assessment

Numbers vs. meaning

Wednesday, July 21st, 2010

Forgive this less-than-well-thought-out post. I’ve been thinking a lot about assessment lately and the librarianly love of numbers in assessment, and I’m a troubled by the way that some academic libraries tend to measure how well they are supporting the academic mission of the institution.
Librarians keep a lot of statistics and measure a lot of [...]

Shades of gray

Monday, November 2nd, 2009

Ever since the news of LibLime’s enterprise version of Koha and whether or not their actions consisted a fork of the code, I’ve been thinking about how black and white some of us (me included, at times) tend to see library products and library vendors. Stephen Abram’s “position paper” on open source ILSes got me [...]

Great new books on my “to read” list

Monday, July 6th, 2009

I must admit that the last time I read a non-baby-related book was probably last Fall. And now all these great books are coming out from the LIS presses that I’m absolutely dying to read! This is torture!
The one I’m probably most excited about is Chrystie Hill’s long-awaited Inside, Outside and Online which is all [...]

Consistency or effectiveness in instruction and assessment

Sunday, September 7th, 2008

The part of my still new-ish job that causes my the most worry is assessment. I’d hoped to have time this summer to do some serious research on information literacy assessment and get some good ideas for how to best assess library instruction this Fall. However, I got too busy with other, more pressing, tasks [...]

Assessing social technologies in libraries

Thursday, February 21st, 2008

A Facebook friend messaged me yesterday with a library 2.0 assessment-related question that I didn’t have the answer to, but was curious about myself. So I thought I’d put it out to the hive mind:
“[I was] wondering if you knew of any libraries who are doing a great job at assessing the impact or use [...]