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Assistant Director
313 Library & Information Science Bldg
501 E. Daniel, MC-439
Champaign, IL 61820
Ph: (217) 244-3301
Fax:(217) 244-3302
E-mail: lakner
at alexia.lis.uiuc.edu
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| Edward Lakner is associate director of the Library Research Center at the University of Illinois. Dr. Lakner is an expert in several areas of survey research, including questionnaire design, survey sampling, and the statistical analysis of survey response data. His experience spans over 30 years in both psychological and social research.
From 1970 to 1993 he served as project director at the University of Illinois Survey Research Laboratory, where he was supervisor of more than 50 social and opinion surveys conducted nationally and in the state of Illinois. Between 1985 and 1987, he was the senior coordinator of the "National Access to Health Care" survey funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, administered in a national telephone sample of 10,000 households.
Dr. Lakner has conducted methodological research and written/published papers in the areas of household respondent selection bias, effects of clustering in time-probability samples, optimum sample design for public library surveys, and use of cognitive interview techniques in questionnaire development as a supplement to traditional pretesting. He has served as a survey consultant to many libraries and organizations, and to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.
In the Library Research Center, he has supervised numerous sample surveys funded by sources that include the American Library Association, the Public Library Association, the Illinois State Library, and the Wallace-Reader's Digest Funds. He has also conducted marketing research for The H. W. Wilson Company and Blackwell North America, and a national study of public libraries and local governments funded by the Council on Library Resources.
Dr. Lakner holds a PhD in statistics from University of Illinois and a BA in psychology from the University of Colorado.
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