[Skip to Content]
Visit us on Facebook Visit us on FacebookVisit us on Twitter Visit us on TwitterVisit our RSS Feed View our RSS Feed
NEC Spotlight November 24th, 2024
CategoriesCategoriesCategories Contact UsContact Us ArchivesArchives Region/OfficeNEC Main Site SearchSearch

Posts by author:

You are viewing the post list, filtered by author. Select a post below for the full content.


Oct

16

Date prong graphic

OERC Travels: The Michigan Health Sciences Libraries Association

Posted by on October 16th, 2015 0 comments

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 »

Posted in: Blog

Oct

09

Date prong graphic

Creative Annual Reports

Posted by on October 9th, 2015 0 comments

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

Date prong graphic

DYI: Two Great Photovoice Guides

Posted by on October 2nd, 2015 0 comments

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 »

Posted in: Blog

Sep

25

Date prong graphic

The OERC is on the Road Again

Posted by on September 25th, 2015 0 comments

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 »

Posted in: Blog

Sep

18

Date prong graphic

Elevator Conversations Pt. 2: The OERC Pitch

Posted by on September 18th, 2015 0 comments

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 »

Posted in: Blog

This project is funded by the National Library of Medicine (NLM), National Institutes of Health (NIH) under cooperative agreement number UG4LM012343 with the University of Washington.

NNLM and NETWORK OF THE NATIONAL LIBRARY OF MEDICINE are service marks of the US Department of Health and Human Services | Copyright | HHS Vulnerability Disclosure | Download PDF Reader