Date: April 30, 2015, 12:00 p.m. – 1:15 p.m. EDT
Program: Why Assessment? An Introduction & How to be Successful with Denise Davis, Deputy Director, Sacramento Public Library, Sacramento, CA.
Outcomes:
Participants will be able to:
· Define assessment for the purposes of this webinar.
· Describe basic assessment activities that any library–large or small, urban or rural–can implement.
· Align assessment with existing outputs reported annually in state survey, with additional “performance feedback” from patrons to establish a 360 degree perspective on a specific service identified to assessment (e.g., programming).
· Describe tools available to begin basic assessment – current service output data (program #, attendance, etc. from NYS PL survey) and the PLA performance measures surveys as an example of easy surveys to administer with patrons that align with existing service measures being reported annually.
· Discuss national initiatives that are supporting libraries in capturing service assessment data – Edge Initiative, Digital inclusion, PLA Project Outcome, US Impact Survey, Turn the Page (PLA advocacy initiative).
Register at: https://scrlc.org/events/view/5585