Evaluation of library services: a literature review

Abstract

This paper reviews the literature related to evaluation of Information services. The purpose of this study is to identify the evaluation criteria, evaluation perspectives and instruments of evaluation researches in order to apply to the local context to assure the service quality of libraries. Under this library evaluation points and evaluation perspectives were reviewed. Further to these evaluation criteria, methodology and research instrument used in evaluation research were studied. Several related research carried out by using different evaluation criteria have been reviewed.