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Nelson, Mary – Illinois Libraries, 1995
Describes a library staff inservice day developed at the Oak Lawn (Illinois) Public Library to meet the needs of a staff with diverse ages, interests, and duties. Recommends offering a variety of sessions that staff may choose from, provides examples, and includes a summary of evaluation results. (LRW)
Descriptors: Evaluation Methods, Inservice Education, Library Personnel, Public Libraries
Perkins, Gay Helen – Library Administration and Management, 1995
Examines the value of upward evaluation by reviewing historical outcomes of upward evaluations in industrial psychology/business literature and library literature. Also discusses the utilization of upward evaluation in libraries and focuses on results of the Western Kentucky University Libraries' annual process of supervisor evaluation. Appendixes…
Descriptors: Evaluation Methods, Evaluation Utilization, Library Personnel, Library Research
Peterson, Lorna – 1983
A personnel appraisal tool was developed at the Iowa State University Library for professionals supervised by the Assistant Director for Technical Services and the Head of the Monographs Department, to evaluate both their supervisors' performance and the appraisal review as an educational tool to improve administrator performance. A Technical…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Administrator Evaluation, Evaluation Methods, Job Performance
Download full textStein, Joan E. – 1995
Effective management and the importance of feedback in relation to improvement are becoming critical issues for libraries. Upward appraisal evaluates managers' performance based on input from their staff, rather than the traditional top-down evaluation format in which a manager is evaluated solely by their superior. This paper discusses the…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Evaluation Methods, Feedback, Job Performance
Association of Research Libraries, Washington, DC. Office of Management Studies. – 1974
This kit contains a collection of representative documents on performance review procedures in academic and research libraries. Multiple documents from the Pennsylvania State University Libraries include a management guide to performance evaluation, a memo on performance evaluation from the librarian, and forms and instructions for use of both the…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Evaluation Methods, Higher Education, Job Performance
Dervin, Brenda; Clark, Kathleen – 1987
Developed as part of a three-year project funded by the Library Services and Construction Act (LSCA), this manual is designed to present librarians in the State of California with an alternative, "sense-making" approach to assessing the information needs of patrons and potential patrons and to assessing accountability, i.e., whether…
Descriptors: Accountability, Evaluation Methods, Interviews, Library Personnel
Association of Research Libraries, Washington, DC. Office of Management Studies. – 1974
This Systems and Procedures Exchange Center (SPEC) kit contains a collection of representative documents on performance review procedures in academic and research libraries. The kit comprises: (1) performance appraisal forms from the Stanford University Libraries; (2) a rating scale evaluation form and an essay evaluation form for professional…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Evaluation Methods, Higher Education, Job Performance
Daval, Nicola, Comp.; McConnell, Margaret, Comp. – 1988
This report presents data, describing mostly on-site institutional resources, from the 118 U.S. and Canadian research libraries that were members of the Association of Research Libraries (ARL) during the 1986-87 fiscal year. The following information is included in the document: (1) ARL library data tables reflecting data on collections,…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Data Collection, Doctoral Degrees, Enrollment
Engelbrecht, Pamela Noyes – 1988
Based on responses to a survey of Association of Research Libraries (ARL) members in March 1988, this Systems and Procedures Exchange Center (SPEC) flyer and kit are designed to assist administrators of large academic libraries in the selection of useful methods of conducting user surveys for particular library concerns. The flyer provides a brief…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Administrator Responsibility, Evaluation Methods, Higher Education
Hemmings, Richard – Information and Library Manager, 1989
Describes the design, implementation, and practice of a personnel evaluation method (performance appraisal) at the Cambridgeshire Libraries. Findings reported include staff attitudes and perceptions of the method, and the overall effectiveness of the evaluation scheme. Various theoretical models of appraisal and practical applications in…
Descriptors: Employee Attitudes, Evaluation Methods, Foreign Countries, Interviews
Littlejohn, Nancy; And Others – 1994
As part of university-wide assessment activities at Central Missouri State University, a library assessment program was implemented in 1991. A task force was formed to design an assessment plan that would develop a strategy to determine effectiveness of services; client satisfaction; barriers to improved service; and employee satisfaction within…
Descriptors: Attitudes, College Faculty, College Libraries, Evaluation Methods
Austin Community Coll., TX. – 1995
The Learning Resource Center (LRS) at Austin Community College, in Texas, has developed professional evaluation guidelines and procedures to effectively assess and evaluate LRS personnel. The evaluation plan provides general guidelines and specific evaluation procedures and is divided into three major components. The first component is related to…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Employee Responsibility, Employer Employee Relationship, Evaluation Criteria
Peer reviewedValentine, Kristin B.; Jacobsen, Janet L. – Public Libraries, 1992
Describes a public library program designed to stimulate appreciation of adult fiction written in and about the contemporary western United States. Discussion covers project objectives, oral interpretation of literature, project phases, study guides and bibliographies, staff orientation, lectures, evaluators, personnel, publicity, problems, and…
Descriptors: Audience Response, Evaluation Methods, Fiction, Grants
Canadian Health Libraries Association. – 1998
Nine Canadian health libraries participated in a pilot test of the Benchmarking Tool Kit between January and April, 1998. Although the Tool Kit was designed specifically for health libraries, the content and approach are useful to other types of libraries as well. Used to its full potential, benchmarking can provide a common measuring stick to…
Descriptors: Benchmarking, Comparative Analysis, Evaluation Criteria, Evaluation Methods
Bakke, Celia; Whitlach, Jo Bell – 1991
For this kit, 119 Association of Research Libraries (ARL) academic libraries were surveyed to determine the impact of online catalogs on the training needs of technical services staff and on the planning and organization of programs to meet these needs; responses were received from 66 libraries. Analyses of the responses indicated that the…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Educational Planning, Evaluation Methods, Higher Education
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