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Author(s) -
Powell Nellie Lee
Publication year - 1984
Publication title -
image: the journal of nursing scholarship
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.009
H-Index - 80
eISSN - 1547-5069
pISSN - 0743-5150
DOI - 10.1111/j.1547-5069.1984.tb01372.x
Subject(s) - citation , library science , sociology , world wide web , computer science
Recent demands for evidence of quality and the impact of library services on teaching and research require libraries to demonstrate accountability and responsiveness to a divergent range of user needs. In 2004 the Committee for Higher Education Librarians in South Africa (CHELSA) recognised a need for an agreed set of criteria, standards and models for quality assurance and the critical success factors for self assessment in university libraries. CHELSA therefore established its own Quality Assurance Subcommittee to provide libraries with clear and practical direction in preparing for mandated national HE quality audits and to operationalise an ongoing process of library performance evaluation according to agreed measures. The author, a member of this Subcommittee, will chart the progress towards building consensus and establishing an integrated system and process of quality assurance at South African university libraries on the basis of international standards.