ILOC 2025: Save the Date and Submit a Session Idea on Statistics & Evaluations
Oct 28, 2024
ILOC 2025 is set for Thursday, January 30, 2025! Iowa library directors and staff are encouraged to mark their calendars and consider submitting an idea for a session on statistics and/or evaluations.
The 2025 theme is Assess, Adapt, Act: Making Evaluation Count. Attendees will consider why we collect statistics and evaluations and how we make them useful. Ideas for presentation topics may include:
- Using statistics to your best advantage
- Figuring out which stats matter
- Determining which data sources to use to evaluate
- Finding new ways to collect evaluations
- Using Project Outcome, or other software to gather evaluation data
- Leveraging technology for evaluation
- Engaging stakeholders in the evaluation process
- Communicating results from data collection
- Using visualization to present results
- Evaluating impact beyond usage statistics
- Showcasing how you used data and evaluations to create/modify library services or facilities
The Call for Proposals closes Monday, November 25 and can be submitted at the link below:
Registration for ILOC 2025 will open in December; watch the CE Newsletter for more information and registration link!