Author Archives: Borrower Services

Incentives to get people to return books 2016 – you said, we did

Over the last couple of years we have been talking with student representatives in the Students Union about how to encourage people to return their library books so that they are available for other people. Here are a few changes … Continue reading

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Standards of Service 2016-17

The Library has developed a suite of customer-focused service standards and measures our performance against these standards. Our performance during 2015-16 and targets for the year ahead have now been published. If you have any feedback or comments, please let … Continue reading

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Library Services Customer Satisfaction Survey 2015 – You Said, We Did!

Thank you to everyone who responded to the 2015 Library Services Satisfaction Survey just before Christmas. The focus of the survey was on overall satisfaction, speed of service delivery, quality of staff interactions, etc. and was sent to a 10% sample … Continue reading

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Coming soon: improved electronic document delivery from the British Library

The British Library have recently launched a new improved service for delivering journal articles and book chapters electronically. We’ll be adopting it from January 27th this year. We’re already used to fulfilling your Inter-library loan (Document Supply) requests electronically as much … Continue reading

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Library achieves Customer Services Excellence

Library Services has now achieved certification against the Customer Service Excellence (CSE) Standard following an accreditation visit in March. We are delighted with the outcome and very grateful to colleagues and customers who helped in any way, especially those who … Continue reading

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Students with Disabilities Library Survey 2014 – You Said, We Did!

In February 2014 we emailed a survey to 1,673 students who were registered with Disability Services in order to evaluate the service that the Library provides to them. Overall the survey shows that the Library is providing a good service … Continue reading

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Standards of Service

The Library has developed a suite of customer-focused service standards and measured our current performance against these standards. If you have any feedback or comments, please let us know via our Customer Feedback Page. We are particularly interested to hear … Continue reading

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Book Swap in McClay

Having been asked on many occasion for light reading and fiction the McClay Library is piloting a book swap scheme where you can donate books that you have finished with and, if you want, take another book to read. We … Continue reading

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Library complaints policy – help us find out when things go wrong

The Library is currently working towards Customer Service Excellence accreditation. As part of this exercise we are consulting groups of users on various policies. Our Complaints Policy is an important element in our customer services strategy and we want to be … Continue reading

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Getting to know the Library at Queen’s

Do you want to use the Library but are not quite sure how to? Whether you are a new student or just need a refresher, you can go to a new guide especially designed to introduce you to the Library. … Continue reading

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