Electronic Library Performance Indicators: the EQUINOX project

Performance indicators at TUM library

Strategic management relies on more than personal experience and intuition. Performance indicators define the essential factors an institution needs for benchmarking and for monitoring its output and efficiency. They provide the foundation for management decisions concerning the development of an organization and its services. In Germany, the German Library Statistics (Deutsche Bibliotheksstati...

Performance Indicators for Successful Construction Project Performance

The construction industry is generally considered to have under performed compared to other industries. Not only that, the UK construction industry has been criticised for not performing at the same level as that of other developed countries. In relation to this, the UK working groups on Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) have identified ten parameters for benchmarking projects, in order to achi...

Courseware in academic library user education: a literature review from the GAELS Joint Electronic Library project

Courseware in academic library user education: a literature review from the GAELS Joint Electronic Library project

The use of courseware for information skills teaching in academic libraries has been growing for a number of years. In order to create effective courseware packages to support joint electronic library activity at Glasgow and Strathclyde Universities, the GAELS project conducted a literature review of the subject. This review discovered a range of factors common to successful library courseware ...

Uranus’ aurorae past equinox

The aurorae of Uranus were recently detected in the far 2 ultraviolet with the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) pro3 viding a new, so far unique, means to remotely study the 4 asymmetric Uranian magnetosphere from Earth. We ana5 lyze here two new HST Uranus campaigns executed in Sept. 6 2012 and Nov. 2014 with different temporal coverage and 7 under variable solar wind conditions numerically predic...