Effective program evaluation involves much more than counting attendance. Use the resources below to evaluate the impact of your library programs.
- Embedding Evaluation in Libraries is a team-based training and coaching program for library staff, which includes a series of short, free training videos.
- Project Outcome is a free online toolkit designed to help public libraries understand and share the impact of programs and services.
- Shaping Outcomes is a self-guided course on impact measurement developed by IMLS. The IMLS Shaping Outcomes and Logic Model presentation offers a number of useful definitions of concepts in performance measurement.