Community-oriented Outreach and Evaluation
Building Successful Partnerships
Tips on developing successful collaborations. From the
National Resource Services
Center, a training and technical assistance provider
to programs funded by the Corporation for National and
Community Service.
Center for the
Advancement of Collaborative Strategies in
Health
Resources to help partnerships, funders, and policy
makers realize the full potential of collaboration to
solve complex problems related to health or any other
area.
Public Libraries and
Community Partners: Working Together to Provide Health
Information
A guide to encourage health information partnerships
between public libraries, the National Network of
Libraries of Medicine, and local health or
community-based organizations.
Melva Thompson-Robinson, Rodney Hopson, and Saumitra
SenGupta, eds. In Search of Cultural Competence in
Evaluation: Toward Principles and Practices, In:
New Directions for Evaluation, no. 102,
Summer 2004.
This volume of New Directions for Evaluation
addresses questions about how cultural issues affect
evaluation practice, including an overview of cultural
competence and case studies in a variety of settings with
several populations. According to the editors, it offers
"an important discussion of race, culture, and diversity
in evaluation striving to shape and advance culturally
competent evaluation and, in tandem, evaluation of
culturally competent services."
New
Tribal Connections 3 ( 
173 kb)
The final report from Tribal Connections 3 (TC3), a
project to explore community-based approaches to delivery
of Regional Medical Library (RML) services to American
Indian tribes.
Hispanic Health
Information Outreach (
191 kb)
Recommendations for National Library of Medicine Strategy
and Tactics. By Marlo Maldonado Young, NLM Associate
Fellowship Program, August 2001.
Information
Behavior in Everyday Contexts (IBEC)
IBEC features the
Outcomes Toolkit 2.0, a four step process of
conducting outcome-based evaluations which contains
examples and instruments from studies conducted across
the country. Funded by a National Leadership Grant from
the Institute of
Museum and Library Services.
