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Volume 24, Issue 3
1 May 2003
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Research Article| May 01 2003

Management musings 11: measurement vs. performance Available to Purchase

Maurice B. Line
Maurice B. Line
Maurice B. Line, Harrogate, UK.
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Publisher: Emerald Publishing
Online ISSN: 1758-7921
Print ISSN: 0143-5124
© MCB UP Limited
2003
Library Management (2003) 24 (3): 164–165.
https://doi.org/10.1108/01435120310464871

Discusses performance measurement in libraries and the need to consider what it represents. Attention is drawn to the danger of over‐measurement.

Keywords:
Libraries, Management, Performance measurement, Statistics
© MCB UP Limited
2003
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