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Oct
16
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I love to talk about evaluation strategies that can make our organizational successes more visible. So I was thrilled for the opportunity to team-teach a continuing education workshop with Beth Layton, Associate Director of the NN/LM Greater Midwest Region, at the annual Michigan Health Sciences Libraries Association (MHSLA) meeting. We taught Measuring What Matters to… Read More »
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Oct
09
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Ah, the annual report – at its best we expect to see a glossy booklet with pie charts, short paragraphs and some quotes. At its worst it can be pages of dry text. Our main hope with annual reports is that our stakeholders and others will read them and be impressed with the successes of… Read More »
Posted in: Data Visualization
Oct
02
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Photovoice is an evaluation method for the times. This method engages program stakeholders (learners; service recipients; community members) in taking photographs and using them as springboards to express their experiences and points of view. With the prevalence of cameras in mobile devices, along with social media forums, most of us already are engaging in the… Read More »
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Sep
25
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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… Read More »
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Sep
18
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Last week, I reviewed Tim David’s article “Your Elevator Pitch Needs an Elevator Pitch.” This week, Karen Vargas (my co-blogger) and I decided to challenge ourselves and write an elevator pitch for the Outreach Evaluation Resource Center (aka OERC). So this week’s post is our example of how to implement David’s approach. The Set Up… Read More »
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