Characteristics of media service departments at mid-size universities

Media administrators and their institutions benefit from having comparable information about the knature of similar media service programs. This study stemmed from a need for information about the structure, staffing, physical space, and types of activities of media service departments at colleges and universities of similar size and type--public institutions with student enrollments between 5,000 and 10,000 students. A survey research project was completed to gain a "snapshot" of media service programs at those four-year state-supported colleges and universities with student enrollments between 5,000 and 10,000. Data for the study, which was conducted during the fall of 1992, were collected and analyzed during the following spring. Analysis of this data was used for long-range planning and decision making at the University of Southern Indiana.