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Key topics include:    The demand for evidence  Getting to grips with impact  The research base of this work  Putting the impact into planning  Getting things clear: objectives  Success criteria and impact indicators: how you know you are making a difference  Making things happen: activities and process indicators Thinking about evidence  Gathering and interpreting evidence  Taking stock, setting targets and development planning  Doing national or international evaluation Where do we go from here?   Readership: Practising library and information service managers and policy makers in the field. 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Although library impact evaluation is evolving, most of the literature focuses on the methods used and on the evaluation findings. There is a dearth of case studies focusing on the evaluation problems presented by libraries, how these problems are addressed and what lessons can be learnt in the process. This book fills that gap by presenting a series of case studies through which the authors draw on current impact evaluation thinking to address a variety of evaluation problems.   Doing Library Evaluation complements the authors' earlier Facet Publishing book Evaluating the Impact of Your Library by showing how the impact evaluation model presented there has been applied to meet a variety of real evaluation challenges. The authors show how they have applied advances in thinking drawn from education and international development evaluation. They also show how progress in programme theory-based evaluation is helping to shape the world of library impact evaluation.    The book offers a wide range of case study settings, covering UK public, health, school and academic libraries and the evaluation programme of a national research funding body, as well as international library development programmes funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and by the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA).    The approaches to library evaluation explored in the case studies encompass:        self-evaluation by library managers  action research conducted by academic library teams  a large-scale market survey of perceptions of public libraries  limited and more developed programme evaluations  application of programme theory-driven approaches to evaluation at national and international levels.    The book will be essential reading for library managers and directors, particularly those working at national, public, academic, health and school libraries. 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