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Problem Lah! Learning To Tell The Story Of Continuous Assessment And Improvement, Tamera Hanken Jun 2014

Problem Lah! Learning To Tell The Story Of Continuous Assessment And Improvement, Tamera Hanken

Proceedings of the IATUL Conferences

To succeed organizations rely on the purposeful application of the management functions, planning, organizing, leading and controlling, i.e., assessment. Assessment involves the collection and analysis of service and performance data to inform planning, organizing and leading-- opening the door to a culture of assessment and continuous improvement. Like other organizations responding to ever challenging economies and ever changing customer expectations, libraries are examining continuous improvement methods such as Lean, or Six Sigma, to ensure operations and services are customer focused and can be continuously assessed and improved with limited resources. Librarians though, often lack a general understanding of assessment and …


Study On The Information Literacy Instruction Cases Of America Academic Library: A Case Of Otterbein University Library, Youhua Chen, Xinya Wang, Qiong Cao Jan 2014

Study On The Information Literacy Instruction Cases Of America Academic Library: A Case Of Otterbein University Library, Youhua Chen, Xinya Wang, Qiong Cao

Otterbein China Librarians Exchange Program Documentations and Publications

Taking the information literacy instruction of Otterbein University library, for example, combining related research materials achieved from American academic libraries, the paper introduced the cooperation model, the main contents, the teaching methods, the applications of new technologies in information literacy of American academic library, summarized the characteristics and analyzed the meanings of the information literacy of America academic libraries for Chinese academic libraries.