Attendance August 15. Current Projects Performance Measures Manual. The Statistics Section has taken responsibility for this translation. Three people had worked on and been paid for the preliminary translation, but more work needs to be done. Marie-Dominique Heusse requested and received funding for additional translation work from the University and Research Libraries Section.
Performance measures continue to be a hot topic.
German and Spanish translations of the IFLA manual have now been released and two French works have been published on the topic. The French version is ready for publication. An international group of 11 experts is charged with surveying the current implementation of ISO 2789, preparing recommendations for additions covering electronic resources, and revising the standard. The group met in Athens in May 1998 and will meet in Paris in 1998. Statistics Section Brochure.