Viewing Library Metrics from Different Perspectives
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A01=Danuta A. Nitecki
A01=Peter Hernon
A01=Robert E. Dugan
Accountability
Affordability
Assessment
Author_Danuta A. Nitecki
Author_Peter Hernon
Author_Robert E. Dugan
Benchmarking
Best Practices
Budgets
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Community Service
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Evaluation
Inputs
Instructional Support
Management Information Systems
Methods of Data Collection
Outcomes
Outputs
Parent Institutions
Sharing
Stakeholders
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- ISBN 9781591586654
- Weight: 482g
- Dimensions: 178 x 254mm
- Publication Date: 27 Aug 2009
- Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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This guidebook shows academic libraries how to use innovative new performance metrics to achieve greater accountability and higher levels of service.
Viewing Library Metrics from Different Perspectives: Inputs, Outputs, and Outcomes helps academic librarians go well beyond the basic guideposts of inputs and outputs to explore a wide range of metrics for measuring their effectiveness and improving performance. Based on their groundbreaking article, "Outcomes Assessment: Not Synonymous with Inputs and Outputs," Robert Dugan and Peter Hernon, along with coauthor Danuta Nitecki, give libraries the tools they need to see beyond their own walls and interpret both outcome and impact metrics from the perspective of the parent institution, the customer, and the stakeholder, as well as the library itself.
Viewing Library Metrics from Different Perspectives makes a convincing argument for targeting the right audience with the right metric. The first three chapters introduce key concepts and the relevant literature, and helps libraries make the crucial distinction between assessment and evaluation. Chapters four through nine examine the four perspectives and their attendant metrics. The final chapters discuss how best to present and interpret the results.
Robert E. Dugan is director of Sawyer Library at Suffolk University, Boston, MA.
Peter Hernon is professor at the Graduate School of Library and Information Science at Simmons College, Boston, MA.
Danuta A. Nitecki is dean of libraries and professor at College of Information Science & Technology at Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA.
