What are the benefits of participating in LibQUAL+® as part of a consortium?
Consortium participation is viewed as a mutually beneficial arrangement. The consortium members obtain valuable service quality information and comparisons across the membership and LibQUAL+® benefits from the large number of participants. Consortium participation encourages the continuing commitment to library service quality by consortium members. Consortia receive a number of benefits such as: • • Analysis of group data and production of a group results notebook, if your consortium has five or more members participating; • • The ability to add five new optional questions to the survey as unified group; the purpose of these questions are to identify certain areas of your libraries that the 22 core items may not address (the data from those questions will be included in the group notebook); and • • The opportunity for a locally hosted, customized results meeting. For more information about participating as a consortium, send an e-mail to libqual@arl.org. When does registration open fo
