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The University of Wales, Aberystwyth, Department of
Information and Library Studies and Information
Automation Limited's Centre for Information Quality
Management win JISC funding
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The Department of Information and Library Studies (DILS)
of The University of Wales, Aberystwyth, and
Information Automation Limited's Centre for Information
Quality Management (CIQM) are pleased to announce the
award by JISC of funding under its call Monitoring and
Evaluating User Behaviour in Information Seeking and Use
of Information Technology and Information Services in UK
HE (JISC Circular 1/99).
The Department of Information and Library Studies and
the Centre for Information Quality Management are
surveying end users of Electronic Information Services
and Electronic Information Services provision within
Higher Education Institutions (HEIs). The team from
Aberystwyth suggested to JISC that there was an absolute
logic in running two of the four work strands proposed
in the original Circular together, and JISC
have accepted this approach.
The JUSTEIS (JISC Usage Surveys: Trends in Electronic
Information Services) project began in September 1999
and will use critical success factors and critical
incident technique to assess user behaviour, and a Web
survey of all HEIs backed up by interviews to determine
Electronic Information Services provision. The survey of
Electronic Information Service users will cover a range
of disciplines and types of HE institution, and the
sampling frame will be designed with the aim of
monitoring trends in Electronic Information Services
use. Electronic Information Services can be interpreted
in different ways by different groups of people. One of
the first tasks is to develop a taxonomy covering the
whole spectrum of Electronic Information Services
provision which will be used in both surveys.
The award is for £105,212 and the work will run over two
academic years. The results from the first cycle should
be available in Spring 2000. Other work proposed by the
JISC Circular is being undertaken by a team at the
University of Northumbria in Newcastle.
More information on JUSTEIS can be found on the project
Web pages at:
<http://www.i-a-l.co.uk/JUSTEIS/JISCTop.htm>
Contact can be made with the team via the form on this
Web site or through
Ray Lonsdale - [log in to unmask] - (+44) 1970 622173
<LI>David Stoker - [log in to unmask] - (+44) 1970 622178
<LI>Chris Armstrong - [log in to unmask] - (+44) 1974
251302
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Chris Armstrong
Centre for Information Quality Management (CIQM)
(+44) 1974 251302
[log in to unmask]
<http://www.i-a-l.co.uk>
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