Museums, libraries and archives - learning - Improving performance. YOU ARE HERE: home > improving performance People, Places, Partnerships, Policies A self-assessment planning framework that helps you review and improve your performance in each key area. It can be used to improve your whole organisation or a single prgramme or activitiy. Start with the the quick checklist (pdf, 34kb) to help you identify priority areas for further action Follow by selecting the more detailed checklist from the right hand menu Click on each circle in turn to find out more People Providing effective learning opportunities Engage and consult with a broad range of people to develop learning opportunities Provide opportunities for people to learn Broaden the range of learning opportunities to engage with new and diverse users Stimulate discovery and research Evaluate learning outcomes of services, programmes and activities Partnerships Building creative learning partnerships Places Creating inspiring and accessible learning environments Policies, Plans, Performance.
Download. What is Theory of Change? | Theory of Change Community. Image credit: Sidney Harris Theory of Change is essentially a comprehensive description and illustration of how and why a desired change is expected to happen in a particular context. It is focused in particular on mapping out or “filling in” what has been described as the “missing middle” between what a program or change initiative does (its activities or interventions) and how these lead to desired goals being achieved.
It does this by first identifying the desired long-term goals and then works back from these to identify all the conditions (outcomes) that must be in place (and how these related to one another causally) for the goals to occur. These are all mapped out in an Outcomes Framework. The Outcomes Framework then provides the basis for identifying what type of activity or intervention will lead to the outcomes identified as preconditions for achieving the long-term goal.
New Library World | Excellence in libraries: a systematic and integrated appr... SLIC - Public Library Quality Improvement Matrix. LQAF_Version_2.2_April_2012_90e8f.pdf. Research | Carol Tenopir. Quantifying_and_valuing_the_wellbeing_impacts_of_sport_and_culture. Gates Foundation Arrangement – Gates Foundation OA articles 2013. > Gates Foundation Arrangement - Gates Foundation OA articles 2013 Free Access to Special Issue on the Gates Foundation initiatives and other related content For a publisher linking research and practice to the benefit of society, the informal arrangement that Emerald set up with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation in 2011 constitutes a milestone. Under this arrangement, Emerald publishes the findings of initiatives led by the Foundation and makes them freely accessible nine months post official publication in order to further the dissemination of this research.
We are delighted to announce that Vol. 13, Issue 1 of Performance Measurement and Metrics, published under this initiative, is now freely available. This Special Issue is dedicated to Planning and Assessment of the Global Libraries Initiatives of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Guest Editor, David Streatfield, Information Management Associates, and Global Libraries Consultant at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, comments: