{"id":4297,"date":"2016-04-22T09:30:15","date_gmt":"2016-04-22T16:30:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nnlm.gov\/evaluation\/blog\/?p=4297"},"modified":"2019-09-24T10:13:29","modified_gmt":"2019-09-24T17:13:29","slug":"meet-the-new-neo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/nec\/2016\/04\/22\/meet-the-new-neo\/","title":{"rendered":"Meet the New NEO"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Cindy<\/a><\/p>\n

Head\u2019s up, readers.\u00a0 Look for a name change to our blog on May 1.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s the day the NN\/LM Outreach Evaluation Resource Center will be replaced by the new NN\/LM Evaluation Office, a.k.a. NEO. \u00a0The NEO will have the same staff (Karen Vargas and Cindy Olney) and same location (headquartered in University of Washington Health Sciences Library) as the OERC; but it has a new and evolving role in the National Network of Libraries of Medicine (NN\/LM).<\/p>\n

This time last year, Karen Vargas (evaluation specialist) and I (acting assistant director) began writing a proposal for this new NN\/LM office.\u00a0 The University of Washington Health Sciences Library submitted our proposal as part of its\u00a0larger one for a five-year cooperative agreement to fund the NN\/LM Pacific Northwest Regional Medical Library. (Spoil alert: UW HSL won the award. \u00a0See the announcement here: \u00a0https:\/\/www.nlm.nih.gov\/news\/nlm-rml-coop-agreement-2016.html<\/a>.)<\/p>\n

Our new name reflects one of a number of changes in NN\/LM\u2019s funding, organization, and management.\u00a0 Leaders of the NN\/LM are re-envisioning what it means to be a national<\/em> network<\/em> of organizations that work together to advance the progress of medicine and public health through access to health information. The NEO staff will contribute our evaluation expertise to help the leaders focus on key outcomes and measure progress and accomplishments.<\/p>\n

The vision set forth in our proposal is to influence NN\/LM\u2019s use of evaluation to engage and learn about its programs, make good decisions, and enhance the visibility of its successes. Our proposed strategies were organized around five main aims. First, we will support the NN\/LM leadership\u2019s ability to make data-driven decisions. Second, we will collaborate with the regional medical libraries to increase use of evaluation in their regions.\u00a0 Third, we will provide quality evaluation training opportunities to build evaluation skills of network members. \u00a0Our fourth aim is to increase visibility of NN\/LM\u2019s program successes.\u00a0 Lastly, we plan to provide new written materials about effective and emerging evaluation practices and trends.<\/p>\n

The exact nature of our services will be determined by the needs of the NN\/LM as we all develop new approaches to working together. We do know that the NEO\u2019s scope will expand beyond health information outreach evaluation to include other areas, such as organizational development and internal services to users and clients. We also want to put more emphasis on evaluation use, both for decision-making and advocating program value to stakeholders. As a teaser, Karen and I plan to develop our own expertise in evaluation reporting, participatory evaluation methods, and digital story-telling. (In fact, Karen’s blog post next week will describe our \u00a0recent participatory evaluation experience at the Texas Library Association 2016 meeting.)<\/p>\n

The most important news for our blog readers, though, is that our URL address will not change for the foreseeable future. So in spite of the name change that\u2019s coming, you will still find our weekly blog posts here<\/a>.\u00a0 So \u201csee\u201d you next week.<\/p>\n

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Head\u2019s up, readers.\u00a0 Look for a name change to our blog on May 1. That\u2019s the day the NN\/LM Outreach Evaluation Resource Center will be replaced by the new NN\/LM Evaluation Office, a.k.a. NEO. \u00a0The NEO will have the same staff (Karen Vargas and Cindy Olney) and same location (headquartered in University of Washington Health… Read More »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2959,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4297","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8ICUo-17j","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/nec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4297","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/nec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/nec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/nec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2959"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/nec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4297"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/nec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4297\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6568,"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/nec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4297\/revisions\/6568"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/nec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/nec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/nec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}