Best of Core Forum: Translating Mission Statements into Metrics

Description: Useful metrics must balance alignment, objectivity, measurability, and ease of communication. Mission, vision, and values statements can help anchor and direct a library, but their high degree of abstraction makes them difficult to measure, making it hard to set institutional goals and communicate successes. However, identifying the priorities that align with these statements allows you to choose metrics that effectively and efficiently measure performance.

This webinar was previously presented in-person as a session at the 2023 Core Forum. We are hosting this webinar, with the session adapted and presented live as a virtual event, to extend its reach.

Learning Outcomes: 

At the end of this webinar, attendees will be able to:

• Create aligned objectives when given a set of mission, vision, and values statements;
• Create metrics that accurately measure relevant outcomes when given a set of objectives; and
• Identify potential weaknesses in a set of suggested metrics.

Who Should Attend: Library management and administrators involved in setting priorities and measuring efficacy and success.

Presenter: 

Dallin Witt is the data coordinator for Salt Lake City Public Library. He started working with SLCPL after a career in educational and business analytics. His work has focused on effective goal-setting, and monitoring and evaluation.

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