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