At any given time, many of us who are children’s librarians are experts in multi-tasking, from implementing weekly programs to adding new services that we would like to try or addressing patron requests for more. It is also easy to keep saying yes to more until you get to the point when it is time to start doing and that can very easily begin to get out of hand and eventually lead to burnout. Evaluation can help staff members get to the “why” something is important and help with our balancing act. It helps identify needs, measure outcomes, and look at a bigger picture than daily library life. It also gives you a valuable moment to pause instead of continuously adding more. Last spring, my Children’s Services team was interested in adding Tonie kits to our library collection. We had an interested staff member who wanted to research the project,…
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