Monitoring and evaluation of e-resource use

MEERU is a 3-day practical and participatory workshop for library and information professionals involved with the management and provision of electronic information services in academic and research organisations.

Objectives

The purpose of the workshop is to bring together library staff with responsibility for the provision of electronic information services in order to:

  • demonstrate and discuss how to access usage data for electronic resources
  • introduce participants to Evidence Base's eVALUEd toolkit
  • assist participants to process and interpret quantitative and qualitative data
  • discuss how quantitative and qualitative data can be used by individual institutions and by a library consortium      

Outline

The workshop covers the collection and use of quantitative and qualitative data, using information available from INASP, publishers, and participants' own data collection. It includes:

  • reasons for evaluating
  • distinction between monitoring and evaluating
  • identification of stakeholders
  • identification of sources
  • data collection methods - for quantitative and qualitative data
  • management and analysis of data - by institutions and consortia
  • presenting and using findings - by institutions and consortia
  • planning an evaluation project

The workshop includes practical work, using the eVALUEd toolkit to begin a specific project.

Materials

Materials for the participants' handbooks are available in English and Vietnamese. These were last updated in August 2009, with the addition of new material for library consortia.

The materials include: guidance documents for the workshop administrator; a Participants Handbook containing presentation slides, participant handouts and exercises; notes and guidance for the workshop facilitator(s). All materials are in a mixture of MS Word, MS PowerPoint, MS Access and PDF formats. The files have been compressed to aid quick download. You will need WinZip or similar compression software to uncompress these files. The one Access database is for demonstration by the facilitator. This is .mdb format and may cause a warning message to appear when you unzip or download it.

The workshop materials are available in English and Vietnamese as follows:

       English - Complete materials [Document 2.5Mb]

       Vietnamese - complete materials (Document 1.9Mb)

Once you have downloaded the materials and unzipped them, please FIRST print and read the file "Printing the Participants Handbook" for printing instructions. This file is in the Administration folder.

You will also need to access Evidence Base's eVALUEd toolkit during the workshop. The toolkit can be accessed online.  Alternatively contact INASP for a master copy of the toolkit on CD. A print ready copy of the eVALUEd booklet (Document 275kb) is available for download.

If you have any questions or comments about these INASP training materials please feel free to contact us via email.