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On Sunday, November 02, 2008 kiemoko coa said:
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NISO Z39.7 Standing Committee Response (January 7, 2009): Thank you for your comment. The NISO Z39.7 Standing Committee reviewed your comments that have been made. At this time, please provide further information regarding any specific changes that may need to be made to the dictionary, and the Standing Committee will be happy to review those for possible inclusion.

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Awaiting review by the Z39.7 Standing Committee. Under discussion January 2009.

NISO Z39.7-201X, Information Services and Use: Metrics & statistics for libraries and information providers - Data Dictionary

Draft for Trial Use. A proposed revision to the 2004 edition of the standard.

Foreword

(This foreword is not part of this proposed American National Standard for Information Services and Use: Metrics & statistics for libraries and information Providers – Data Dictionary, NISO Z39.7-201X and is intended for information only.)

This standard was first published in 1968 as ANSI Z39.7-1968, reaffirmed in 1974, revised in 1983 (ANSI Z39.7-1983),in 1995 (ANSI/NISO Z39.7-1995) and in 2004 (ANSI/NISO Z39.7-2004).

The 2004 revision took the path of developing an interactive web-based utility for identifying standard definitions, methods and practices relevant to library statistics activities in the United States (US). Like the previous editions of Z39.7 the aim of the standard remains: to assist librarians and researchers [now defined as the information community] by indicating and defining useful quantifiable information to measure the resources and performance of libraries and to provide a body of valid and comparable data on American libraries.

The 2004 revision differed significantly from its predecessors in its approach. The charge to Standards Committee AY charge to revise the standard closely matched recommendations from the NISO Forum on Performance Measures and Statistics for Libraries, held February 15-16, 2001 in Washington, D.C. At this Forum, current standards and best practices for library statistics and performance measures were discussed and identified as critical to the next edition of Z39.7. The 2004 revision absorbs the de facto definitions established through the national program for collecting data about libraries (i.e., the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) survey program), and absorbs relevant US association definitions, methods and practices of data collection. The value of this approach is that it recognizes the guidelines and best practices in the area of library statistics across the community, not only at the national survey level. As in the 1995 edition, most of the data elements included appeared on one or more of the national and association surveys. In addition, relevant definitions from the international standard ISO 2789 developed by the International Organization for Standardization have been incorporated. Many other valuable resources were taken into account in the course of this revision. The appendices to this standard list the publications and projects considered.

Suggestions for improving this standard are welcome. They should be sent to the National Information Standards Organization,  One North Charles Street, Suite 1905, Baltimore, MD 21201-3727, telephone (301) 654-2512.