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Report Meeting. Colleen Cook Bruce Thompson Martha Kyrillidou July 28, 2003 Durham United Kingdom. Assessment.
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Report Meeting Colleen Cook Bruce Thompson Martha Kyrillidou July 28, 2003 Durham United Kingdom
Assessment “The difficulty lies in trying to find a single model or set of simple indicators that can be used by different institutions, and that will compare something across large groups that is by definition only locally applicable—i.e., how well a library meets the needs of its institution. Librarians have either made do with oversimplified national data or have undertaken customized local evaluations of effectiveness, but there has not been devised an effective way to link the two.” Sarah Pritchard, Library Trends, 1996
Theory of Service Quality:SERVQUAL • A. Parasuraman • L. Berry • V. Zeithaml 1985
Relationships: Perceptions, Service Quality and Satisfaction ….only customers judge quality; all other judgments are essentially irrelevant” Zeithaml, Parasuraman, Berry. (1999). Delivering quality service. NY: The Free Press.
Project Resources • LibQUAL+TM is an ARL/Texas A&M University joint effort. The project is supported in part by a 3-year grant from the U.S. Department of Education’s Fund for the Improvement of Post-Secondary Education (FIPSE) and a 3-year grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF)
4 Languages American English British English French “Dutch English” 7 Consortia Each has 5 local questions added to the survey 7 Types of Institutions Academic Health Sciences Academic Law Academic Military College or University Community College Public State Rapid Growth in Other Areas
LibQUAL+™ 2003 by the Numbers InstitutionsSurveys Total 308 128,958 American English 285 115,852 Colleges and Universities 221 98,206 Community Colleges 30 7,354 Academic Health Sciences 22 7,388 Military Institutions 6 1,697 Public and State Institutions 5 741 Academic Law Institutions 1 466 British English 20 11,919 Canadian French 2 416 Dutch English 1 771 ARL 66 31,479
LibQUAL+ Related Documents • LibQUAL+Web Site http://www.arl.org/libqual/ • LibQUAL+Bibliography • http://www.coe.tamu.edu/~bthompson/servqbib • Survey Participants Procedures Manual • http://www.arl.org/libqual/procedure/lqmanual2.pdf
2003 Results on the Web • Notebooks from the 2003 iteration of the LibQUAL+(TM) survey • http://www.libqual.org/Manage/Results/Results_2003/index.cfm • 2003 Interactive Statistics • http://www.libqual.org/Manage/Results/Interactive/index.cfm