Practical Evaluation Techniques for Librarians
<p>Evaluation is essential to library management: it provides the data that underlies informed and effective decision-making. This book is a one-volume, how-to guide to library evaluation techniques, planning, and reporting.</p><p><br/>• Provides specific directions for writing surveys, conducting interviews, and performing a wide range of evaluation techniques, accompanied by examples to follow</p><p>• Covers the evaluation of library's electronic and physical collections, face-to-face and virtual service, and facilities</p><p>• Supplies a framework and specific tools for proving your library's value and improving how it operates</p><p>• Lays out a clear methodology for quantifying and demonstrating progress towards an objective: measure, analyze, and report</p>