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Elements of success for user services
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Proceedings of the 4th annual ACM SIGUCCS conference on User services table of contents
Tucson, Arizona
SESSION: Session 1: elements of success for user services table of contents
Pages: 1 - 7  
Year of Publication: 1976
Author
Lyle B. Smith  Northern Illinois University, DeKalb
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SIGUCCS: ACM Special Interest Group on University and College Computing Services
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ACM  New York, NY, USA
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ABSTRACT

There are five main components to User Services. The four usually considered are documentation, consultation, a software library and teaching. This paper examines the key features of each of these four services that are necessary for success. The fifth, often overlooked component, upon which the other four depend for success, is discussed in some detail. This basic and most important ingredient of successful delivery of computing services is "knowing the users and their needs".