Information Management Associates

A consultancy, training and research team

IMA current and recent work highlights

  • National evaluation of the Leading Modern Public Libraries leadership development programme for the Museums, Libraries and Archives Council (working with the Centre for the Public Library in Society, University of Sheffield)
    http://www.mla.gov.uk/resources/
  • Natural England Customer Review of Information and Library Services, commissioned by the Department for Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) and covering staff of the Countryside Agency (Landscape, Access and Recreation Division), English Nature and the environmental land management staff of Defra’s Rural Development Service
  • Review and Evaluation of WiFi in Public Libraries for the Museums, Libraries and Archives Council (working with Civic Regeneration)
    http://www.regenerateit.co.uk/report.pdf
  • Helping the University of Hertfordshire Learning and Information Services to develop their work on student information skills (information literacy skills) for the modern knowledge society
  • Review of research literature on Information literacy, libraries and students’ experience of learning in higher education – two IMA Consultants are part of the University of Sheffield Department of Information Studies team conducting this work for the Higher Education Academy
  • Assessing the potential for Information and knowledge Management at NICE for the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence
  • Exploring the potential for developing a Library for the STEM (Science, technology, Engineering and Mathematics) Project
  • Training workshops on library service evaluation and teaching skills for CILIP (the Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals).
    See www.cilip.org.uk/training/training
  • IMA consultants Sharon Markless and David Streatfield have distilled the IMA impact evaluation experience in their new book Evaluating the impact of your library1

1. Evaluating the impact of your library by Sharon Markless and David Streatfield London Facet Publications 2006 http://www.facetshop.co.uk/ ↩