Abstract
This paper discusses the role of sustainability metrics in quality management in Library and Information Services (LIS), contributing to the ongoing debate by developing an integrated framework that offers an opportunity to measure sustainability value, influence and meaning of information services, and providing an illustrative example of LIS professionals and students discussion in Portugal. LIS assessment experience can strongly contribute to the debate around culture and development and, therefore, global sustainability. But in order to have its expertise externally recognize, the library and information community needs to integrate the sustainability perspective into the LIS performance evaluation research and practice, using new tools and outlining a meta-management assessment strategy.
Keywords
Sustainability, quality management, meta-management, cultural evaluation, performance evaluation, Library and Information Services
Session Number
Second Plenary Session
Date of this Version
June 2014
Recommended Citation
Paula Ochôa and Leonor Gaspar Pinto,
"Sustainability Metrics in Library and Information Services: A Quality Management Framework."
Proceedings of the IATUL Conferences.
Paper 5.
https://docs.lib.purdue.edu/iatul/2014/plenaries/5
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Sustainability Metrics in Library and Information Services: A Quality Management Framework
This paper discusses the role of sustainability metrics in quality management in Library and Information Services (LIS), contributing to the ongoing debate by developing an integrated framework that offers an opportunity to measure sustainability value, influence and meaning of information services, and providing an illustrative example of LIS professionals and students discussion in Portugal. LIS assessment experience can strongly contribute to the debate around culture and development and, therefore, global sustainability. But in order to have its expertise externally recognize, the library and information community needs to integrate the sustainability perspective into the LIS performance evaluation research and practice, using new tools and outlining a meta-management assessment strategy.