Rachel Applegate

Practical Evaluation Techniques for Librarians (eBook, PDF)

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Library professionals-regardless of whether they operate in a school, public, or academic library setting-need to have effective evaluation skills in order to be accountable to stakeholders and to effect informed improvement. Practical Evaluation Techniques for Librarians provides information and guidance that is highly useful and accessible for all librarians looking to intelligently manage the strengths and weaknesses of their library as well as communicate its value to its stakeholders.

Rather than focusing on data-gathering methods appropriate for researchers, the book concentrates on data collection at the local level that enables informed managerial decision-making. It describes and compares techniques that can be used with any level or type of resource-staffing, software, and expertise, for example-in any size library. Author Rachel Applegate makes it clear that accountability is everywhere and imperative, and any librarian can learn the simple techniques to benefit from evaluation.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing Inc
• Seitenzahl: 244
• Altersempfehlung: ab 7 Jahre
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. August 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781610691604
• Artikelnr.: 68184008

Autorenporträt

Rachel Applegate, MLS, PhD, is associate professor of library and information science at Indiana University, Indianapolis, IN.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction Chapter 1: Personal Techniques Surveys Interviews Focus Groups
Usability Instructional Evaluation Observation: Tallies Unobtrusive
Observation: Reference Testing Mystery Shopping Chapter 2: Impersonal
Techniques List-Checking Citation Analysis Collection Mapping Use Analysis
Availability Process Evaluation Transaction Log Analysis Chapter 3:
Technique Selection and Sampling Decision Factors Summarizing and Analyzing
Data Using Technology Using Consultants Chapter 4: Planning for Evaluation
Library Operations Evaluation Plans (LOEPs) Chapter 5: Reporting about
Evaluation Targeted Evaluation Reports Periodic Organizational Reports
Reporting and Organizational Communication Afterword: How to Handle Numbers
Appendix A: Study Questions Answer Key Appendix B: Formatting Data Index