RELATIVE EFFICIENCY OF UNIVERSITY LIBRARIES IN CROATIA: A WINDOW DATA ENVELOPMENT ANALYSIS APPROACH

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I whakaputaina i:Management : Journal of Contemporary Management Issues vol. 30, no. 1 (2025), p. 31
Kaituhi matua: Čiković, Katerina Fotova
Ētahi atu kaituhi: Mandić, Antonija, Šipek, Tanja
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Sveuciliste u Splitu
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100 1 |a Čiković, Katerina Fotova  |u Katerina Fotova Čiković, University North, Croatia 
245 1 |a RELATIVE EFFICIENCY OF UNIVERSITY LIBRARIES IN CROATIA: A WINDOW DATA ENVELOPMENT ANALYSIS APPROACH 
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520 3 |a The main objective of this paper is to assess the efficiency of university libraries in Croatia in the period from 2018 to 2022, taking into account both the years before and after COVID-19. For this purpose, the study employed the well-known non-parametric Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) method, specifically the window DEA (WDEA), to analyse a sample of 8 university libraries in Croatia. The study considered three inputs (Number of books held, Number of library staff, and Actual allocated budget) and three outputs (Circulation, Number of books added, and Number of registered members). The findings indicate that none of the university libraries in Croatia demonstrated relative efficiency during the observed period. These results provide valuable insights for university management and policy makers. This study is characterised by its original approach, as it is the first known attempt to use the DEA method to assess the performance of academic libraries in Croatia and the South East European region. Glavni cilj ovog rada je procijeniti ucinkovitost sveutilisnih knjiznica и Hrvatskoj и razdoblju od 2018. do 2022. godine, uzimajuci и obzir godine prije 1 nakon pandemije COVID-19. U tu svrhu, istrazivanje koristi poznatu neparametrijsku metodu Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA), tocnije njezinu varijantu window DEA (WDEA), kako bi analiziralo uzorak od osam sveucilisnih knjiznica и Hrvatskoj. Uistrazivanju su koristena tri ulazna pokazatelja (broj knjiga и knjiznici, broj zaposlenika knjiznice i stvarno dodijeljeni proracun) te tri izlazna pokazatelja (broj posudbi, broj novih knjiga i broj registriranih lanova). Rezultati pokazuju da nijedna od analiziranih sveucilisnih knjiZnica nije pokazala relativnu ucinkovitost tijekom promatranog razdoblja. Ovi nalazi pruzaju vrijedne uvide za upravljanje sveucilistima i donositelje politika и podruéju visokog obrazovanja. Ovaj rad je jedinstven po svom pristupu, buduci da predstavlja prvi poznati pokusaj primjene DEA metode za procjenu uspjesnosti akademskih knjiznica и Hrvatskoj 1 regiji Jugoistocne Europe. 
651 4 |a Croatia 
653 |a Teaching 
653 |a Higher education 
653 |a Information literacy 
653 |a Data envelopment analysis 
653 |a Colleges & universities 
653 |a Policy making 
653 |a Academic libraries 
653 |a Collection management 
653 |a Distance learning 
653 |a Efficiency 
653 |a Library users 
653 |a COVID-19 
653 |a Library management 
653 |a Decision making 
653 |a Pandemics 
653 |a Epidemics 
653 |a Librarians 
653 |a Digital Age 
653 |a Coronaviruses 
653 |a Libraries 
653 |a Data analysis 
653 |a Data 
653 |a Academic achievement 
700 1 |a Mandić, Antonija  |u Antonija Mandić, University North, Croatia 
700 1 |a Šipek, Tanja  |u Tanja Šipek, University North, Croatia 
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