Evaluating the Impact of Your Library by David Streatfield

Evaluating the Impact of Your Library by David Streatfield

Assessing impact is increasingly critical to the survival of services: managers now require comprehensive information about effectiveness, especially in relation to users. Outlining a rigorously tested approach to library evaluation and offering practical tools and highly relevant examples, this book enables LIS managers to get to grips with the slippery concept of service impact and to address their own impact questions in their planning. The 2nd edition is fully updated to include international approaches to qualitative library evaluation, new international research, and current debates on the evolving nature of evaluation, as well as reflections on the importance of involving stakeholders and of evaluation to guide advocacy. 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. LIS policy shapers and managers in public, education (schools, further and higher education), health and special libraries and information services working in any country or internationally and people engaged in professional education in the field such as lecturers or students.

"Writing a review on a second edition of any book that one has reviewed before is not an easy task, especially if one's favourable opinion shows up on the cover of the second edition for attracting readers's attentionNevertheless, I thought that it is worth repeating myself six and a half years later because this edition is as good as the first one."

-- Information Research

David Streatfield, Sharon Markless

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ISBN 13	9781856048125
ISBN 10	1856048128
Title	Evaluating the Impact of Your Library
Author	David Streatfield
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Facet Publishing
Year published	2012-12-23
Number of pages	288
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