Measuring Use, Assessing Success, Part One: Measure, Assess, Improve, Repeat: Using Library Performance Metrics

About the Webinar

Increasingly, all kinds of libraries are expected not only to gather and report data about their activities but also to analyze that data and use
it to evaluate their performance. Such an analysis is difficult to undertake or even begin without a framework that informs the evaluation process.

Performance metrics can assist with this difficulty but present their own sets of challenges. What performance metrics are relevant to library operations? Are performance metrics already being successfully applied in libraries? How can information standards assist with this area of growing importance to libraries, the entities they report to, and the information providers that supply them?

Practitioners of 'evidence-based librarianship' will discuss and demonstrate evaluations of library collections and services using a variety of performance metrics. Metrics, when utilized creatively, offer many far-reaching applications and opportunities for demonstration of return-on-investment and proof of a library's value to its parent institution, as well as new responsibilities to continue to show relevance.

Part Two of this webinar, "Count Me In: Measuring Individual Item Usage," will be held on September 15.

Event Sessions

Additional Information

• Registration closes at 12:00 pm Eastern on September 8, 2010. Cancellations made by August 30, 2010 will receive a refund, less a $20 cancellation. After that date, there are no refunds.
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