Table 2 compares the mean scores of UI graduate students with the three other UI survey
groups. The total mean scores for graduate students show their perceived level of
service is 7.00 with a positive adequacy gap of 0.49, indicating their satisfaction exceeded
their minimum expectations. There was a negative superiority gap of –0.88,
indicating their perceived level of service is not as great as their desired level of service.
The significant findings from this internal benchmarking are as follows:
• Graduate students and faculty have high minimal levels of acceptable service
and desired service in the information control dimension.
• Overall, faculty perceptions of quality in information control are below their
minimal acceptable levels. Even though the mean adequacy gap score for graduate
students in information control is positive, the score for one specific question:
“IC-8: Print and or electronic journal collections I require for my work”
was –0.37.
• Undergraduates have the highest levels of both minimal acceptable service and
desired service in the library as place dimension. Graduate students have the
next highest level of minimal acceptable service but are slightly below staff in
desired level of service.
• In the affect of service dimension, for all four survey groups, the range between
the mean scores of both adequacy and superiority is less than the other two dimensions,
meaning that users highly value the human aspect of library services.