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Feb
27
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The American Evaluation Association (AEA) just concluded a week-long blog theme about qualitative evaluation, which we’ve summarized below for your reference and to consider as part of your own assessment efforts: The Role of Context – the authors of this entry previously shared five high quality elements of qualitative evaluation, and this entry referenced them… Read More »
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Feb
20
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http://publiclibrariesonline.org/2015/01/library-services-for-the-new-normal-of-miltary-families/ This week the OERC would like to highlight a community assessment that led to a public library’s outreach to the military community of Cumberland County, North Carolina. This project is described in “Library Services for the ‘New Normal’ of Military Families” by Jennifer Taft and Cynthia Olney, which appears in the November/December issue of… Read More »
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Feb
13
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The OERC welcomes evaluation specialist Karen Vargas, MSLS, who joined the staff on February 2. Karen will create and present training sessions on various evaluation topics, contribute regularly to the OERC blog and LibGuide, and provide one-to-one evaluation assistance to the National Network of Libraries of Medicine. Although Karen is new to the OERC staff,… Read More »
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Feb
06
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Here at the Outreach Evaluation Resource Center (OERC) we began 2015 blogging about the CDC Coffee Breaks. For February we’re offering a refill by featuring some notes from a recent American Evaluation Association (AEA) coffee break webcast. Unlike the CDC, the 20 minute AEA coffee break webcasts are not freely available to the public but… Read More »
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Jan
30
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BetterEvaluation.org is an international collaboration that encourages sharing of evaluation methods, approaches and processes for improvement. BetterEvaluation offers yearly blog themes for their staff and guest writers to focus on, and have wrapped up the highlights of their ’52 Weeks of BetterEvaluation’ 2014 theme in a post at http://betterevaluation.org/node/4682 For 2015 they are featuring ’12… Read More »
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