Requesting a Class

For more information about any of these workshops, or to request a session to be held at your location or via distance technology, contact Susan Barnes.

1. Measuring Your Impact: Using Evaluation for Library Advocacy

Library users and stakeholders will recognize and value the importance of their library's services and of the librarian to the organization. That is the ultimate goal of this six-hour workshop...more information

2. The Outreach Evaluation Series

The goal of the Outreach Evaluation Workshop Series is to develop the ability of those who conduct health information outreach projects to gather and use evaluation data for program improvement and decision-making. The four workshops in the series are:

• Community Assessment (approved for 3 Medical Library Association contact hours)
  This class will help librarians and others involved in health information outreach to design quality programs and garner support for those programs by taking the right first step: collecting community and needs assessment information about the groups of people who will be involved.
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• Planning Outcomes-Based Outreach Programs (approved for 3 Medical Library Association contact hours)
  This workshop will help librarians and anyone interested in health information outreach to focus on what they want to accomplish by designing outreach programs around intended results. Participants will learn to construct logic models to plan health information outreach projects, with project outcomes as the pivotal part of the plan.
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• Answering the Right Questions: Data Collection for Health Information Outreach (approved for 4 Medical Library Association contact hours)
  In this workshop, participants will learn to apply good principles of data collection to assure that data – both qualitative and quantitative – will be useful in making project decisions.
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• Finding Information in Numbers and Words: Data Analysis for Health Information Outreach (approved for 4 Medical Library Association contact hours)
  Participants will learn basic methods for compiling and analyzing qualitative and quantitative evaluation data to maximize their usefulness in project improvement and decision-making.
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