Performance Measurement and Metrics: Volume 13 Issue 1

Impact Planning and Assessment (IPA) of the Global Libraries Initiative (GL) of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

David Streatfield

This paper has the aim of introducing the Special Issue on Impact Planning and Assessment (IPA) of the Global Libraries Initiative (GL) of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation…

Impact Planning and Assessment of public libraries: a country level perspective

David Streatfield

This is the first of a cluster of papers which seek to describe the work of impact planning and assessment (IPA) specialists at country level within the Global Libraries…

Introduction

David Streatfield

The purpose of this paper is to introduce national reports from the Global Libraries Initiative.

Vietnam and Indonesia

Quynh Truc Phan, Prijosoesilo Tryono, Titi Rosalina

The purpose of this paper is to describe the initial steps in creating a Global Libraries Initiative program in Vietnam and Indonesia.

Bulgaria

Luba Devetakova

The purpose of this paper is to describe developments and results of the Glob@l Libraries – Bulgaria (GLB) project.

Romania

Marcel Chiranov

The purpose of this paper is to emphasize some of the qualitative results from the data collection throughout the second year of the Biblionet Program in Romania.

Poland

Maciej Kochanowicz

The purpose of this paper is to describe the current status of the Global Libraries Initiative program in Poland.

Botswana

Resego Taolo

The purpose of this paper is to describe developments and results of the Global Libraries Initiative project in Botswana, popularly known as Sesigo project, which started in 2009.

Latvia

Kristine Paberza

The purpose of this paper is to describe developments and results of the Global Libraries Initiative project in Latvia, known as the “Father's Third Son” project, which started in…

Lithuania

Ugne Lipeikaite, Renata Sadunisvili

The purpose of this paper is to describe developments and results of the Global Libraries Initiative – the “Libraries for Innovation” project – implemented by the Martynas…

Developing Impact Planning and Assessment at national level: addressing some issues

David Streatfield, Kristine Paberza, Ugne Lipeikaite, Marcel Chiranov, Luba Devetakova, Renata Sadunisvili

As more countries have joined the Global Libraries (GL) Initiative, the IPA Specialists have gradually evolved into a cohesive team that finds opportunities to meet fairly…

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