Assessing Academic Library Performance

doi:10.5771/9781538149249

Assessing Academic Library Performance

A Handbook

Published 2021

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doi.org/10.5771/9781538149249
ISBN print: 978-1-5381-4923-2
ISBN online: 978-1-5381-4924-9
Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham

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Zusammenfassung

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.

Schlagworte

Evaluation assessment Library Management Academic Librarianship Service assessment Library evaluations library planning

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Preface
- Contents
- List of Figures, Tables, and Chapter Appendices
- Preface
1–14 Ch01. Assessment Framework 1–14
15–24 Ch02. Service Assessments 15–24
25–32 Ch03. Case Study 25–32
33–46 Ch04. Learning from Our Users 33–46
47–58 Ch05. Assessing and Evaluating the Maryland Shared Open Access Repository 47–58
59–64 Ch06. Resources Assessments 59–64
65–74 Ch07. Weeding Decisions for a Science and Engineering Print Collection 65–74
75–86 Ch08. A Playbook for Journal License Negotiations 75–86
87–94 Ch09. Space Assessments 87–94
95–106 Ch10. Creating Space with Our Community in Mind 95–106
107–118 Ch11. Space Assessment Pre-Op 107–118
119–134 Ch12. Facilitating Innovative Research, Creative Thinking, and Problem-Solving 119–134
135–142 Ch13. Personnel Relationship Assessments 135–142
143–152 Ch14. A Deep Bench 143–152
153–162 Ch15. Sorting Out Library Programs, Services, and Tasks 153–162
163–172 Ch16. Communication Networks Within an Academic Library 163–172
173–182 Ch17. What’s Next? 173–182
183–186 Index 183–186
187–188 About the Editor 187–188
189–196 About the Contributors 189–196

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