3. Align
• What’s the purpose of assessing?
• Some guiding principles:
– Connect assessment to the Strategic Plan
– Demonstrate how BC ELN activities support the
Ministry’s Service Plan and the provincial Strategic
Plan
– Demonstrate how BC ELN activities support partner
library missions and the missions of their institutions
4. Assessment Cycle
May to August
•Discuss, Reflect, and Take Action
•Assessment Review and Planning
•define goals/needs of program
area
•develop assessment tools that
will demonstrate efficacy
September to December
•Gather Data on Program area(s)
•Preliminary Analysis
•Share initial results with
stakeholders
January to April
•Further Analysis of Data
•Reporting
•Innovation & Success Report
•Actions & Achievements
•Special report(s)
5. Assess
• Statistics and Counts:
o Circulation
o Database
o Collection size
o Room bookings
o Instruction session numbers
o Clients served/usage by
day/month/year
• Student and Faculty Surveys
• Anecdotal Reporting & Stories
• Suggestion box, comment
cards, Facebook
• Ad hoc conversations and
consultations
• Panels (e.g. of faculty and/or deans)
• Focus groups
• Interviews with stakeholders
• Evaluation forms:
o Teaching evaluations
o Reference desk evaluation forms
• External evaluations
6. Act
• Communicate
– Who do you need to tell
this information to?
– How could it be
packaged? Presented?
• Act on
Assessment