PSQG Performance Measures
Background: Due to difficulties in identifying what access and usage outcomes we need to measure (and complications in translating them into meaningful indicators applicable across all sectors), the working party has decided to step back and look first at measures that could applied across the whole spectrum of archives services. This links directly with the need for common measures highlighted in the LUCAS snapshot diagnostics report and in responses to PSQG's 2003 survey. It will also contribute towards the development of archival measures for Resource's statistical digest - for which reliable figures across the domain are urgently needed.
Format: These measures are set out in more detail than is required for the Audit Commission (AC) template, but some of the information will be transferable to the ACPI Library format when the measures are developed into indicators.
These Indicators were first piloted in August 2003. Since then, the PSQG have attracted support for the Indicators across the archives sector.
Following further work, a definite report was published early in 2007. Download the report here.
