Outcomes-Based Evaluations in School Libraries: Developing an OBE Tool for Elementary School Libraries

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  • March 18, 2020
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  • Duffus, Rachel
    • School of Information and Library Science
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  • In today’s library culture, outcomes-based evaluations (OBE) are becoming the gold standard for program design and evaluation. Organizations like American Library Association (ALA) are promoting the benefits and increased use of OBE’s in libraries, but the usage rate has been slow to grow. As well, research is limited in this area, based mainly in academic libraries and occasionally in public library settings, but not in school libraries. For this project, I developed an OBE tool for Frank Porter Graham Bilingüe, an elementary school library in Chapel Hill, NC. This tool will be used initially at their quarterly Media Night programs but will also have the ability to be modified for use with other programs. The tool was piloted at their December Media Night, the data was analyzed and presented to the librarian and technology administrator, and the tool was modified based on stakeholder feedback and my own feedback. This project has the purpose of developing a usable tool that does not require a great deal of time to use, decreasing the barriers to using OBE in this school library setting. The results of this project and the model tool will also contribute to the limited research in the school library field.
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  • Rawson, Dr. Casey
    • School of Information and Library Science
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  • Master of Science in Library Science
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