OCLC Hosts Assessment Strategies Seminar
Thinking about assessment within your library? Check out videos from OCLC's recent Collective Insight series symposium.
"Getting the Right Fit: Tailoring Assessment Strategies for Your Library" was a half-day event at Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts, on April 22, and co-hosted by the Boston Library Consortium and OCLC.
Librarians find themselves in an ever-shifting landscape where tight budgets, increased electronic material purchasing, and ever-expanding user expectations influence the use and the perceived value of the library. Central to a library’s success will be the ability to present compelling evidence, backed by data to demonstrate the library’s contribution to their institution’s mission and goals. A key component to determining and expressing the value of the library is increasingly being drawn from a successful assessment program.
This event—co-hosted by the Boston Library Consortium and OCLC—helped to define the practice of assessment, explored what drives a successful assessment program, and identified practical tools and techniques that can be tailored to use in reaching the specific assessment goals of your library.