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Quality assurance at St Francis Xavier Sixth Form College Library
Get PDFThis article outlines the work undertaken between September 1992 and May 1993 when I carried out the research to set up a full Quality Assurance programme to be implemented within
St Francis Xavier College (SFX) Library. This article describes
the background to the work, an analysis of the key issues of quality assurance, and a description of our resultant methodology. In conclusion the article makes recommendations on how to develop a QA programme in a sixth form library environment
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No full textEllis, Deebie and Norton, Bob. Implementing BS 5750/ISO 9000 in libraries.
Jackson, Peter and Ashton, David. Implementing quality through BS 5750 (ISO 9000)
Brown, Tony. Understanding BS 5750 and other quality systems.
Baird, Nicola. Setting up and running a school library
Pickering, Helen and Sumsion, John. A survey of library services to schools and children in the UK 1992-93.
Lancaster, F W. If you want to evaluate your library...
Abbott, Christine. Performance measurement in library and information service
Hypertext and its implications for library services.
Get PDFThe dissertation\u27s main intention was to give librarians a clear introduction to the hypertext concept. Rarely do methods of information retrieval arise that have a potential for revolutionizing the way in which people work with information in as many ways as hypertext has
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No full textJack, Meadows. Innovation in information: twenty years of the British Library Research and Development Department
Kinnell, Margaret and MacDougall, Jennifer. Meeting the marketing challenge: strategies for
public libraries and leisure services
Baverstock, Alison. Are books different? Marketing in the book trade
Smith, John W T (Editor). Internet world & document delivery world internationa
HIDER, Philip. Information Resource Description: Creating and Managing Metadata. London: Facet, 2012.
Get PDFReLIANT: Reader\u27s guide to the Literature on Interventions Addressing the Need of education and Training
Get PDFLibrarians need to be able to read critically published
accounts of educational and training interventions
(ETl) and to apply the results to their own practice.
One mechanism for assisting library practitioners in
doing this is the critical appraisal checklist. This article
describes the process of developing such a checklist -
involving a literature review of existing frameworks
and experience in appraising such studies for a
systematic review of information literacy skills training.
The ReLIANT instrument is offered as a first attempt
to equip library practitioners with a tool for use when
appraising published reports of educational and training
interventions
The employment of online questionnaires within user studies research in school libraries.
Get PDFThis paper considers the effectiveness of a research
method based on online questionnaires and employed
in a recent study of attitudes to books and school
libraries among pupils in an English high school. The
questionnaire was constructed in Microsoft SharePoint.
ln an e-mail, the youngsters were asked to complete
the questionnaire and were taken to it via a hyperlink.
The research strategy ensured that, in theory at least, a
wide range of pupils was reached. lt exploited their
familiarity with electronic surveys and eliminated the
problem of illegible handwriting often associated with
paper questionnaires. Nevertheless, the response rate
was poor and the quality of the data questionable
despite several provisions for ensuring trustworthiness.
The SharePoint system employed supported
quantitative data analysis to a much greater extent
than it did qualitative. The paper concludes by
identifying other forms of electronic questionnaire that
may be employed in schools that lack SharePoint
software
