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October 3, 2006
Impact Measures
When the hearings of the Select committee were in progress nearly two years ago, the MP's found a bewildering and ever changing catalogue of "standards" and "performance indicators" and initiatives that had been launched and then ditched within only a few years.
"Never mind" they were told with confident assertion by those in charge, "there is to be a new set of measures that will solve all that. They will be called "impact measures" and they will clearly indicate the "impact" public libraries have on people. The MP's uttered the immortal observation " we cannot understand what this means but we do hope it works better than what has gone before.
The famous "impact measures" have never been heard of since!
Posted by Perkins at October 3, 2006 7:39 PM
Comments
Impact measurement is surely a typical example of this Government's attempt to give every department (including the Home Office) woolly all embracing social aims. It avoids having to face the fact that such departments are making a miserable shambles of the down to earth job they should be doing.
Posted by: Rosemary Conway at October 4, 2006 7:45 PM
Rosemary
How good to hear from you. Your council is certainly one of the most evasive. I wonder what happened to the famous Review of the Library Service that was promised more than a year ago. Still, we know that the Leader of the council knows how to write a letter that says "Thank you for your views" - and nothing else!
Tim
Posted by: Tim at October 5, 2006 8:11 AM