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    LibQUAL+ in the UK and Ireland: three years' findings and experience
    (2011-04-21) Lock, Selena A.; Town, J. Stephen
    Presents an overview of the SCONUL LibQUAL+ participation, reports some of the overall results of the 2003-2005 SCONUL cohorts, and describes some feedback from participants and the lessons learnt from the process. The overall results for SCONUL in 2005 show that performance is a little above the minimum in Affect of Service and some problems of performance below the minimum in Information Control and Library as Place. There is a marked difference between the results for 2003 and the subsequent years, and one without obvious immediate explanation. Library as Place is the dimension which suggests more research is needed to understand the variation across the three years, and the particularly good results in the 2003 cohort. Consistently across all years the ability of libraries to deliver printed materials that staff and students require for their work, and the print or electronic periodical collection provision has scored below users' minimum expectations in the UK. For all major dimensions there was a decrease in perceptions in 2004. Library as Place is the only dimension to see a steady increase in users' expectations over the three years, Information Control expectations have remained fairly stable and Affect of Service has seen a decline in users' expectations. (Quotes from original text)
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    Update on LibQUAL+ 2004: the international library satisfaction survey instrument
    (2011-04-21) Lock, Selena A.
    Following from the success of the 2003 LibQUAL+ UK Pilot, SCONUL's Advisory Committee on Performance Improvement (ACPI) are coordinating a consortium of SCONUL libraries in LibQUAL+ 2004. LibQUAL+ is a World Wide Web based library users survey, measuring their minimum, perceived, and desired levels of service quality. It assesses three core dimensions of library service: information control (questions on, for example, availability of resources and the ability to access them); affect of service (questions concerning the effectiveness of library staff); and library as place (questions on the physical environment). Following calls for participation circulated by email in September 2003, a total of 17 institutions (university libraries) registered to run the LibQUAL+ survey in 2004 and they are listed. (Quotes from original text)