Can Business Strategic Partnership Models be mapped onto an e-Government Strategic Partnership?
7: How can libraries change without an unacceptable cost to core services to current users? 8: How important is the library building? 9: Do staff have the right skills? (I can let anybody who is interested in the above have a copy of the DCMS position paper, which gives some further details) 10 The tyranny of numbers. In a recent book David Boyle argues that we now have government by target. We are in a world in which everything is designed to be measured He suggests that this obsession with numbers is at the expense of what is non measurable (for example intuition, creativity, imagination and happiness). The idea is to apply his ideas to the evaluation of library services by perhaps building on the social audit work that has been developed in the Department. 11 The impact of Cabinets on public library services: Local government and local politics are changing. For example the library committee is a thing of the past in all but a few authorities. Many local authorities have adopted a c
