Jane Dysart @ IFLA2014 Evaluating Library &amp; Research Services: Meaningful Measures

Jane Dysart's presentation @ IFLA2014 in Paris to the Library & Research Services to Parliaments Management Workshop

Evaluating Library & Research Services:
Meaningful Measures & Measuring Impact
Library & Research Services for Parliaments
Management Workshop
Paris, August 2014
Jane Dysart, Dysart & Jones Associates, Canada

Agenda
• Meaningful measures
• Why the struggle to define & capture measures?
• Successful measurers
• Types of measures
• Measure frameworks
• Communicating impact
• Resources
• Challenges/exercises

Why Is It a Struggle?
1. Libraries do not set targets for their measures.
2. Not enough understanding of stakeholders’ value
measures.
3. Measures not an integral element of services or
programs.
4. Value measures are not differentiated from
operating measures; outcomes are confused with
outputs, which confuses everyone.
5. No clear responsibility for managing measures.
• http://www.infotoday.com/cilmag/jun13/Hosseini-Ara_Jones--Overcoming-Our-Habits-and-Learning-to-
Measure-Impact.shtml

Communicating Impact
• Language of stakeholders
• Data visualization
• Infographics
– http://ebookfriendly.com/libraries-matter-library-
infographics/?utm_content=bufferdba27&utm_medium=s
ocial&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer
– European Parliament website has infographics at
http://www.europarl.europa.eu/news/en/news-
room/infographics

Resources
• http://dysartjones.com/category/performance-
measurement/
• Overcoming our habits & learning to measure
impact, Rebecca Jones & Moe Hosseini-Ara
• Measuring what matters, Bonnie Gratch Lindauer
• Impact: A practical guide to evaluating
community information projects
• Joe Matthews : The Bottom Line: Determining &
Communicating the Value of the Special Library;
Score Cards for Results; Evaluation &
Measurement of Library Services

Step 1:
Describe Your Project and Identify Your Target Audience
Step 2:
Identify the Evaluation’s Purpose and Key Questions
Step 3:
Design the Evaluation Using Effective Methods
Website Analytics
Social Media Analysis
Surveys
Interviews
Step 4:
Communicate & Report the Evaluation Findings
http://www.knightfoundation.org/media/uploads/publication_pdfs/Im
pact-a-guide-to-Evaluating_Community_Info_Projects.pdf

Questions? Comments?
Other things to explore?

THANKS!
Slides at www.dysartjones.com
Jane Dysart, Dysart & Jones Associates
jane@dysartjones.com

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