to explore, develop,promote research and statistics that focus on the current needs of access to library resources including interlibrary loan, document delivery, remote circulation, access services, cooperative reference, cooperative collection development, remote storage, and/or other shared library services;
to develop activities and programs to encourage improvement in research skills among STARS members to provide programs and other activities which support the creation of the needed research and/or statistics;
to coordinate and communicate with other committees and groups within and outside STARS that focus on research and statistics.
