Performance Indicators and Standards for Polish Research Libraries

Derfert-Wolf, Lidia, Dobrzyńska-Lankosz, Ewa, Dziadkiewicz, Wanda, Górny, Mirosław, Górska, Elżbieta, Górski, Marek M., Jazdon, Artur, Sokołowska-Gogut, Anna and Widhardt, Teresa Performance Indicators and Standards for Polish Research Libraries. Library and Information Research, 2003, vol. 27, n. 87, pp. 17-28. [Journal article (Paginated)]

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Performance Indicators and Standards for Polish Research Libraries Abstract: The article discusses proposed standards for Polish research libraries evaluation. At the beginning, the authors present the situation of research libraries in Poland. They write about the effects of the social-political transformation in the 90s, present selected statistical data, and describe the progress in computerisation. The following part of the article relates to the currently applied in Poland standards of library evaluation. Discussed are e.g. the presently applied tools for data collection and analysis. The last part includes proposed methods for the preparation of standards and assessments for Polish research libraries.

Item type: Journal article (Paginated)
Keywords: research libraries, performance indicators, Polish research libraries, library evaluation
Subjects: A. Theoretical and general aspects of libraries and information. > AA. Library and information science as a field.
G. Industry, profession and education. > GZ. None of these, but in this section.
Depositing user: Kristina Brown
Date deposited: 18 Mar 2005
Last modified: 02 Oct 2014 12:00
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10760/6083

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