The most powerful and effective way to show the value of your library’s services and to make decisions about improving them is with evidence. The best way to get evidence is by employing a proven, structured approach to library assessment.
Holt Zaugg, editor of Assessing Academic Library Performance: A Handbook and coordinator or lead on over 100 academic library assessments will be your guide to gaining skills in the four steps of assessment: design--identifying the assessment link to library goals, scope, questions, methods, data analysis, and IRB approval, data collection and analysis, and dissemination to library stakeholders and via scholarly communications.
You’ll receive an assessment template to use in planning and documenting your study. Using the template as a guide, Holt will take you through the steps. You can apply the guidance to an assessment you want to do or use an example provided. If you’ve never done an assessment or have encountered resistance from staff or leadership, you’ll learn ways to get everyone involved on-board with your assessment project.
You’ll leave the webinar with greater clarity about your assessment goals and tools, guidance, and confidence to begin applying your new assessment skills at your institution. The skills you learn can also open up opportunities in your current position and be the beginning of a new career path.
Learning Outcomes
By the end of this webinar, you will be able to:
- Explain the process of conducting a library assessment
- Use and modify library assessment templates
- Develop and use data collection methods appropriate to your assessment, including survey, interviews, and focus groups.
Presenter
Holt Zaugg, PhD is the Assessment Librarian at the Brigham Young University Library. Over the past 10 years, he has coordinated or conducted over 100 assessments of academic library services, spaces, resources, and personnel interactions with patrons and library employees. He is the author of 15 articles, and over 25 conference and workshop presentations on assessment and the editor of Assessing Academic Library Performance: A Handbook.
Note: This registration is for the Livestream only and does not offer MLA contact hours. MLA contact hours are not applicable to the MLA Consumer Health Information Specialization
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Professional Development Hours: N/A
Program Recording: No
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