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Academic Library System

Notes individuals and groups to explore their respective and common futures, and create synergy
through sharing of knowledge and experience. Local-global networking will become a means
of making globalization to suit local conditions, as knowledge and information sharing will
make globalization desirable through universalism, a new form of understanding that results
from shared values engendered by constant exchange of experience.

Self Assessment

Multiple choice questions:
1. The first colleges in the ...... were intended to train members of the clergy.
(a) United Kingdom (b) United States
(c) United Nation (d) Japan
2. The effective management of change is fundamental to a ...... and productive organization.

(a) successful (b) unsuccessful
(c) complete (d) incomplete
3. The ...... and research role of libraries can not be over-emphasized.
(a) development (b) institutional

(c) educational (d) none of these
4. Many ...... benefits from library services accrue to individuals.
(a) direct (b) indirect
(c) extra (d) none of these

12.3 Evaluation and Effectiveness

Evaluation is systematic determination of merit, worth, and significance of something or someone
using criteria against a set of standards.
Evaluation often is used to characterize and appraise subjects of interest in a wide range of
human enterprises, including the arts, criminal justice, foundations and non-profit organizations,
government, health care, and other human services.

Definition

Evaluation is the comparison of actual impacts against strategic plans. It looks at original
objectives, at what was accomplished and how it was accomplished. It can be formative that
is taking place during the life of a project or organisation, with the intention of improving the
strategy or way of functioning of the project or organisation. It can also be summative, drawing
lessons from a completed project or an organisation that is no longer functioning.

Did u know? Evaluation is inherently a theoretically informed approach (whether explicitly
or not), and consequently a definition of evaluation would have be tailored
to the theory, approach, needs, purpose and methodology of the evaluation
itself.

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