As a member of the collection assessment community, would you please review and send comments to me (l-lyons@northwestern.edu) in regard to this evolving website http://www.library.northwestern.edu/eraca/data_bank_info/top_level/nul_databank.html? The goal is to provide support and training for librarians who have collection development duties. Thank you for any suggestions, criticisms, etc. And thanks to Joe Zucca/Penn Library Data Farm for inspiration.
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Promoting Library Excellence through Lean, Six Sigma, Baldrige Award Criteria, Balanced Scorecard, and LibQual+.
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Wolfram Alpha shows data in a way Google can’t
Wolfram Alpha is like a cross between a research library, a graphing calculator, and a search engine. But does Wolfram Research’s “computational knowledge engine,” set to debut publicly later this month, live up to its hype as a Web site that Google needs to be [...]
Specializing on helping social and public sector organizations increase their impact.
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A good Balanced Scorecard starts with a good purpose statement. The purpose statement is a clear and concise statement of your organization’s goals in a way that everyone can understand. It’s your destination. But, to get to your [...]
Here are some outfits that have come to my attention:
National Business Research Institute: http://www.nbrii.com/
Digital Measures:www.digitalmeasures.com/
Outsell: http://outsell.com/
What is our distinct position in relation to these outfits — we emphasize our distinctive goal ‘to describe and measure the performance of libraries and their contribution to research, teaching and learning’, community building, association and value to our members [...]
The web site for the 2007 LibQUAL+(TM) Canada consortial survey is: http://library.queensu.ca/webir/canlibqual/carl-libqual.htm. Comments and suggestions are welcome.
Sam
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