Assessment Strategies in Technical Services

by Kimberley A. Edwards (Editor), Michelle Leonard (Editor)

Are you spending money wisely? If you're a technical services manager at an academic library, an administrator, or a dean, you’re tasked with proving it. Incorporate assessment and analysis work into your library’s existing workflow with the guidance of this new collection from the Association of Library Collections and Technical Services (ALCTS). Contributors from several academic libraries draw from real-world practices to suggest new approaches for acquisition and collections, cataloging and metadata, digital preservation, and e-resources and serials. You’ll find advice on such topics as Exploring your options for assessment will lead you to the right balance of traditional and new metrics, and this book provides a valuable overview.

Genres: Nonfiction

272 pages, Paperback

Published May 9, 2019

Reviews

[Bill Sleeman · Rating 4 out of 5]

A good introduction to assessment in TS. It seems like there is never enough time to actually count/evaluate what we are doing - just keeping ahead of the impending wave - but it was helpful to be reminded that there are a number of easy, short-cut methods to assess work and still create data that can help set goals. The authors of the various chapters set out valuable options to consider when trying to start an assessment effort. Overall a helpful work.

[Lesley Looper · Rating 4 out of 5]

I enjoyed this book while working from home during the COVID-19 pandemic. It gave me some things to consider as our library heads toward a new ILS (FOLIO). I wonder how the new ILS will be able to help us with stats for assessment.