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- Libraries have always been notoriously weak in their use
of management information. Such statistics as are produced and
used are widely recognised to be shallow and not very meaningful
as measures of performance, yet more adequate performance measures
have been elusive. With the appearance of computerised library
systems, it was widely assumed that the right management information
would become available as a simple by-product of the systems.
The assumption was largely wrong.
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- A group of experts discuss here a number of fundamental questions,
such as: why is management information important in educational
and public sector management?; what are Management Information
Systems?; what needs do they meet, and how do they differ in
academic, public, and industrial libraries?; what systems are
under development or already in use?; what research and development
is needed?; what have the automated library system suppliers
done to make management information available?; what is the consumer's
view?
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- ISBN 0 947568 18 2
- 1987
- £18.00/US$34.00
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- 'firmly anchored to the rock of practical experience and
sound common sense.... it is for that quality as much as for
the professionalism of the contributors that this volume is worth
reading.'
- Journal of Documentation
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- 'this excellent collection of papers.... provides a useful
overview of the whole topic of management information in libraries
and information services.'
- Library Review
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