| Sponsor | Program | Focus | Type | Funding | P.I. | Institution |
| University Wisconsin Institute on Race and Ethnicity & University Wisconsin Graduate School | 1988 | Toward a conceptual model of factors influencing the outcome of challenges to library materials in school settings | literature survey and analysis | Dianne McAfee Hopkins | University of Wisconsin, Madison | |
| CLR | 1988 | Microcomputer-based digital imaging as a technique for preserving library materials | field test | 2,500 | UCLA | |
| CLR | 1988 | To study users of full-text databases | case study | 2,988 | Carol Tenopir, Diane Nahl-Jakobovits, Dara Lee Howard | University of Hawaii, Manoa |
| CLR | 1988 | Perceived values of advanced subject degrees | case study | 3,000 | Mary Grosch & Terry Weech | University of Illinois, Urbana |
| CLR | 1988 | Information needs of philosophers | baseline study | 34,625 | Mary Ellen Sievert | University of Missouri, Columbia |
| Illinois State Library | 1988 | Survey of children?s librarians in Illinois public libraries | survey | Lorienne Roy | University of Texas Austin |
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| OCLC | 1988 | Analytical study of bibliographic data on a title page | assessment | 3,000-10,000 | Billie Grace Herring | Univ. Texas, Austin |
| OCLC | 1988 | Applying the revised MARC format for three-dimensional objects in museums | assessment | 3,000-10,000 | Esther G. Bierbaum | Univ. Iowa, Iowa City |
| OCLC | 1988 | Evaluating subject collections | design and test | 3,000-10,000 | Howard D. White | Drexel Univ. |
| OCLC | 1988 | Measurement of subject scatter in the superintendent of documents classification | case study and design | 3,000-10,000 | Lee Shiflett | LSU |
| OCLC | 1988 | Subject representations in monographic records | assessment | 3,000-10,000 | Pamela Reekes McKirdy | Simmons College |
| OCLC | 1988-89 | Enhancing topical searching using classification clustering | exploratory study | 3,000-10,000 | Ray R. Larson | Univ. California, Berkeley |
| OCLC | 1988-89 | Relationship between library holdings and selection sources | survey analysis | 3,000-10,000 | Judith Serebnick | Indiana Univ. |
| OCLC | 1988-89 | Automated document architecture processing and tagging (ADAPT) | design | NA | Stuart L. Weibel | OCLC |
| OCLC | 1988-89 | Bibliographic control and document architecture in hypermedia databases | assessment | NA | Roland Hjerppe | OCLC |
| OCLC | 1988-89 | Cataloger's assistant; prototype system for supporting the cataloging function | design and testing | NA | Diane Vizine-Goetz | OCLC |
| OCLC | 1988-89 | Cataloging time and workflow studies; in 1 public and 3 academic libraries | case study | NA | Chandra G. Prabha | OCLC |
| OCLC | 1988-89 | Design of interfaces and databases for electronic media (DIADEM) | assessment | NA | Martha J. Lindeman | OCLC |
| OCLC | 1988-89 | Document image processing toolbox | design | NA | John C. Handley | OCLC |
| OCLC | 1988-89 | Enhanced bibliographic retrieval | assessment | NA | Martin Dillon | OCLC |
| OCLC | 1988-89 | The Experimental Library System (XLS) | design and testing | NA | Thomas B. Hickey | OCLC |
| CLR | 1989 | Knowledge management: expanding the scholarly role of research libraries | assess-ment | 182,808 | Johns Hopkins University | |
| Policy Research Institute, University Texas Austin | 1989 | AIDS information services in U.S. public libraries: national comparison of attitudes | survey | W.Bernard Lukenbill | University of Texas, Austin | |
| Andrew W. Mellon Fndtn. | 1989 | University Libraries and Scholarly Communication | baseline study | Anthony Cummings et al. | ||
| CLR | 1989 | Academic administrators? views on the role of college libraries | survey and analysis | 1,830 | Larry Hardesty & David Kasser | Eckerd College |
| CLR | 1989 | Unobtrusive testing of reference service in a divisional academic library | case study | 1,800 | Cheryl Elzy, Alan Nourie, F.W. Lancaster | Illinois State University Normal--Bloomington |
| CLR | 1989 | Scope and impact of bookmobile service in the U.S. | assessment | 3,000 | Bert R. Boyce & Judith I. Boyce | LSU |
| CLR | 1989 | Use of MARC formats for cataloging art objects | field test | 20,000 | Museum Computer Network, Syracuse, NY | |
| CLR | 1989 | Editing efficiency of an on-line bibliographic information system | case study | 2,350 | North Carolina State University, Raleigh | |
| CLR | 1989 | Impact of interdisciplinary research on library collection-building | assess-ment | 3,000 | Rutgers University | |
| CLR | 1989 | Economic analysis of scholarly periodical costs | baseline study | 27,800 | Stanford University | |
| CLR | 1989 | Test of measures and correlates of academic library performance | field test | 3,000 | University of California, Berkeley | |
