Impact Assessment Studies of LIFE Project

Umut Al & Zehra Taşkın

{umutal, ztaskin@hacettepe.edu.tr}

Impact Assessment Studies of

LIFE Project

Plan

 General information about LIFE

 What are we doing?

 Library usage studies

 A sample for impact assessment studies

 Visibility of LIFE

 Some outputs

Libraries for Everyone (LIFE)

Development

Implementation Research

Evaluation

Sustainability

LIFE - Stakeholders

What Are We Doing?

 Collecting data

 Quantitative

 Library usage surveys

 Data Giraffe

 Qualitative

 Opinions of library staff and users

 News about Project

 Evaluating data

 Produce academic outputs

Library Usage Surveys

 The sample size was decided based on the number of registered users in the

libraries.

 The age of the survey participants should be at least 15 years of age

 The total number of respondents: 8883

Year Library Respondents Questions

2016 140 4317 32

2017 147 4566 35

Library Usage Surveys

 55% of the users’ age interval 15-20

 41% male

 5% living in rural areas

 59% student

 Awareness about the training programs at the municipal libraries => 35%

 Proportion of beneficiaries of the

trainings offered at the municipal

libraries: 8.5%

Satisfaction of Library Users

Satisfied 95%

Not satisfied

5%

Impact Assessment Studies:

An Example

Training Studies

 Trainings delivered by Project team

 Trainings delivered by library staff

 Trainings delivered by stakeholders

Activity Organizer Date

Women Entrepreneurship TSMSE&IBMEF 24.04.2017

Why Iodine Salt? HU Alumni Assoc. 27.07.2017

Risks and Safety in Social Media IAT 01.08.2017

Social Media for Libraries TLA 20.12.2017

Trainings Demanded by Users

Most Frequently-Used Trainings

Evaluation of Training Activities

Visibility of LIFE

Visibility on the Internet

Visibility on the Internet

Social and Traditional Media

Bus Stop

Usage of LIFE Academy

Outputs of the Project

Outputs

Project Timeline

Conclusion

 Municipal libraries become more visible

 Change in the approach of local administrators

 The library staff are acting as trainers

 There are places that have reached

the library with the Project

Conclusion

 Some values have already begun to improve