Evaluation

I am already using all the tools discussed in this week's learning 2.1 update. I use them because it is important to understand how other people are interacting with your data. I even have the occasional look at the statistics on my Flickr account. I am not going to do anything to increase the use - but I am interested that the use is coming because of the tags I have added.

Tools like google analytics make evaluation much more fun, and much more accessible. It is great to to be able to share access to this data at an administration level, and for more people to be able to have in informed discussion about evaluation. Evaluation is not an add on - it is core business. If we do something in our library we should have worked out the evaluation as part of the planning stage. We should want to tell people how great our work is - in an informed manner.