[Asis-standards] ISO DIS 11620 Re: 2 more ISO vote

[Baden Hughes]

Mark

Re: 2) ISO/DIS 11620, Information and documentation — Library performance
indicators

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> This will be the third edition of the standard that specifies the
> requirements of performance indicators for libraries and establishes a set
> of indicators to be used by libraries of all types.
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> Comments needed by July 22
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My comments

- We should vote to approve it

- The revision includes many updates from ISO/DIS 2789:2012 which better
aligns these two standards, and ISO TR 28118:2008 which has been the
defacto standard particularly for national libraries for the last 5 years
or so. In short - this update is necessary simply to ensure consistency,
apart from anything else.

- This is an incremental improvement over the earlier edition because the
guidance on implementation is much more detailed/relevant than previous.In
earlier editions, an adopter was largely left to their own devices as to
how to implement/source/calculate indicators, this next edition should
assist in greater consistency of implementation, as opposed to only a
consistency of metrics.

Baden
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