It’s Friday and time to ask a Friday question.

There has been a lot of talk about evidence based outcomes in trying to determine the impact and value of libraries.

In Midlothian, as you do, we collect all the numbers but this really doesn’t demonstrate impact.

 

Does anyone have anything relating to qualitative performance they can share. I am particularly but not exclusively interested in the logic model. I’ve started looking at what impact all the children’s activities have but there is so much I’ll end up writing a book! I’ve also looked at Tesco’s steering wheel and am trying to use that in a library context.

 

I’m interested in:

·         what research has been undertaken to demonstrate the impact of services – to a certain extent this is fairly straight forward – Book start rhymetimes or as we call it in Scotland Bookbug, Books on Prescription (Healthy Reading Midlothian) etc

·         what evidence we need to collect locally to demonstrate impact.

 

All answers gratefully received.

 

Best wishes

 

Philip Wark

Library Services Manager

 

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