Managing Your Library and its Quality: The ISO 9001 Way
By Núria Balagué and Jarmo Saarti
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- 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
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.
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Managing Your Library and its Quality - Núria Balagué
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Part 1
Quality management issues and the use of ISO 9001 in the library environment
Introduction: quality management in the public sector
Abstract: In Part 1, Chapters 1-4 of this book, the quality management approaches in the public sector are discussed. The reader is also given a short history about the evolution of the ISO standards, quality management and quality management in libraries.
Key words: quality management; Libraries; Standards; ISO 9001
Quality management ideology began to have an impact on the public sector during the 1990s (see Poll and Boekhorst, 1996, which is a good summary of the development in academic libraries). Some of its principles, such as changes in the management of and evaluating and setting goals for results, were adapted from the private sector. A clear example of this was the so-called ‘new public management’ movement, which started using private sector instruments within the public sector:
…instruments of such policy interventions are institutional rules and organizational routines affecting expenditure planning and financial management, civil service and labour relations, procurement, organization and methods, and audit and evaluation. (Barzelay, 2001: 156)
These instruments can also be found in the descriptions of quality management in the Finnish public sector published by the Ministry of Finance (Sorri-Teir et al., 1998: 8). They list the pressures for the public sector actors as:
economic situation and continuing demands for savings;
results management: the need for development and goals set by the ministries;
ministries have demanded quality improvement from civil service departments;
budgeting has changed from sub-item specified to framework budgets;
clients require quality services and are eager to provide feedback;
civil service departments have become more independent and thus they have become more able to improve quality;
there has been a strong emphasis on TQM (total quality management) during the 1990s.
In addition to the developments triggered by the policymakers, there has also been a major change in how scientific information is disseminated that has affected university libraries and changed their ways of ‘doing business’. The traditional, reactive way of building and owning collections has, at least partly, changed to a more reactive way of intermediating the printed and electronic resources as part of the university’s learning and knowledge-creating processes (see, e.g., Huotari and Iivonen, 2005). On the other hand, libraries can be seen to be moving to become the knowledge management centres of their parent organisation (Parker et al.,