図書館運営と図書館サービスの評価について(松永俊男教授退任記念号)

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Evaluations are becoming common all over the world, including Japan, a consequence brought about by public fund shortages. Public libraries are no exception. In this country, the Fundamental Law of Education was revised in 2006, and almost all educational acts have been rewritten one after another. Three social educational acts, including the Public Library Law, were amended in June 2008. The library evaluation system was newly introduced at that time. The library evaluation system requires feasible images of a particular public library based on its community's own circumstances and every inhabitant's informational, recreational, educational, and research needs. Investing large amounts of money, time, and people into the work of evaluation is absurd, because almost all the results are already known. Reasonable personnel management and responsibility-delegation are very important in the public library workplace. Library Performance Indicators (JISX0812:2008), which is translation of ISO11620 1998, can be helpfully used in the work of library evaluation, but it is lacking in indicators of library instruction and library marketing. When one evaluates one's own library, one has to make and select suitable indicators.
2009-03-10