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'BEST VALUE' SNAPSHOTS HELP LIBRARIES PREPARE FOR INSPECTIONS
New edition of Best Returns published by The Library Association
Help for English library authorities facing the double challenge of Best Value reviews and the new national public library standards is available from a new edition of the Library Association publication Best Returns. The first in a new series of LA strategy and policy reports, Best Returns offers practical guidance to library authorities on how to draw up Best Value reviews and prepare for inspections.
“Best Returns was originally a snapshot of Best Value taken at a fluid time in its development,” says Angela Watson, the report’s author and an Affiliate Best Value inspector for the Audit Commission. “Since then, there have been changes in the library sector, so the report has been thoroughly updated to reflect these developments.” New sections explain what the Best Value inspectors will do and how library authorities can get the most out of their inspections. Case studies show how authorities that are first in line for inspections have tackled the task.
“Angela Watson has done a first rate job with this new edition,” says Guy Daines, the LA’s Principal Policy Adviser. “It will give library authorities a flying start when they have to face the Audit Commission inspectors.”
For further information contact:
Guy Daines, Principal Policy
Adviser, The Library Association.
Tel: 020 7255 0632.
E-mail: guy.daines@la-hq.org.uk
Copies available from Anita
Sawyerr, The Library Association.
Tel: 020 7255 0697.
E-mail: anita.sawyer@la-hq.org.uk.
Notes to Editors
Best Returns: Best Value guidance for library authorities in England (2nd ed, 2001) by Angela Watson, is published by the Library Association. ISBN: 0 9537404 3 9. The text is also available on The Library Association Web site.
The Library Association is the leading professional body for librarians and information managers, with around 24,000 members who work in all sectors, including business and industry, further and higher education, schools, local and central government departments and agencies, the health service, the voluntary sector, national and public libraries. In April 2002, the LA and the Institute of Information Scientists will be absorbed into a new body, CILIP: the Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals.
Friday 9 November 2001