Managing Your Library and its Quality
The ISO 9001 Way
- 1st Edition - August 22, 2011
- Imprint: Chandos Publishing
- Authors: Núria Balagué, Jarmo Saarti
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN:9 7 8 - 1 - 8 4 3 3 4 - 6 5 4 - 8
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 1 - 7 8 0 6 3 - 2 7 9 - 7
This book, divided into two parts, provides an introduction to the quality management issues and gives a general overview to the use of ISO 9001 in the library environment. The… Read more
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Request a sales quoteThis book, divided into two parts, provides an introduction to the quality management issues and gives a general overview to the use of ISO 9001 in the library environment. The second part presents the main features of ISO 9001:2008 with practical comments and examples on how to implement its clauses in libraries. Whether in the public or in the private sector, libraries can be seen as service organisations: they act in very dynamic environments where users are increasingly demanding new types of services. Thus the adoption of a quality management system helps each library in meeting the needs of the customers. This book covers some key ideas about how to approach the ISO 9001 standard in library terms, or any other information service unit. Managing Your Library and its Quality offers not only a useful approach to quality but it is also an excellent guide on how to manage knowledge within organisations and, a priori, thus should be utilised by the information professional.
- Helps guide the implementation of a quality management system using ISO 9001, a standard widely and successfully used already in all types of organisations around the world
- Translates the ISO 9001 standard to the terms and language used within the libraries
- Presents a systematic approach to the quality management in libraries
Personnel at all managerial and supervisory levels within Library and Information Services, especially in academic libraries; Students of LIS, at both undergraduate and postgraduate level
List of figures and tables
List of abbreviations
Preface
About the authors
Part 1: Quality management issues and the use of ISO 9001 in the library environment
Introduction: quality management in the public sector
Chapter 1: Quality approaches
Chapter 2: The ISO standards
Chapter 3: Origin and evolution of the ISO 9000 standard
Chapter 4: Which libraries use the ISO 9001 and why
Part 2: Building your library’s quality management system according to the ISO 9001 standard
Chapter 5: Introduction
Chapter 6: Quality management systems – requirements
Chapter 7: Normative reference
Chapter 8: Terms and definitions
Chapter 9: Quality management system
Chapter 10: Management responsibility
Chapter 11: Resource management
Chapter 12: Product realisation
Chapter 13: Measurement, analysis and improvement
Chapter 14: The certification process
Chapter 15: Further ideas for improving the quality management system
References
Index
- Edition: 1
- Published: August 22, 2011
- No. of pages (Paperback): 230
- No. of pages (eBook): 230
- Imprint: Chandos Publishing
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN: 9781843346548
- eBook ISBN: 9781780632797
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Núria Balagué
Dr Núria Balagué is Deputy Director of the Library Services at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (Spain) where her responsibilities include the management of the quality system. Balagué has participated in different committees related to university library evaluations in Spain, and is also a lecturer at the Faculty of Librarianship and Documentation Science at Universitat de Barcelona.
Affiliations and expertise
Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, SpainJS
Jarmo Saarti
Dr Jarmo Saarti has worked in several libraries in Finland, and is currently the Library Director in the University of Eastern Finland Library. He has been interested in library management issues and has published several papers on the topic. He has also acted as an ISO 9001 QMS auditor.
Affiliations and expertise
University of Eastern Finland, FinlandRead Managing Your Library and its Quality on ScienceDirect