Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/9026489b/managing_your_libr) has announced the addition of Woodhead Publishing Ltd's book "Managing Your Library and its Quality: The ISO 9001 way" to their offering.
This book, divided into two parts, provides an introduction to the quality management issues and gives a general overview to the use on 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 will cover some key ideas about how to approach the ISO 9001 standard in library terms, or any other information service unit. ISO 9001 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.
Readership: 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, will also benefit from reading this text.
Key features:
- 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
- helps to enhance the management and core activities of libraries
- written by two expert practitioners with extensive experience in implementing the ISO 9001 standard in libraries
For more information visit http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/9026489b/managing_your_libr
Source: Woodhead Publishing Ltd