Citation
Gannon-Leary, P. (2002), "5th Northumbria International Conference on Performance Measurement in Libraries and Information Services", Performance Measurement and Metrics, Vol. 3 No. 3. https://doi.org/10.1108/pmm.2002.27903cab.001
Publisher
:Emerald Group Publishing Limited
Copyright © 2002, MCB UP Limited
5th Northumbria International Conference on Performance Measurement in Libraries and Information Services
5th Northumbria International Conference on Performance Measurement in Libraries and Information Services
"Library measures to fill the void: assessing outcomes"Monday 28 July - Thursday 31 July 2003, Collingwood College, Durham, UK
Call for papers
Following four highly successful conferences in 1995, 1997, 1999, and 2001, the Information Management Research Institute, School of Information Studies[1], Northumbria University, UK, together with the Association of Research Libraries, the Oakland Library Consortium, NCLIS, the University of Arizona Library, Arizona State University Library, and Texas A&M University Sterling C. Evans Library, is pleased to announce its fifth conference in 2003.
The electronic world of information provides challenges for librarians and information workers everywhere. The conference will address these issues in addition to the value and impact of our traditional services and evaluating them effectively.
This conference is for library and information managers in all sectors of library and information services, as well as research and teaching staff. The language of the conference is English.
Conference topics
Conference presentations are sought in, but not limited to, the following areas of content:
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The digital library.
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Measuring electronic services.
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The Internet as information source.
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Quantitative and qualitative analysis.
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Research project.
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Benchmarking.
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Balanced scorecard.
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Effectiveness of performance Measurement.
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The human dimension.
Presentation formats
Proposals are invited for presentations in a variety of formats which may include, but are not limited to:
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Seminar presentations.
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"Meet the experts" moderated question and answer.
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Panel discussion.
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Workshop poster session.
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Demonstration – IT/AV, etc.
Presentation sessions should be no more than 30 minutes in length, including time at the end for the audience to ask questions. Poster session presentations should be ten minutes in duration. An outline of the presentation together with the appropriate handouts and/or bibliographies should be made available (in electronic format) in advance of the conference for inclusion in the Conference Notebook.
The registration guidelines and evaluation procedure are available on the journal Web site at www.emeraldinsight.com/pmm.htm
Further information is available from Sandra Parker (sandra.parker@northumbria.ac.uk).
Note1. From 1 September 2002, School of Informatics
Pat Gannon-Leary