Advocacy Is Not Enough - Using Evidence-Based Outcome Measures to Demonstrate Library Impact
ASCLA President’s Program at 2005 Annual Conference As funders, administrators, government officials, and the general public increasingly pressure libraries for evidence of the impact they are making with scarce dollars, libraries of all types must focus on the evaluation techniques that will help them answer the question, So what? A panel of national experts provided an overview of outcomes-based planning and evaluation and share specific examples from practice. The information for this presentation can be found at this Web site.Speakers: Peggy D. Rudd, ASCLA President, Director and Librarian, Texas State Library and Archives Commission; Amy Louttit Johnson, Library Program Specialist, Bureau of Library Development, State Library of Florida; Christine McNew, Youth Services Consultant, Library Development Division, Texas State Library and Archives Commission.