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RISS members,

Mary Graham recently sent a message calling for volunteers to serve on the
Statistics Task Force.  Her description of the proposed task force follows
below.  If you are interested in serving as the RISS representative, please
contact me at <a href="/scripts/wa.exe?LOGON=A3%3Dind9707%26L%3DARLIS-L%26E%3D7BIT%26P%3D352684%26B%3D--%26T%3Dtext%252FplainTEXT%252FPLAIN%3B%2520charset%3DUS-ASCII%26pending%3D" target="_parent" >[log in to unmask]</a>  I'll need to notify Mary by July
29.

Thanks,
Kaia

Kaia Stavig Esau
RISS Moderator, 1997-98

>
>As a reminder the Statistics Task Force is part of the Strategic Plan
>action items:
>
>#43    Appoint and charge task force, with representation from all
>Divisions and Sections, to create guidelines for, and instruction in,
>compiling, analyzing, and reporting statistical data; identify and report
>on models from other organizations; provide recommendations on effective
>use of statistical data for intra-institutional reporting and planning and
>for inter-institutional evaluation and rating.
>
>#44    Create standard suite of statistics useful for documentation,
>budgeting, program and space planning, ranking/rating, accreditation,
>staffing, fund raising.
>
>#45    Gather and distrubute statistical compilations, and
>accreditation-required narrative texts, from indivudual libraries to others
>of like kind.
>
>

>
>Mary Graham
>Head, Library Division
>Arizona State Museum
>University of Arizona
>Tucson,  AZ  85721-0026
>