| CLR | 1989 | Humanists? use of libraries | case study | 23,000 | University of Illinois, Chicago | |
| CLR | 1989 | Application of behavioral research methodology to environmental design problems in libraries | explora-tory study | 2,587 | University of Illinois, Urbana | |
| CLR | 1989 | Improving subject searching in online catalogs | exploratory study | Karen Markey Drabenstott & Diane Vizine-Goetz | Univ. Michigan; OCLC | |
| CLR | 1989 | Advanced retrieval methods for online catalogs | survey and design of model | Edward A. Fox | Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State Univ. | |
| OCLC | 1989-90 | General structure of a knowledge base for Anglo-American cataloging rules | exploratory study | 3,000-10,000 | Ling Hwey Jeng | Univ. Maryland, College Park |
| OCLC | 1989-90 | Identifying barriers to effective subject access in library catalogs | case study | 3,000-10,000 | F.W. Lancaster | Univ. Illinois, Urbana- Champaign |
| OCLC | 1989-90 | Investigating the structure of LCC and LCSH: developing a knowledge base | assessment | 3,000-10,000 | Dagobert Soergel | Univ. Maryland, College Park |
| OCLC | 1989-90 | Toward integration of online resources | exploratory study | 3,000-10,000 | Linda C. Smith et al. | Univ. Illinois, Urbana-Champaign |
| OCLC | 1989-90 | The interlibrary loan process; data from 1 public and 1 academic library | case study | NA | Chanrda G. Prabha | OCLC |
| CLR | 1990 | Environmental factors in professional development activities: does type of academic library affiliation make a difference? | survey analysis | 2,936 | W. Michael Havener and Philip Worrell | University of Oklahoma |
| American Library Associa-tion | 1990 | Information Services to Small Businesses from Public Libraries | design and field test | 10,000 | Evelyn Daniel | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill |
| University Illinois, Urbana-Champaign | 1990 | Gender differences in attitudes toward using computers in libraries: an exploratory study | case study | 1,600 | Frances F. Jacobson | University High School Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign |
| Millbrook Press, Inc. | 1990 | The Millbrook Report: the changing role of the school library | inter-views & survey | |||
| CLR | 1990 | Comparison of on-line and manual search capabilities of students | case study | 1,000 | Kent State University | |
| CLR | 1990 | Information seeking behavior of scientists | case study | 5,150 | University of Colorado, Boulder | |
| CLR | 1990 | Study of searching strategies on CD-ROM | 32,512 | University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana | ||
| OCLC | 1990 | Public libraries and the INTERNET/NREN, to explore roles for the public library in the networked environment | survey | 10,000 | Charles R. McClure et al. | Syracuse Univ. |
| OCLC | 1990-91 | Automatic hierarchical organization of phrases using machine-readable dictionary information | design and prototype | 3,000-10,000 | Amy J. Warner | Univ. Michigan |
| OCLC | 1990-91 | Determining the content of machine-readable subdivision records | exploratory study | 3,000-10,000 | Karen Markey Drabenstott | Univ. Michigan |
| OCLC | 1990-91 | Expert system interface to Library of Congress subject headings | design | 3,000-10,000 | Padmini Srinivasan | Univ. Iowa, Iowa City |
| OCLC | 1990-91 | Scholars' access to the documents they cite | survey analysis | 3,000-10,000 | Keith Swigger | Texas Woman's Univ. |
| OCLC | 1990-91 | Obsolete Library of Congress Subject headings | assessment and design | NA | Roy Cheng et al. | Western Illinois Univ. & OCLC |
| OCLC | 1990-91 | Record matching for authority control | assess-ment | NA | Edward T. O'Neill | OCLC |
| University of Illinois SILS | 1991 | National opinion poll on public library issues | survey | 25,000 | Leigh Estabrook | University of Illinois Library Research Center |
| CLR | 1991 | Conference on public library effectiveness | confer-ence | 16,760 | Drexel University | |
| CLR | 1991 | Comparison of journal use to reported relative value, college discipline, and subscription cost | assess-ment | 3,000 | Texas A&M University | |
| CLR | 1991 | Effects of integrating information technology on job classification and compensation systems | case study | 18,560 | Anne Woodsworth | University of Pittsburgh |
| OCLC | 1991 | Public libraries and the INTERNET/NREN, to explore roles for the public library in the networked environment | survey | 10,000 | Charles R. McClure et al. | Syracuse University |
| Assoc. College Research Libraries & Consulting Psychologists Press | 1991-92 | Shattering our stereotype: librarians? new image | survey and analysis | 15,000 | Mary Jane Scherdin | Edgewood College Library |
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