ILT: How do we know it is working?

There are many ways to determine if a project is working. Two "classic" ways include designing and then measuring project goals and objectives and retention of group members throughout the process as well as the establishment of group members as "converts" to the process in question.

In recent years much attention has been paid to increasing the assessment of projects for better results and increased accountability. Increased assessment typically means greater data gathering of the environment or "environmental scanning, pre-assessment of issues, audiences and environments, and attention to goals and objectives to include performance outcomes (not just counting numbers,) as well as post assessment to measure pre-project data.

Although librarians have very strong ideas about the need for the existence of as well as levels of information literacy in communities, part of a community partnerships initiative assessment process would be:

General environmental scanning for partnerships, other community partnerships that might involve libraries, possible partners

Assessing the environment for information literacy background

Determining success and factors in success of past and present, local ventures

As the Information Literacy Community Partnerships Initiative progresses, all documents for local partnerships will be linked as The Information Literacy IQ Test and the Information Power excerpt are above.

Additional links will include:

Indicators of impact of community partnership