The Fowlerville District Library Receives Library of Michigan Certification for Meeting 'Essential Level' of Quality Services!
Tuesday, August 30, 2005
The Library of Michigan today awarded the Fowlerville District Library a certificate of completion for meeting the Essential Level requirements of the Quality Services Audit Checklist (QSAC). To earn certification, the Fowlerville District Library demonstrated its competence in seven categories of achievement including human resources; governance/administration; services; collection development; technology; facilities and equipment; and public relations/marketing.
QSAC has defined "essential services" -- the basics of all library service -- as relatively low-cost standards that every library can and should achieve. They are helpful guidelines to libraries just starting out, while providing important review for more established institutions. As the Alabama Library Association describes them, "Priority [essential] standards are those which should achieved first because of their fundamental importance."
"Two years in the making, QSAC represents the work of more than 100 library directors, trustees and staff members who together created measures of quality for our state's public libraries," said Acting State Librarian Nancy Robertson. "The staff of the Fowlerville Library is to be commended for achieving a vital milestone in library service."