7th Northumbria International Conference on Performance Measurement in
 Libraries and Information Services

Programme
 

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13-16th August 2007,

Spier Wine Estate, between Cape Town and Stellenbosch, South Africa

CONFERENCE PROGRAMME

 
Monday 13 August:
09:00 - LibQUAL+ Exchange of Experience Workshop (This is a free event independent of the Northumbria Conference. Please register at: http:www.libqual.org/events/lqsouthafrica.cfm)
12:00 - 14:00 Registration
14:00 - 14:15 Welcome and introductions
14:15 - 15:15 KEYNOTE 1:  Karin de Jager. Quality in Higher Education & Libraries: a brief sketch of the South African scene
15:15 - 15:45 Tea/coffee break
15:45 - 16:30 PARALLEL SESSION 1 (Paper presentations)
  Thompson, Bruce; Kyrillidou, Martha; and Cook, C. Colleen. Library users' service expectations: a LibQUAL+ study of the range of what users will tolerate.
  Greenwood, Helen. Accounting for differences in library performance: comparing apples to oranges?
  Creaser, Claire; Conyers, Angela and Lokyer, Suzanne. VAMP - laying the foundations.
16:30 - 17:15 PARALLEL SESSION  2 (Paper presentations)
  Town, J. Stephen and Lock, Selena. LibQUAL+ in the UK & Ireland: five years experience
  Dole, Wanda V. et al. An Integrated Approach to Assessment and Planning: A Key to Organizational Change and Improvement.
  Lochbühler, Wilfried. Library Statistics and Benchmarking in Switzerland
17:15 - 18:00 PARALLEL SESSION 3 (Paper presentations)
  Høivik, Tord. The proper use of public money: an improved measure of productivity in public libraries based on Norwegian statistics.
  Jordan, Elizabeth Anne. LibStats – an open source online tool for collecting and reporting on statistics in an academic library.
  Johannsen, Carl Gustav. Meeting the changing predictable and unpredictable needs of users: an academic library case study.
 
Tuesday 14 August:
09:15 - 10:00 PARALLEL SESSION  4 (Paper presentations)
  Kyrillidou, Martha et al. DigiQUAL: a digital library evaluation service.
  Bray, Colin M. Libraries Inspire Learning – Opening up the Reading Experience.
  Meunier, Pierre. Proposed Balanced Scorecard Model for Montreal Public Libraries System.
10:00 - 11:00 KEYNOTE 2: Simon Ellis. Libraries in Culture and Public Information; measurement issues for UNESCO
11:00 - 11:30 Tea/coffee break
11:30 - 12:15 PARALLEL SESSION  5 (Paper presentations)
  Gannon-Leary, Pat; Webb, Jo; and Bent, Moira. Developing and managing effective library and information services to support research and researchers.
  Hammes, Monica and Mahlangu, April. e-Quality for equality.
  Jaggars, Damon E. and Smith, Shanna E. Service priority alignment in ARL member libraries.
12:15 - 13:00 PARALLEL SESSION  6 (Paper presentations)
  Hiller, Steve; Rambo, Neil; and Wilson, Lizabeth. Understanding and strengthening library connections to the university research enterprise: from assessment to action.
  Harlan, Brian. Library process management.
  Koontz, Christie; Jue, Dean K.; and Davis, Denise. Neighborhood level public library service to special populations: a review of critical data needed for optimal service provision.
13:00 - 14:00 Lunch
14.00-17.30 PARALLEL SESSION  7a
  Workshop 1: Developmental
De Jager, Karin with contribution from Jim Self.
Measures that matter: designing and developing your own programme of library evaluation using the balanced scorecard approach
  Workshop 2: Intermediate
Streatfield, David and Markless, Sharon.

