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Library consultant Joe Matthews is the principal investigator for a two-year IMLS-funded National Leadership Grant project to adapt the balanced scorecard evaluation methodology for use by libraries. I am serving on the advisory committee for this project and just attended the first meeting during the recent ALA Midwinter Meetings in Boston. I’d be very interested in hearing any comments from library folks who are using this approach. If you want to comment offline from this blog, you can reach me at the e-mail address below.
For more information on the IMLS project, see its homepage at: http://www.ci.carlsbad.ca.us/imls/index.html. (Note: This is not a ‘turnkey’ proposition. There’s no one scorecard. It’s an approach that needs to be customized to each library using it. But, there are directions and tools for producing one.)

–Keith
lance_k@cde.state.co.us

At the Boston Midwinter Meetings of the American Library Association this past week, SIRSI announced a new public library data project called the Normative Data Project for Libraries. This new web-based product/service combines SIRSI catalog and circulation data, public library statistics from the National Center for Education Statistics (see http://nces.ed.gov/surveys/libraries/Public.asp), and improved access tools for the Public Library Geographic Database (see http://www.geolib.org/PLGDB.cfm) from GeoLib, the GIS-based library research center at Florida State University (see http://www.geolib.org).
If you are purchasing and using NDP, please share your comments about it. If you don’t wish to share your comments in this blog, send them to me at lance_k@cde.state.co.us. Comments, public or private, from any Colorado SIRSI customers are especially invited.

Press release: http://www.sirsi.com/Newsevents/Releases/20050117ndp.html
Brochure: http://www.sirsi.com/Pdfs/Newsevents/normative_data_project.pdf
Website: http://www.librarynormativedata.info

–Keith
lance_k@cde.state.co.us