Library Assessment

1. Assess what’s strategic:

• Focus on institutional strategic priorities, including teaching and learning, student support, research enterprise, faculty and researcher support, and innovation

2. Be selective:

• Focus on what is achievable: Do we have the needed resources and expertise?
• Focus on strategic importance: What do we need to know in order to succeed?
• Focus on what is actionable: What can we start now?

3. Be realistic:

• If you don’t need to know, don’t ask
• Make evaluation part of your work
• Consult the literature to see what's already there
• Seek to start

Credit: "Building a Successful & Strategic Assessment Program" presentation by Steve Hiller, Martha Kyrillidou, Raynna Bowlby, ARL Assessment Seminar, November 2014