The use of indicators for information resources management

Abstract

It approaches measurement aspects, focusing the measurement instruments use, particularly indicators, to information resources evaluation. It conceptualizes performance indicators, explaining how important it is to use it on managing these resources, focused on the client/user. It comments its authority for quality management and decision taking. It presents documents deal with performance indicators concerning traditional and digital libraries, among which International Standards ISO 11620, ISO 20983, the EQUINOX Project, plus a manual published by UNESCO, as basic and qualified sources for the formation and selection of indicators and methodologies. It concludes, highlighting the importance of the systematic use of indicators for evaluation, decision taking and information resources management. It recommends the promotion of actions aiming to motivate research and governmental agencies to adopt them, and also the inclusion of studies on the subject in graduate courses, in the field of Information Science, in the process of developing competence in information.