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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-US style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">You are kindly invited to participate in the <SPAN style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold">Qualitative and Quantitative Methods in Libraries International Conference<B> </B></SPAN>(QQML2009), </SPAN><SPAN lang=EN-US style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Chania, Crete, Greece, 26-29 of May, 2009.</SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-US style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">The conference celebrates the 10th year after the successful IATUL 1999 conference organized in Chania under the leadership of Dr. Anthi Katsirikou then director of the library of Technical University of Crete.</SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-US style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">QQML2009 is organized under the umbrella of ASMDA International Society organising conferences on data analysis from 1981.</SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-US style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><EM><FONT size=3><SPAN lang=EN-GB style="FONT-SIZE: 9pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Palatino Linotype'; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EL; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><FONT size=2>Qualitative and</FONT> </SPAN></FONT><FONT face="Palatino Linotype" size=2><SPAN style="mso-default-font-family: 'Palatino Linotype'; mso-latin-font-family: 'Palatino Linotype'; mso-greek-font-family: 'Palatino Linotype'; mso-cyrillic-font-family: 'Palatino Linotype'; mso-armenian-font-family: 'Palatino Linotype'; mso-hebrew-font-family: 'Palatino Linotype'; mso-currency-font-family: 'Palatino Linotype'; mso-latinext-font-family: 'Palatino Linotype'" editor_id="mce_editor_0">Quantitative</SPAN></FONT></SPAN></EM><SPAN lang=EN-GB style="FONT-SIZE: 9pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Palatino Linotype'; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EL; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><FONT size=2><SPAN style="mso-default-font-family: 'Palatino Linotype'; mso-latin-font-family: 'Palatino Linotype'; mso-greek-font-family: 'Palatino Linotype'; mso-cyrillic-font-family: 'Palatino Linotype'; mso-armenian-font-family: 'Palatino Linotype'; mso-hebrew-font-family: 'Palatino Linotype'; mso-currency-font-family: 'Palatino Linotype'; mso-latinext-font-family: 'Palatino Linotype'"> </SPAN><I><SPAN style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold"><SPAN style="mso-default-font-family: 'Palatino Linotype'; mso-latin-font-family: 'Palatino Linotype'; mso-greek-font-family: 'Palatino Linotype'; mso-cyrillic-font-family: 'Palatino Linotype'; mso-armenian-font-family: 'Palatino Linotype'; mso-hebrew-font-family: 'Palatino Linotype'; mso-currency-font-family: 'Palatino Linotype'; mso-latinext-font-family: 'Palatino Linotype'" editor_id="mce_editor_0">Methods</SPAN></SPAN></I></FONT><SPAN style="mso-default-font-family: 'Palatino Linotype'; mso-latin-font-family: 'Palatino Linotype'; mso-greek-font-family: 'Palatino Linotype'; mso-cyrillic-font-family: 'Palatino Linotype'; mso-armenian-font-family: 'Palatino Linotype'; mso-hebrew-font-family: 'Palatino Linotype'; mso-currency-font-family: 'Palatino Linotype'; mso-latinext-font-family: 'Palatino Linotype'"> (QQM) are proved more and more popular tools for Librarians, because of their usefulness to the everyday professional life. QQM aim to the assessment</SPAN></SPAN><SPAN lang=EN-GB style="FONT-SIZE: 9pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Palatino Linotype'; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EL; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><SPAN style="mso-default-font-family: 'Palatino Linotype'; mso-latin-font-family: 'Palatino Linotype'; mso-greek-font-family: 'Palatino Linotype'; mso-cyrillic-font-family: 'Palatino Linotype'; mso-armenian-font-family: 'Palatino Linotype'; mso-hebrew-font-family: 'Palatino Linotype'; mso-currency-font-family: 'Palatino Linotype'; mso-latinext-font-family: 'Palatino Linotype'"> </SPAN><SPAN lang=EN style="FONT-SIZE: 9pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Palatino Linotype'; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EL; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">and improvement of the services, to the measurement of the functional effectiveness and efficiency. QQM are the mean to make decisions on fund allocation and financial alternatives. Librarians use also QQM in order </SPAN><SPAN lang=EN-GB style="FONT-SIZE: 9pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Palatino Linotype'; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EL; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">to determine why and when their users appreciate their services. This is the start point of the innovation involvement and the ongoing procedure of the excellent performance. Systematic development of quality management in libraries requires a detailed framework, including the quality management standards, the measurement indicators, the self-appraisal schedules and the operational rules. These standards are practice-oriented tools and a benchmarking result. Their basic function is to express responsibly the customer (library user) -supplier (library services) relationship and provide a systematic approach to the continuous change onto excellence. The indoor and outdoor relationships of libraries are dependent of their communication and marketing capabilities, challenges, opportunities and implementation programmes.</SPAN><SPAN lang=EN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EL; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA"> </SPAN></SPAN></SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-US style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">The Conference will attend library professionals: professors, administrators, technologists, museum scientists, archivists, decision makers and managers.</SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-US style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><SPAN lang=EN-US style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EL; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA">As the conference papers will be included in a Book titled: <BR>"<STRONG><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Advances in Qualitative and Quantitative Methods in Libraries</SPAN></STRONG>" <BR>please follow precisely the given Template following the format and instructions from World Scientific Publishing Co.</SPAN></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-US style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><SPAN lang=EN-US style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EL; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA">If you propose a Special Session including 4-5 papers, the papers will be included into the book as a Specific Chapter under the title of the special session.</SPAN></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-US style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><SPAN lang=EN-US style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EL; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA">Special Session proposals should have the session title, the name and affiliation of the organizer and a brief description (5-10 lines).</SPAN></SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-US style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><SPAN lang=EN-US style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">You can also submit your Abstract electronically by using the facilities of the conference website </SPAN></SPAN><SPAN lang=EN-US style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">at: <A href="http://www.isast.org">www.isast.org</A> <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-US style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><o:p><STRONG>For presentation regarding your Library or your Organisation please contact Dr. Anthi Katsirikou</STRONG> at <A href="mailto:anthi@asmda.com">anthi@asmda.com</A> </o:p></SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-US style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Prof. Christos H. Skiadas</SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-US style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Director, Data Analysis nad Forecasting Laboratory</SPAN></P>
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