WORKSHOP FINAL PROGRAM

WORKSHOP:
"Electronic Resources: Quality Evaluation Mechanisms"
Patras, 15-16 May, 2000
University of Patras
Library & Information Service

Workshop Sessions - Minutes of Meeting
Some Selected Reading	Quality Evaluation Web Resources
List of Participants	Photos

Library & Information Service of the University of Patras in cooperation with The British Council of Greece organized the workshop on :

"Electronic resources: Quality evaluation mechanisms"

in Patras, Greece, 15-16 May 2000.

During this two-days event, current trends in Quality Evaluation Mechanisms of Libraries' Electronic Resources were presented and analyzed. Topics discussed during the various plenary sessions and workshops, were on:

- Quality in Digital Libraries
- Performance Indicators for Library Electronic Services
- Collection Mechanisms for Qualitative & Quantitative Statistical Data
- Electronic Services Performance & Usage Evaluation
- Planing & development of Library Electronic Services

About 40 librarians and information experts from Greek Academic & Research Libraries that have developed Electronic Services for their users, attended the workshop aiming to transfer to the Greek Libraries the European experience & knowledge in the fields of Electronic Resources Evaluation Mechanisms, and also to promote current and future Digital Libraries Development efforts in Greece.

SPEAKERS - LECTURERS

- Dr. J. Eric Davies
Dr. Davies is Director of LISU [The Library and Information Statistics Unit] and a member of Faculty in the Department of Information Science at Loughborough University. He has spent over 25 years in academic library management. He also has experience of public libraries and special libraries. His main interests lie in strategic management of academic libraries, the impact of IT and social and legal issues on information management, scientific and technical information, and information skills development.

- Zoe Clarke
Zoe Clarke is a Senior Research Fellow in the Centre for Research in Library and Information Management (CERLIM), in the Department of Information and Communications at Manchester Metropolitan University, UK. She is currently Co-ordinator of the EC funded EQUINOX project which will develop performance indicators and management software for the electronic library environment. Her previous work in the performance measurement field was on the EC EQLIPSE and CAMILE projects. Previous to that she worked in UK academic libraries.

- Juliet Eve
Juliet Eve, joined CERLIM as a Research Fellow in April 1999 and is currently principal researcher on the VITAL project, looking at the value and impact of access to IT based services in public libraries. Her previous research experience includes an investigation of privacy issues in the marketplace (1995); a study of approaches to national information policy making (1996-7); and an evaluation of the impact of Croydon Online, a public library led community website in south London (1997-8).