ASQ unveils new Web-based Knowledge Center

The American Society for Quality (ASQ) now offers an advanced online Knowledge Center to help Web users find and access all things quality.

The Knowledge Center provides a unique and user-friendly venue where Web visitors can learn about quality, explore quality hot topics and easily navigate through a vast array of quality tools and resources. Features such as “Ask a Librarian” provide users with customized research options.

It’s located at www.asq.org/knowledge-center.

 Key features of the Knowledge Center include:

• Knowledge Center Search – A powerful new search tool that allows Web users to search ASQ’s archives, which include tens of thousands of journal articles, books, standards, and e-learning opportunities. The tool lets users ”slice and dice” their results to quickly focus on specific content.
• Standards Central – A Web destination for the latest news and how-to information on standards. Standards Central includes content meant for newcomers to the world of standards — including a “Standards 101” section — as well as tools and resources for the most sophisticated users and developers of standards. This section also features “Ask the Standards Team,” a free service that lets standards users at any level ask specific questions and receive customized answers.
• Submissions – A one-stop Web page for anyone interested in writing for ASQ. It contains information on everything from submitting short journal and Web articles to crafting book proposals and conference presentations.

The Knowledge Center also will feature “Editor’s Picks” and specially featured content that will change often, so that Web users will feel invited to return again and again.

“The Knowledge Center unlocks 62 years of accumulated quality knowledge for the benefit of everyone,” said Paul Borawski, executive director and chief strategic officer of ASQ. “The information found in the Center is a valuable resource not only to quality professionals and practitioners, but anyone seeking to further their knowledge of quality practices. It furthers our ability to become the community for everyone who seeks quality concepts, technology, and tools to improve themselves and their world.”

The Knowledge Center can be accessed from anywhere on the ASQ Web site, thanks to links added to the “primary navigation” found in the left column of every page.

The American Society for Quality, www.asq.org, has been the world’s leading authority on quality for 60 years. With more than 93,000 individual and organizational members, the professional association advances learning, quality improvement and knowledge exchange to improve business results, and to create better workplaces and communities worldwide. As champion of the quality movement, ASQ offers technologies, concepts, tools and training to quality professionals, quality practitioners and everyday consumers, encouraging all to Make Good Great. ASQ has been the sole administrator of the prestigious Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award since 1991. Headquartered in Milwaukee, Wis., ASQ is a founding partner of the American Customer Satisfaction Index (ACSI), a prominent quarterly economic indicator, and also produces the Quarterly Quality Report.