Welcome to Library Evaluation 101! This series, which will be added to over the three-year Embedding Evaluation grant, contains short videos about foundational evaluation concepts.
Video 1: Protecting Evaluation Participants’ Rights
Resources mentioned in this video:
CITI Program Research Ethics & Compliance Training
Video 2: Patron Privacy
Resources mentioned in this video:
ALA Library Privacy Guidelines
ALA Library Privacy Checklists
Video 3: Informed Consent
Resources mentioned in this video:
MEERA (My Environmental Education Resource Assistant)
CITI Program Research Ethics & Compliance Training
Video 4: Choosing Methods for Your Evaluation
Video 5: Writing Survey Items
Resources mentioned in this video:
Questionnaire Design – Pew Research Center
Writing Survey Questions – Grand Canyon University Center for Innovation in Research and Teaching
Survey Research Methods (Fowler)
Internet, Phone, Mail, and Mixed-Mode Surveys: The Tailored Design Method (Dillman et al.)
Video 6: Designing and Administering Surveys
Resources mentioned in this video:
Questionnaire Design – Pew Research Center
Internet, Phone, Mail, and Mixed-Mode Surveys: The Tailored Design Method (Dillman et al.)
Video 7: Focus Groups
Resources mentioned in this video:
Focus Group Quick Tips – University of Wisconsin Extension
Focus Groups: A Practical Guide for Applied Research (Krueger and Casey)
Video 8: Interviews
Resource mentioned in this video:
Qualitative Interviewing: The Art of Hearing Data (Rubin and Rubin)
Video 9: Observations
Resources mentioned in this video:
Data Collection Methods for Program Evaluation: Observation
How to Plan and Conduct Direct Observation
Video 10: Preparing for Data Analysis
Video 11: Analysis of Open-Ended Comments
Resource mentioned in this video:
Project Outcome guide to analyzing qualitative data and downloadable worksheet (you need an account to access this resource – accounts are freely available to public library staff)
Video 12: Qualitative Data Analysis
Resources mentioned in this video:
Qualitative Data Analysis : A Methods Sourcebook (Miles, Huberman, and Saldaña)
The Coding Manual for Qualitative Researchers (Saldaña)
Video 13: Categorical Data Analysis
Resources mentioned in this video:
SurveyMonkey – Calculating Measures of Central Tendency
SurveyMonkey – Calculating Crosstabs
SurveyGizmo – Calculating Measures of Central Tendency
SurveyGizmo – Calculating Crosstabs
Ann Emery’s Excel Tutorials:
Setting up a data file in Excel
Creating a summary table of frequencies
Video 14: Numerical Data Analysis
Resources mentioned in this video:
SurveyMonkey – Calculating Measures of Central Tendency
SurveyGizmo – Calculating Measures of Central Tendency
Ann Emery’s Excel Tutorials:
Setting up a data file in Excel
Video 15: Using Results to Answer Evaluation Questions
Video 16: Data Visualization
Examples shared in this video:
Quotable Facts About Colorado Libraries
Cleveland Public Library Style Guide
Colorado School Library Staffing Infographic
Resources mentioned in this video:
Depict Data Studio (Ann Emery’s website)
Evergreen Data (Stephanie Evergreen’s website)
Video 17: What is Evaluation?
Video 18: Cause and Effect