Research, evaluation and audit : key steps in demonstrating your value / edited by Maria J. Grant, Barbara Sen and Hannah Spring.
This step-by-step guide provides encouragement, support and direction for librarians who may be new to research and evaluation, or lacking in confidence or expertise. With a focus on practice based research, evaluation, and small projects it guides the reader through the research process from starti...
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Facet Publishing,
2013.
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Table of Contents:
- Foreword / Hazel Hall
- Preface / Maria J. Grant
- Part 1: Getting started
- 1. What are research, evaluation and audit? / Barbara Sen, Maria J. Grant and Hannah Spring
- 2. Building confidence / Hannah Spring and Clare McCluskey
- 3. Asking the right question / Sarah Coulbeck and Emma Hadfield
- 4. Writing your project plan / Miggie Pickton
- 5. Ethics and best practice / Elizabeth Buchanan and Stuart Ferguson
- Part 2: Doing research, evaulation and audit
- 6. Reviewing the literature / Michelle Maden
- 7. Qualitative approaches / Alison J. Pickard
- 8. Quantitative approaches / Christine Urquhart
- 9. Data analysis / Jenny Craven and Jillian R. Griffiths
- 10. Tools to facilitate your project / Maria J. Grant
- Part 3: Impact of research, evaluation and audit
- 11. Writing up your project findings / Graham Walton and Maria J. Grant
- 12. Disseminating your project findings / Jane Shelling
- 13. What next? Applying your findings to practice / Robert Gent and Andrew Cox
- Closing remarks / Maria J. Grant, Barbara Sen and Hannah Spring.