The OERC is on the Road Again

Posted by nnlmneo on September 25th, 2015 Posted in: Blog

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The OERC is on the road again.  Today, Cindy and Beth Layton, Associate Director of the NN/LM Greater Midwest Region, are team-teaching Measuring What Matters to Stakeholders at the Michigan Health Sciences Library Association’s annual conference in Flint, MI.

This workshop covers strategies for using evaluation to enhance and communicate a library’s value to organizational decision-makers and stakeholders who influence decision makers. The workshop combines updated information with material from the NN/LM MidContinental Region’s Measuring Your Impact and the OERC’s Valuing Your Library workshops that have been taught by a number of regional medical library staff members over the past decade.

On Saturday, Karen is presenting a brand-new workshop for the Texas Library Association’s District 8 Conference called Adding Meaning to Planning: A Step-by-Step Method for Involving Your Community in Meaningful Library Planning.

The workshop is a method of involving community members in creating pain-free logic models to ensure that the long term vision is always in sight when planning.  Karen wrote a blog entry about the creating “tearless” logic models here. http://nnlm.gov/evaluation/blog/2015/04/10/tearless-logic-models/  This is Karen’s first experience creating and delivering a workshop that is purely about library evaluation.

The NN/LM travel season is about to go into full swing.  We know we aren’t the only ones out and about with presentations, trainings, and exhibits.  So safe travels. And we will see you in a week with another OERC blog post.