[ALCTS-acqnet] Follow up to Assessment in Acq question

Hello All

thanks to those of you who have responded.  So far, the assessment examples
I've gotten have been to assess the usage of resources.

Here is the backstory - I am writing a chapter on assessment in Acq.  The
book is going to have another chapter on Assessment in Electronic Resources
 So I am trying to define what Assessment in Acquisitions actually means.
I know some Acq departments do soup to nuts and others, like mine, are only
responsible for the purchase of print and some electronic (not databases).

So what should be assessed?  Workflows?  Staff output?  Is it the
responsibility of the Acq department to assess the programs it administers,
like an approval plan?  Or is that the job of the collection development
people?  I'm having a hard time trying to define what would be assessed in
an Acquisitions department.

A few years ago, I created a libguide to organize all our workflows in my
unit.  In the course of doing that, all the workflows were reviewed.  I
consider that an assessment.  We have a homegrown product that we use to
keep track of media and reserves ordering - we tweaked it and while doing
that, got everyone in the same room who had anything to do with media and
reserves and went over the path of an item - so everyone in every unit,
understood what we were all doing. I consider that an assessment.

So I am looking to see what others think assessment in an acquisitions
department might entail

Stacey

Stacey Marien
Acquisitions Librarian
American University Library
4400 Massachusetts Ave, NW
Washington, DC 20016
smarien_at_american.edu
202-885-3842
orcid.org/0000-0003-2608-4559