Evaluating the Impact of Your Library, Second Edition<http://ala-publishing.informz.net/z/cjUucD9taT0zNDUzMTAxJnA9MSZ1PTEwMjY2MjQzMzAmbGk9MTg2ODkzNjc/index.html> Sharon Markless and David Streatfield Item Number: 978-1-85604-812-5
Publisher: Facet Price: $95.00 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, the new second edition of Evaluating the Impact of Your Library enables library managers to get to grips with the slippery concept of service impact and to address their own impact questions in their planning. Markless and Streatfield fully update the text 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 * Putting the impact into planning * Success criteria and impact indicators * Making things happen using activities and process indicators * Gathering and interpreting evidence * Taking stock, setting targets, and development planning * Performing national or international evaluation * Next steps **SLG: I would appreciate hearing from members who have used the earlier edition of the book and applied it to Judaica/Hebraica librarianship. Please post to either the Mentoring Committee or Hasafran listserv. Stephanie (Sara Leah) Gross MSLIS, MATESOL Chair, AJL Mentoring Member, AJL Librarianship and Education Committee Pollack Library Yeshiva University 500 West 185th Street New York NY 10033-3229 212.960.5442 Skype: Stephanie.l.gross http://www.linkedin.com/in/stephanielgross http://yeshiva.academia.edu/StephanieGross "As we look ahead to the next century, leaders will be those who empower others." - Bill Gates.
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