Hello All!
I hope you had a productive summer with lots of activity in your libraries! Did you collect surveys from your summer reading/summer learning program participants? How are you analyzing those data? Have you decided what advocacy stories you will tell from the data you collected?
Need some ideas? Here are a few resources from the PLA Outcome Measurement page to help you along the way:
- Click through to the Data Analysis section to find resources to assist with qualitative and quantitative data analysis, or how to use AI to analyze survey data.
- As you're planning how to share your results, review the Framing Survey Results, Good Practices for Communicating Data, and Creating a Message Framework resources for tips to make your message more effective.
- If you collected survey responses via Google or Microsoft Forms, both provide simple visualizations you can use in reports or presentations:
- In Google Forms, you can copy the pie charts directly from the Responses page.
- With Microsoft Forms, you can take a screen capture of the bar charts on the View Responses page.
- Or download the data files and use Google Sheets or Microsoft Excel to create your own visualizations (see example below).
- Finally, if your library has a Canva account – free or subscription – there is a resource with links to Canva-designed report templates patterned after the Project Outcome reports.
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Katina Jones
PLA Program Manager, Evaluation & Assessment
American Library Association
She/Her/Hers
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