Values-Sensitive Library Assessment Toolkit

A decision aid for ethical assessment practice

The positionality card from the toolkit.

Project Description

The Values-Sensitive Library Assessment Toolkit serves to model a value system for library assessment practice, with the goal of helping practitioners identify and apply the values that are important for their assessment practice. The toolkit takes the form of a card deck, presenting 10 values along with 3 activities for working with the values.

Collaborators

This toolkit is derived from extensive survey-based and interview-based research involving members of the library assessment community. I wish to thank those practitioners for sharing their time and energy with me.The toolkit also builds on prior prototypes that I’ve co-developed with other collaborators listed in the projects below.

Timeline

2019–2022

Resources

For more on the process that went into the research and design of the toolkit, view the presentation at the 2022 Library Assessment Conference. For an even more in-depth discussion, check out the book: Knowing our Value and our Values Toward An Ethical Practice of Library Assessment, published by Library Juice Press in 2024.

Project Page

The toolkit is hosted on the Open Science Framework, available at the following address: doi.org/10.17605/OSF.IO/ZS5C8.