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About this book
Selected as a 2025 Doody's Core Title
Assessment is essential to describe a library's value and to inform decision-making.
Using the four key assessment components of design, data collection, data analysis, and dissemination, Assessing Academic Library Performance: A Handbook provides strategies and case studies for performing four different types of assessments:
Service assessments for the library's outward and inward facing services that either help library users or other library employees to help users. These assessments focus on providing and improving how things are done to better serve others.Resources assessments for the physical and virtual resources that the library has in its holdings or to which it provides access. Resources are the reason libraries exist as they help patrons in instructional and research pursuits.Space assessments for physical and online library spaces. These assessments help ensure that spaces meet user needs.Personnel relationship assessments look at how library employees interact with each other. as library professionals. While not for evaluation or advancement purposes, these types of assessments provide information on what library employees can do to improve their relationships with one another.
Each section has information on conducting each aspect of libraries followed by three examples to illustrate how assessment is used to support descriptions of library value and to help library employees make decisions that are critical to library improvement.
Assessment is essential to describe a library's value and to inform decision-making.
Using the four key assessment components of design, data collection, data analysis, and dissemination, Assessing Academic Library Performance: A Handbook provides strategies and case studies for performing four different types of assessments:
Service assessments for the library's outward and inward facing services that either help library users or other library employees to help users. These assessments focus on providing and improving how things are done to better serve others.Resources assessments for the physical and virtual resources that the library has in its holdings or to which it provides access. Resources are the reason libraries exist as they help patrons in instructional and research pursuits.Space assessments for physical and online library spaces. These assessments help ensure that spaces meet user needs.Personnel relationship assessments look at how library employees interact with each other. as library professionals. While not for evaluation or advancement purposes, these types of assessments provide information on what library employees can do to improve their relationships with one another.
Each section has information on conducting each aspect of libraries followed by three examples to illustrate how assessment is used to support descriptions of library value and to help library employees make decisions that are critical to library improvement.
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Table of contents
- Contents
- List of Figures, Tables, and Chapter Appendices
- Preface
- Ch01. Assessment Framework
- Ch02. Service Assessments
- Ch03. Case Study
- Ch04. Learning from Our Users
- Ch05. Assessing and Evaluating the Maryland Shared Open Access Repository
- Ch06. Resources Assessments
- Ch07. Weeding Decisions for a Science and Engineering Print Collection
- Ch08. A Playbook for Journal License Negotiations
- Ch09. Space Assessments
- Ch10. Creating Space with Our Community in Mind
- Ch11. Space Assessment Pre-Op
- Ch12. Facilitating Innovative Research, Creative Thinking, and Problem-Solving
- Ch13. Personnel Relationship Assessments
- Ch14. A Deep Bench
- Ch15. Sorting Out Library Programs, Services, and Tasks
- Ch16. Communication Networks Within an Academic Library
- Ch17. What’s Next?
- Index
- About the Editor
- About the Contributors