PL 54/09: Global Statistics phase 2

The Global Statistics project was – I gather – an IFLA-based initiative to reestablish library statistics as an area for data collection, publication and analysis within the Unesco system.

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The first phase of the project was completed with a conference last year in Montreal. The IFLA Statistics and Evaluation Section is now applying for (and is likely to get)  funding for a second phase.

Today we appointed a small committee (Colleen Cook/US, Antoni Feliu Coller/Spain, Tord Høivik/Norway – chair) to plan the work required this autumn. I volunteered for the task, since I have a long-standing interest in development statistics.

In this case, long means forty years – I first taught and investigated social statistics abroad while working at UNAM in Mexico City  in 1969/70. It’s nice to be back.

We’ll have a meeting with Stuart Hamilton, IFLA’s strategic advisor, on Tuesday. There will probably be a small workshop in conjunction with the ISO library statistics meeting in Brussels in October. We hope the central persons from phase 1 – who now have leave the standing committee – will be present: Roswitha Poll, Michael Heaney and Pierre Mounier.

Resources

• Statistics and Evaluation Section – Strategic Plan 2008-2009

Persons

C. Colleen Cook
Dean
Texas A & M University Libraries
5000 Tamu
COLLEGE STATION, TX 77843
United States
Tel. +(1)(979)8458111
Fax +(1)(979)8456238
E-mail: ccook(@)tamu.edu

Antoni Feliu Oller
Head of Programming, Quality and Innovation
Diputació de Barcelona, Gerència de Serveis de Biblioteques
Comte D’Urgell, 187
08036 BARCELONA
Spain
Tel.+(34)(93)4049376
Fax+(34)(93)4022488
Email: feliuoa(@)diba.cat

Tord Høivik
Associate Professor
Oslo University College
Box 4, St. Olavs plass
0130 OSLO
Norway
Tel. +(47)(22)452600
Fax + (47)(22)452605
Email: tordhoivik(@)gmail.com
Cell phone: +(47)97543721

Michael Heaney
Executive Secretary
Oxford University Library Services
Clarendon Building, Bodleian Library
OXFORD OX1 3BG
United Kingdom
Tel. +(44)(1865)277236
E-mail: michael.heaney(@)ouls.ox.ac.uk

Pierre Meunier
Advisor, Evaluation and standardization
Planning and Development Department, Bibliothèque de Montréal
801 Brennan, 5th floor
MONTREAL, Quebec H3C 0G4
Canada
Tel. +(1)(514)8725593
Fax +(1)(514)8720530
Email: pmeunier(@)ville.montreal.qc.ca

Roswitha Poll
Former chief librarian
University and Regional Library Münster
Krummer Timpen 3-5
48143 MÜNSTER
Germany
Tel. +(49)(251)8324060
Fax +(49)(251)8328398
Email: pollr(@)uni-muenster.de

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