Contexts for Assessment and Outcome Evaluation in Librarianship - 9781781900604

Emerald Publishing Limited

Contexts for Assessment and Outcome Evaluation in LibrarianshipAuthor(s): Anne Woodsworth, W. David Penniman, Anne Woodsworth\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Emerald Publishing Limited, United Kingdom\nImprint: Emerald Group Publishing Limited\nISBN-13: 9781781900604, 978-1781900604\nSynopsis\nAssessment and outcomes evaluation have become increasingly important in librarianship. Although initially used in educational contexts to measure student learning, the strategy has migrated to other contexts such as hiring, employee development, overall organizational and institutional successes, measuring the outcomes of projects and operational changes, and self assessment at the personal level. This growing emphasis is partly due to increasingly stringent requirements that funds are used effectively to improve services and operations. The current economic climate and retrenchments in non-profit agencies, have raised the need for assessment and outcomes evaluation to a critical level. 'Context.