Evaluating the impact of your library or information service: a practical introduction
14:00 - 18:15 PARALLEL SESSION  7b (Paper presentations)
  Bertot, John Carlo; Snead, John T.; and McClure, Charles R. Developing and implementing best-fit evaluation strategies for libraries.
  Davies, J. Eric. Building milestones on the road to better library management: The LISU experience of promoting research into practice.
  Short, Barry. Global Benchmarks for Large Urban Public Libraries: Developing a new statistical collection model for annual library statistics
  Broady-Preston, Judith. CRM and its usefulness in demonstrating quality in academic libraries: a partnership approach.
   
16.15-16.45 Tea/coffee break
   
Wednesday 15 August:
09:15-10:00 PARALLEL SESSION  8 (Paper presentations)
  Self, Jim. Bound for Disappointment: Journals and Faculty at Research Institutions
  Jacoby, JoAnn. Network and Cluster Analysis of Departmental Libraries Used by Faculty at a Large University Library.
  Nagata, Haruki; Sakai, Kanako; and Kawai, Tetsuya. Public Library and Users’ lifestyle in a Changing Context.
10.00-11.00 KEYNOTE 3. Peter Brophy. Telling the story: Qualitative approaches to measuring the performance of emerging library services
11.00-11.30 Tea/coffee break
11.30-12.15 PARALLEL SESSION  9 (Paper presentations)
  Smith Macklin, Alexius; Smith, Gordon W.; and Somerville, Mary M. A National Initiative to Assess and Advance ICT Literacy in Higher Education.
  Nyström, Viveca and Armini, Rikard. The value of library services: case study.
  Franklin, Brinley. Toward Meaningful Academic Library Ratio Analysis.
12.15-13.00 PARALLEL SESSION  10 (Paper presentations)
  Mundt, Sebastian. Measuring innovation in libraries and information services.
  Novak, Kevin and Pagano, Joe. Using Web Analytics to Plan Digital Library Development.
  Wilson, Frankie. The Quality Maturity Model.
13.00-14.00 Lunch
14.00-17.30 PARALLEL SESSION  11a
  Workshop 1: Developmental
Høivik, Tord.
Numbers that count. Selecting and using service indicators for public library development.
  Workshop 2: Intermediate
Fourie, Christa.
Developing Best Practices: How to Achieve Operational Excellence in Information Services.
14.00-18.15 PARALLEL SESSION  11b (Paper presentations)
  Markless, Sharon and Streatfield, David. Supported- Self-evaluation in assessing the impact of HE Libraries.
  Pors, Niels Ole. Social Capital, Trust and Organisational Effectiveness: Discrepancies between users service preferences and the library system’s construction of their needs.
  Segbert-Elbert, Monika et al. Assessing the impact of public access to computers and Internet in libraries.
  Thomas, Gwenda Mary Elsibe. Measuring institutional repositories and organizational effectiveness: strategic positioning between a rock and a hard place.
  Somerville, Mary M.; and Nino, Mary. Collaborative Co-Design: An Evidence-Based User-Centric Approach for Assessment and Advancement of Organizational Learning.
16.15-16.45 Tea/coffee break
   
Thursday 16 August:
09.00-09.45 PARALLEL SESSION  12 (Paper presentations)
  Petr, Kornelija. Quality measurement of Croatian public and academic libraries: methodology.
  White, Sonya and Creaser, Claire. Trends in scholarly journal prices 2000-2006 – an analysis of selected publishers.
  Garratt, Olwyn Gail. ISO 9001: 2000 and change management.
09.45-10.30 PARALLEL SESSION  13 (Paper presentations)
  Lodge, Damian. The challenges in measuring academic library culture on a national scale using a mixed method approach : a case study using Australian academic libraries.
  Sacchetti, Luciana. Attention to the end-user: how to measure quality in a ISO certified Academic Library.
  Wright, Stephanie and White, Lynda. The Assessment Environment in North American Research Libraries.
10.30-11.00 Tea/coffee break
11.00-11.45 PLENARY SESSION:
Poll, Roswitha.
Ten years after: “Measuring Quality” revised.
11.45-12.45 PANEL SESSION:
Town Stephen.
The future of library performance measurement: an international panel discussion.
12.45-13.00 Close of conference
13.00-14.00 Lunch