"This authoritative guide to conducting assessments within academic libraries is organized into four section: services, resources, spaces, and personnel. The book serves as a springboard to adopt, adapt, or create assessments to describe a library's value and to plan for improvement"--
This authoritative guide to conducting assessments within academic libraries is organized into four section: services, resources, spaces, and personnel. The book serves as a springboard to adopt, adapt, or create assessments to describe a library’s value and to plan for improvement.
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Chapter 1 Assessment Framework |
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Chapter 2 Service Assessments |
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Chapter 3 Case Study: Assessing Services and Staffing for Library Service Points |
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Chapter 4 Learning from Our Users: A Usability Study of a Library Website |
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Chapter 5 Assessing and Evaluating the Maryland Shared Open Access Repository |
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47 | (12) |
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Chapter 6 Resources Assessments |
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Chapter 7 Weeding Decisions for a Science and Engineering Print Collection |
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Chapter 8 A Playbook for Journal License Negotiations: Data-Informed Assessment |
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Chapter 9 Space Assessments |
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87 | (8) |
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Chapter 10 Creating Space with Our Community in Mind: A Library Building Assessment Toolkit |
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Chapter 11 Space Assessment Pre-Op: Operational Considerations when Space Planning for Libraries |
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Chapter 12 Facilitating Innovative Research, Creative Thinking, and Problem-Solving: A Collaborative Assessment Framework |
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Chapter 13 Personnel Relationship Assessments |
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Chapter 14 A Deep Bench: Staff Enrich Library Assessment Activities in an Academic Library |
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143 | (10) |
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Chapter 15 Sorting Out Library Programs, Services, and Tasks: Identifying Strategic Connections |
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Chapter 16 Communication Networks Within an Academic Library |
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| Index |
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| About the Editor |
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| About the Contributors |
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Holt Zaugg is the assessment librarian at Brigham Young University. Prior to becoming the assessment librarian, he worked in the K-12 education system in Alberta, Canada. In addition to his teaching duties he was trained to present over 30 teacher professional development workshops on topics including differentiated instruction, team building, time management, classroom management, cultural competence, resiliency, and First Nations, Metis and Inuit education.
He holds a masters degrees in instructional science and library science and a doctorate in educational inquiry, measurement, and evaluation. For the past six years he has led the assessment efforts at the BYU Library to evaluate services, resources, spaces, and personnel relationships.
