Library and Information Research Group

Refereed Article

Authors

All the authors are members of an informal team "The Task Group for Standardization". They are Chief Librarians or Deputy Librarians and represent various types of the Polish research libraries. Miroslaw Gorny is a Head of Information Systems Division at the Institute of Linguistics of the Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan.
Email: lidka@atr.bydgoszcz.pl or mgorny@main.amu.edu.pl 

Abstract

The article discusses proposed standards for Polish research libraries evaluation. At the beginning, the authors present the situation of research libraries in Poland. They write about the effects of the social-political transformation in the 90s, present selected statistical data, and describe the progress in computerisation. The following part of the article relates to the currently applied in Poland standards of library evaluation. Discussed are e.g. the presently applied tools for data collection and analysis. The last part includes proposed methods for the preparation of standards and assessments for Polish research libraries.