Evaluation and Assessment of Collection

It can help determine whether your collection is meeting the outcomes that you wish to achieve, such as improving the weak portions of the collection and enriching the strong. 

• Evaluation

• Assessment

Evaluation can help you see the collection as a whole rather than piece by piece.

• TRUE

• FALSE

• MAYBE

The following are the question for the methods of evaluation which of the following is not included?

• What questions do you want to be answered by your evaluation?

• When will you start your evaluation?

• What data do you need?

• How much time and resources do you wish to commit to the evaluation process?

The following are the approaches of Evaluation, except?

• Continuous Review

• Weeding

• Evaluation

• Assessment

This Evaluation measures could include an examination of the size and growth over time of the collection and its various sections, expenditures for library holdings over time, unfilled requests for materials or information, circulation data, and interlibrary loan data

• Qualitative Measures

• Quantitative Measures

These could include using standard lists, such as awards and "best books" lists developed by various divisions of the American Library Association and other organizations.

• Qualitative Measures

• Quantitative Measures

Identify: Interlibrary Loan Statistics

• Collection Based

• Use or User Based

Identify: Citation Analysis

• Collection Based

• Use or User Based

This approach involves looking at the number of times that particular items have been checked out within a given period

• Citation Analysis

• Network Usage Analysis

• Circulation and Interlibrary Loan Statistics

• Vendor-Supplied Statistics

It examines or describes collections either in their own terms or relative to other collections and checklists. 

• Evaluation

• Assessment