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![]() | A clear focus on the library's service | |
| mission |
![]() | Customer-focused priorities and policies |
![]() | Effective staffing resource allocation. |
![]() | Customer service training for the whole | |
| library staff |
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| important details that are slipping through the cracks. |
| Nothing is more important to the success of any library than meeting the needs of the library's customers. Good customer service doesn't just happen. |
| For more information or to purchase Creating the Customer-Driven Library: Building on the Bookstore Model |
| Focusing on the Bottom Line This excerpt from The Customer Driven Library examines why the multiple goals of libraries make it difficult for them to measure their success and advocates defining one easily measurable success indicator to serve as a bottom line. |