Practical Evaluation Techniques for Librarians
Author : Rachel Applegate
Publisher : ABC-CLIO
Release : 2013-08-15
ISBN-13 : 1610691601
Page : 232 pages
Rating : 4.5/5 from 601 voters
Evaluation is essential to library management: it provides the data that underlies informed and effective decision-making. This book is a one-volume, how-to guide to library evaluation techniques, planning, and reporting. • Provides specific directions for writing surveys, conducting interviews, and performing a wide range of evaluation techniques, accompanied by examples to follow • Covers the evaluation of library's electronic and physical collections, face-to-face and virtual service, and facilities • Supplies a framework and specific tools for proving your library's value and improving how it operates • Lays out a clear methodology for quantifying and demonstrating progress towards an objective: measure, analyze, and report