Joe Matthews
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For many years, Joe has been a library consultant involved in a wide range of projects ranging from strategic planning, evaluation of library services and technology planning.

As a consultant, Joe has assisted numerous libraries and local governments in a wide variety of projects including:
  • Assisting with the assessment of academic libraries
  • Assessing the value and performance of services
  • Preparing strategic plans
  • Developing performance measures for libraries
  • Assessing the options for a shared automated library system
  • Preparing long range plans for a consortium of libraries
  • Developing a Library Balanced Scorecard
  • Preparing information technology plans
  • Assessing the effectiveness and efficiency of IT departments
  • Selecting and implementing automated library information systems.


Joe’s many clients include academic, public, and special libraries as well as library consortium, state library agencies and library boards. Joe has taught a wide variety of workshops and has spoken at numerous library association meetings.

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