June 21, 2013, Melbourne, Australia – The KPI Institute, the global authority on Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) research and education announces the launch of a new report in its 2011-2012 edition of its popular Top 25 series of reports. The series is based on research conducted through www.smartKPIs.com, which contains over 20,000 Key Performance Indicator examples, making it the world’s largest source of thoroughly documented KPIs.

Libraries and archives include all types of archives (academic, church, national etc.) and libraries (national library, local public library, school library). KPIs are related to the quality in serving and guiding customers, managing and preserving the archives and books, as well as the efficiency in organizing and structuring them.

The Top 25 Libraries and Archives KPIs of 2011-2012 report compiles the most popular 25 KPIs used by the Libraries and Archives function. The methodology used to conduct the research consisted of ranking the KPI examples published in the Libraries and Archives industry of smartKPIs.com, based on their number of views in 2011. Out of the more than 350 Libraries and Archives KPIs available on smartKPIs.com, the 25 most viewed by the members and visitors of smartKPIs.com were selected and analysed in detail in this report.

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