id author title date pages extension mime words sentence flesch summary cache txt crl-16067 Gerlich, Bella Karr; Berard, G. Lynn Testing the Viability of the READ Scale (Reference Effort Assessment Data)©: Qualitative Statistics for Academic Reference Services 2010-03-01 23 .pdf application/pdf 10467 438 52 There are two distinct areas of study in reference assessment that di- rectly influence our work: the measurement and evaluation of reference service and the means of recording reference transactions (both traditional and automated practices). There was a 52 percent return rate of an online survey of participants, with more than 80 percent of respondents indicating they would recommend or adopt the Scale for recording reference transactions. cache/crl-16067.pdf txt/crl-16067.txt