Tellin'Our Story-Or Not: Assessment Results on Academic Library Web Sites

摘要

If a tree falls in the forest, unwitnessed, does it make a noise? If academic libraries perform well, improve, develop and implement new services, does anyone notice, besides the students, faculty and researchers who use those specific services? This brief review focuses on connecting stakeholders, library advocacy and library assessment. The term "assessment results" is used rather broadly here. Assessment usually means an institution is reviewing its performance with an eye toward benchmarking performance and making improvements. "Assessment results" is meant to convey that the results of this self-examination and the subsequent improvements in library performance are included in the information given about the library on its web site.