caa a22 4500 378908359 CHVBK 20180305123535.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161128e200409 xx s 000 0 eng 10.1515/LIBR.2004.179 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)gruyter-10.1515/LIBR.2004.179 Evaluation of Public Libraries: The 2001 IFLA Standards and the 2003 Standards for Provincial Libraries in China [Elektronische Daten] [Beverly P. Lynch, Wenxiang Yang] The International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA), guided by the interests of UNESCO in assisting libraries to improve their services, continues to develop statements on standards for public libraries. The most recent statement was adopted in 2001. IFLA, while working tirelessly at the international level to develop standards, also recognizes the importance of national, regional and local standards. The diffusion world wide of knowledge and information about library standards development has been useful in the preparation of standards at the regional and national levels. This paper summarizes and compares the components of the current IFLA standards for public libraries, adopted in 2001, and the new standards for provincial public libraries in China, adopted in 2003. The comparison attests to the similarities in the evaluation of library services around the world. The continuing work on library standards at the international level is very important as it identifies the critical variables needed in evaluation of library services. While setting the general direction for such standards work, it also enables the important issue of values, and the consideration of those values in the evaluation of library services, to be made at the local, regional, and national levels. © 2004 by K. G. Saur Verlag GmbH, Federal Republic of Germany Lynch Beverly P. Graduate School of Education & Information Studies, University of California, Los Angeles aut Yang Wenxiang College of Management, Hebei University, Peking aut Libri Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co. KG 54/3(2004-09), 179-189 0024-2667 54:3<179 2004 54 LIBR https://doi.org/10.1515/LIBR.2004.179 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1515/LIBR.2004.179 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Lynch Beverly P. Graduate School of Education & Information Studies, University of California, Los Angeles aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Yang Wenxiang College of Management, Hebei University, Peking aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Libri Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co. KG 54/3(2004-09), 179-189 0024-2667 54:3<179 2004 54 LIBR CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-gruyter