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Library Services: Gathering Evidence to Demonstrate their Impact and ValueMashspa 2010:
Gathering Evidence to Demonstrate Library Services' Impact and Value
Brian Kelly & Nicola McNee
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Context
But:
Lightweight developments could make demonstration of impact easier
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What Is To Be Done?
Need for:
Or:
Identification of ways in which impact and value can be measured
Implementation of tools & approaches for:
Gathering and collating relevant data
Analysis of data
Interpretation of finding
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How Is It To Be Done?
Quickly!
fourteen hours to save the Earth!”
“Libraries, I love you! But we have
only sixty minutes to identify ways
in which our services can be saved and make recommendations to others!”
OK, two hours if you want to start
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Impervious to emotive pleas (whistle alert!)
Vulnerable to facts and hard evidence
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Low-Hanging Fruit
Easily gathered evidence
Evidence which can be easily analysed
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Gathering The Fruit
Tools which can be used?
Options and services which need to be configured?
Policies which need to be developed and implemented?
Barriers which need to be addressed?
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Hard to gather, but very tasty fruit
How should such fruit be gathered?
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Eating The Fruit
Who should do the work?
How can the work be funded?
How can the outputs be used?
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Avoiding Indigestion
used and validated:
Avoiding over-egging the
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Group Exercise (1)
Identify ways in which (a) specific library services; (b) individual libraries or (c) library sector can be saved by providing evidence to defeat Ming’s coalition forces
Address:
Gathering the fruit: evidence & data you’ll need
Eating the fruit: how you (or techies) will analyse the data and use it
Avoiding indigestion: how you’ll address barriers
Note provide suggestions in three areas:
Simple achievable approach you can use
Big wins which will require collective effort
Existing solutions which you can share
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Group Exercise (2)
Who is:
Hardcore techie
Script junkie (e.g. can play with Yahoo Pipes; design Excel spreadsheets; …)
Non-techie
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Example 1: Blog
Monitor trends to identify successful engagement strategies
Share experiences with peers
Note:
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Example 2: Facebook
How to use:
Responding to THE article on survey of 6th formers
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Example 3: Wikipedia
Update to Wikipedia entry on HTTP 303 code made by Andy Powell:
20 minutes of effort
How to use:
UK HE experts are supporting the ‘Big society’ by ensuring their expertise is available in well-used Web sites
UK HE is avoiding setting up less-well-used alternatives
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Example 4: Slideshare
Metrics available (cf Steve Wheeler, Carol Goble, …)
How to use:
UK academics are making slides which support teaching, training & dissemination freely available
The xxx dept had yy,yyy downloads
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Example 5: Twitter
Exploiting Twitter:
The #cilip1 campaign (“Worried about the future for librarians? Join the #CILIP1 Twitter campaign – it’s taking off :-) http://bit.ly/dt6w4P”)
Analysis and use of #cilip (see Summarizr )
Professional developments through participation in amplified events
How to use:
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Conclusions
Open data can be valuable
Collaboration can be valuable
Questions
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