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The complete collections assessment manual : a holistic approach / Madeline M. Kelly.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780838918685 (paperback)
- Physical Description: xx, 250 pages : illustrations ; 28 cm
- Publisher: Chicago : ALA Neal-Schuman, 2021.
Content descriptions
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Formatted Contents Note: | Part I: Planning a collections assessment program -- Holistic collections assessment -- Assessment goals -- Assessment stakeholders -- Selecting data and methods -- Project planning -- Communication best practices -- Special considerations -- Part II: Metrics and methods -- Putting the pieces together: How to use Part II -- Inventory -- Reputable bibliographies -- Modified brief test -- Uniqueness -- Peer benchmarking -- E-Resource environmental scan -- Patron demographic mapping -- User surveys -- Interviews -- Focus groups -- Persona exercises -- Circulation analysis -- Physical item return-on-investment (ROI) -- Interlibrary loan (ILL) analysis -- E-Resource use analysis -- Turnaway analysis -- Citation analysis -- Constituent publishing outlets -- Bibliometric analysis -- Altmetric analysis -- Part III: Appendixes -- Appendix A: Assessment planning templates -- Appendix B: Software to support assessment -- Appendix C: Sample collections assessment portfolios. |
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| Subject: | Collection management (Libraries) > Evaluation. |
- American Library Association
Assessment is increasingly integral to building, managing, and justifying library collections. Unfortunately, assessment can also be a daunting undertaking. And though every institution is unique, as this manual demonstrates, there's no need to reinvent the wheel. Spanning both concept and practice, Kelly offers a holistic assessment framework suitable to a variety of collections and contexts. With a structure that makes it applicable as both a training tool for practicing librarians and a useful course text for library students, this manual
- introduces foundational assessment methodologies then provides concrete guidance on how to contextualize those methodologies within a holistic collections assessment program;
- covers topics such as assessment goals, assessment stakeholders, selecting data and methodologies, working through project constraints, and project planning;
- includes sample assessment program structures and other useful templates;
- provides step-by-step instructions for more than a dozen specific methodologies, describing which aspect of the collection is being measured, what goals the methodology can address, technological requirements, recommended visualizations, and other helpful pointers; and
- shares best practices for communicating effectively with internal and external stakeholders about assessment projects, with sample communication plans that can be easily adapted.
Bridging the divide between the big picture and the nitty gritty, this manual guides the reader through the development and implementation of a collections assessment program tailored to local needs and resources.
- American Library Association
Bridging the divide between the big picture and the nitty gritty, this manual guides the reader through the development and implementation of a collections assessment program tailored to local needs and resources. - Baker & Taylor
"Spanning both concept and practice, Kelly offers a holistic assessment framework suitable to a variety of collections and contexts. This manual is applicable as both a training tool for practicing librarians and a useful course text for library students"-- - Book News
This manual guides librarians working in any type of library through major collections assessment methods and how to contextualize those methods within a broader assessment framework. It emphasizes a big-picture approach that can be applied to any aspect of libraries and mixing and matching a variety of metrics to build an understanding of a collectionâs composition and impact. It discusses the development of an assessment program or project, including holistic collections assessment, goal-setting, stakeholders, selecting data and methods, project planning, best practices for communication, and special considerations like sampling, merging data, and user privacy, then the implementation of 20 assessment techniques, tools, or methods, with step-by-step instructions for preparing and analyzing assessment data and recommended visualizations for communicating results. These chapters include basic information on how resource-intensive each method is to implement, its application formats, the goals it supports, and its strengths and limitations, as well as complementary assessment methods. Annotation ©2020 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com) - Chicago Distribution Center
Assessment is increasingly integral to building, managing, and justifying library collections. Unfortunately, assessment can also be a daunting undertaking. And though every institution is unique, as this manual demonstrates, there’s no need to reinvent the wheel. Spanning both concept and practice, Kelly offers a holistic assessment framework suitable to a variety of collections and contexts. With a structure that makes it applicable as both a training tool for practicing librarians and a useful course text for library students, this manual
- introduces foundational assessment methodologies then provides concrete guidance on how to contextualize those methodologies within a holistic collections assessment program;
- covers topics such as assessment goals, assessment stakeholders, selecting data and methodologies, working through project constraints, and project planning;
- includes sample assessment program structures and other useful templates;
- provides step-by-step instructions for more than a dozen specific methodologies, describing which aspect of the collection is being measured, what goals the methodology can address, technological requirements, recommended visualizations, and other helpful pointers; and
- shares best practices for communicating effectively with internal and external stakeholders about assessment projects, with sample communication plans that can be easily adapted.
