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Measuring impact and outcome of libraries

Roswitha Poll (Roswitha Poll is Director of Libraries and State Librarian at University and Regional Library Mu¨nster, Mu¨nster, Germany.)

Performance Measurement and Metrics

ISSN: 1467-8047

Publication date: 1 April 2003

Abstract

The paper examines ways of assessing an economic value of library services, the social value imputed by users and non‐users of libraries, and the outcome on information literacy, information retrieval, and academic and professional success.

Keywords

  • University libraries
  • Performance measurement
  • Library management
  • Information technology
  • Information retrieval
  • Literature

Citation

Poll, R. (2003), "Measuring impact and outcome of libraries", Performance Measurement and Metrics, Vol. 4 No. 1, pp. 5-12. https://doi.org/10.1108/14678040310471202

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MCB UP Ltd

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