# Presentation: 692016

##  Outreach Evaluation Series:Community Assessment

- National Network of Libraries of Medicine
- Outreach Evaluation Resource Center
- and the NN/LM PNR RML Rendezvous
- January 14, 21, and 28, 2009

## SESSION 3: NEXT STEPS

- January 28, 2009

## Quiz: Review from Last Week

- True or False?
- All key informants are innovators.
- Partners’ expectations of each other should be put in writing.
- The “Stages of Change” are: Action, Preparation, and Maintenance.
- You can find all the details you need about a community on the web.

## Discussion:  Your Local Community Assessment Plan

- What would be your first step?
- What are some next steps?

## Today:  Finding the Puzzle Pieces

## Methods

- Key informant interviews
- Review of existing data
- Observations
- Questionnaires
- Focus groups
- Public forums

## Data Collection

- What are your evaluation questions?

- How many?
- How much?
- What percentage?
- How often?
- What is the average
-  amount?

- What are community
- members...
- Ideas?
- Concerns?
- Beliefs?
- Opinions?
- Experiences

- Qualitative

## Selection of Methods

-  Existing textual
-   information (reports,
-   meeting minutes)
-  Observations
-  Interviews
-  Public forums
-  Focus groups

-  Existing numerical
-   information (e.g.,
-   census data)
-  Questionnaire data

- Quantitative

- Qualitative

## Which Methods to Use?

- _Data from Individuals_
- Interviews
- Observations
- Questionnaires

- _Data from Groups_
- Observations
- Focus groups
- Public forums

## Booklet 3

- http://nnlm.gov/evaluation/booklets

## Funding Is Available!

**Assessment and Planning Awards from your RML**
- Identify and learn about a potential outreach audience including demographics, information needs, and community resources or assets.
- Identify and network with community partners that might be interested in collaborating on a future outreach project.
- Up to **$2000** is available.  Applications accepted continuously.

## Funding Is Available!

**Reporting Requirements:**
- A summary of assessment process and results
- Description of next steps/implantation (if planned)
- Due within one month of project completion
**More Details:**
- _[http://nnlm.gov/pnr/funding/Assessment_and_Planning_Award.html](http://nnlm.gov/pnr/funding/Assessment_and_Planning_Award.html)_
**Online Application Form****:**

- _[http://nnlm.gov/pnr/funding/Assessment_and_Planning_Application.html](http://nnlm.gov/pnr/funding/Assessment_and_Planning_Application.html)_

## Wrap-Up

- List one thing you have learned from this workshop
-  What key thought or piece of advice will guide your future evaluation work?
- What action step will you take in the near future?
- What one question are you still pondering?

## Maryanne Blake
Outreach/Evaluation Coordinator
blakema@u.washington.edu
206-221-3405

Susan Barnes, Assistant Director 
NN/LM Outreach Evaluation Resource Center
sjbarnes@u.washington.edu
 206-221-7425

**Outreach/Evaluation Coordinator**
**blakema@u.washington.edu**
**206-221-3405**
**Susan Barnes, Assistant Director **
**NN/LM Outreach Evaluation Resource Center**
**sjbarnes@u.washington.edu**
** ****206-221-7425**

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