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Library enquiry and service standards results

13 Aug 2024

In 2023 we updated our standards. We combined our LAS Enquiry Standards with our LAS Service Standards into a new LAS Enquiry and Service Standards. We can now share our achieved results compared to our targets.

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Our standards set out the quality of customer service our members can expect to receive from library staff. The standards also set out the length of time we expect to take to get reply to your questions.

We are committed to monitoring these standards and sharing the results. The tables below show our standards, our target timescales and customer satisfaction as well as the actual result for 2023.

Data for these targets come from our annual library survey, our internal monitoring period and online feedback forms completed by members who have used our services.


Your library - in person and online

Target 

  2023 Results

 We will achieve a 95% satisfaction rating of Library and Archive Service (LAS) Annual Survey respondents who were ֱsatisfiedֱ or ֱvery satisfiedֱ with the library services overall  94%
 We will achieve a 95% satisfaction rating of ֱgoodֱ or ֱexcellentֱ for events  96%
 We will keep the Library and Heritage Centre open for 99% of our advertised hours, excluding planned closures  Achieved
 Our core library systems will be available 24/7 99% of the time excluding planned maintenance  Achieved
 We will report Library and Archive systems faults to suppliers within one working day of being aware of the problem  Achieved


Your time is important to us ֱ timeliness

 Target

 2023 Results

 We will pick up webchat enquiries within 90 seconds  95% achieved
 Phone calls will be answered within three rings  94% achieved
 All donations offered will be accepted or rejected within 60 working days  Achieved
 We will supply an acknowledgement to email enquiries and complaints within one working day

98% Q2-4*

 We will answer archive enquiries within 10 days  Achieved
 We will supply a literature search in response to a request from members within 10 working days of receiving the request  98% Achieved

 

*Target suspended in Q1 due to industrial action and staffing


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Target

 

2023 Results

 95% of attendees at drop-ins and 121 training sessions will rate the training as ֱexcellentֱ or ֱgoodֱ 99%
 98% of members will rate literature searches as good or excellent
99%
 98% of customers will rate staff as knowledgeable
97%
 98% of customers will rate staff as friendly and helpful  97%
 100% of supervised special collections research sessions will be rated ֱgoodֱ or ֱexcellentֱ 100%
 95% of customers will be ֱsatisfiedֱ or ֱvery satisfiedֱ with our responses to enquiries and complaints 97%

 

Page last updated - 13/08/2024