SLQ Wiki engagement:one_last_apocalypse:evaluation

Data captured via pre and post

anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) — Sun, 17 Jun 2018 00:03:07 +0000

Data captured via pre and post

Pre:

27 people signed up online.

Community Development

4 % of sign ups feel very connected to the edge community

19% have no feeling of connection at all

65% it will be the first time they come to the edge

Post:

9 people attended (2 english as a second language, 5 women, 4 men)

Community Development

Do you feel connected to The Edge community?

33% feel very much connected to the edge community

33% somewhat

33% not sure

Cultural participation

Did you feel engaged by the bookclub?

83% felt very engaged

Community Development

Did you have a conversation with someone new?

50% very much had new conversation

Accessing Resources

66% very much felt the book club was inclusive

Idea building

50% had new ideas

Graphic novel

anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) — Sun, 17 Jun 2018 00:03:07 +0000

Graphic novel

5 in attendance (plus 1 facilitator and 1 coordinator)

3 were at the first book club

2 women 3 men

4 had read the book especially for the book club and had their own copies.

Maria- drives from the Gold Coast to attend

Tom a PHD student drove from Maleny

Documenting our Conversations

anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) — Sun, 17 Jun 2018 00:03:07 +0000

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Documenting our Conversations

The following areas are what Mick, Kelisha and I discussed as being the most important to address when doing evaluation on OLA as well as across the Edge. They come directly from the 'The impact of libraries as creative spaces' from the Impact framework.

There are 8 points in the framework (You can see the links section to find them all) and we have decided that we will address 4 at this stage. We as a group decided that we would focus on these four as they are presently the four that The Edge focuses on the most. We also have chosen to go with these points as it is working within the language that Library is embracing. Aligning how we evaluate with the broader organisation.

The points are:

* ACCESSING RESOURCES

* IDEA BUILDING

*COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT

*CULTURAL PARTICIPATION

We then unpacked the skills that we see participants gaining through the OLA process. There are:

* Ownership

* Critical literacy

* Design thinking and making

* Event planning

We also talked about how important it is that we frame our intentions to our clients about why we are asking them questions. We would be transparent in that we want to know what they actually want the library to be like. Also, to make sure that there is a sense of bottom up community actually happening like the edge wants it to be.

Currently the process has been across three platforms - Eventbrite (sign up info), EBMS (data to see repeat users) and survey monkey (gathering feedback on workshop experience)

Due to the nature of how The Edge is currently capturing data we are not able to see how we are being effective through actual data. Today we talked about potentially doing away with Survey Monkey and focussing on creating very specific targeted questions (based on the 4 framework questions) that would be asked on Eventbrite during sign up (pre) and after the workshop (post). Then we are capturing real data that then can be merged with EBMS and an excel pivot table could be made from both sets of data. Therefore we will be capturing data from doing a workshop and then see if there is the next step to accessing resources. This is the aim. Please see the Evaluation forms section to see the forms.

I also spoke with Peter (The science catalyst) who mentioned that he does a number of engagements where he is emailed asking for resources and he emails a whole bunch of specialised information to them (information that would be otherwise accessed via the wiki). This needs to be captured as data as well. How can we do this?

Book Club Pre Questions on Eventbrite sign up

anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) — Thu, 13 May 2021 09:27:31 +0000

Book Club Pre Questions on Eventbrite sign up

(Pre Meeting Questions)

YOUR INFORMATION

Name

Email

Postcode

OTHER INFORMATION

We respect your privacy. Personal information we collect is used only for our internal activities and functions (Libraries Act 1988) and will not be disclosed to third parties unless required by law (www.slq.qld.gov.au/home/privacy)

- I have read and understand SLQ's privacy statement

Hi! Thanks for registering for The Edge Book Club. So we can offer programs that you truly want, we would love to know a bit more about you and your thoughts. There’s no requirement to answer these questions, but we would appreciate it if you would.

How long have you been coming to The Edge?

First Time 1-6mths 7-12mths Over 12mths

What interests you about attending the bookclub?

I am interested in Apocalypse/ I am an expert/ I like bookclubs/My friend is coming/I want to meet new people/I’m bored/Other, please specify

How connected do you feel to The Edge community?

Not at all Probably not Not sure somewhat yes very much so

Thank you!

Post form

anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) — Sun, 17 Jun 2018 00:03:07 +0000

Post form

POST EXAMPLE QUESTIONS:

Hi! Thank you for being a part of The Edge, State Library of Queensland Book Club series 2017. We really hope you enjoyed the experience and would appreciate if you could take a few minutes to answer these questions. So we can offer programs that you truly want, we would love to know a bit more about you and your thoughts. There’s no requirement to answer these questions, but we would appreciate it if you would.

- I have read and understand SLQ's privacy statement

ABOUT YOU

How long have you been coming to The Edge?

First Time 1-6mths 7-12mths Over 12mths

Why did you attend the bookclub?

I am interested in Apocalypse/ I am an expert/ I like bookclubs/My friend is coming/I want to meet new people/I’m bored/Other, please specify

How connected do you feel to The Edge community?

Not at all Probably not Not sure somewhat yes very much so

Did you feel engaged by the bookclub?

Not at all Probably not Not sure somewhat yes very much so

Did you have a conversation with someone new?

Not at all Probably not Not sure somewhat yes very much so

Did the bookclub feel inclusive?

Not at all Probably not Not sure somewhat yes very much so

Did you have any new ideas while at the book club?

Not at all Probably not Not sure somewhat yes very much so

Any other comments?

Planning Template

anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) — Sun, 17 Jun 2018 00:03:07 +0000

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Planning Template

USING THE FRAMEWORK

http://www.plconnect.slq.qld.gov.au/manage/research/libraries-as-creative-spaces

We also discussed

https://culturecounts.cc/r/arts-qld/2015/#31

https://culturecounts.cc/r/jwc/#12

Logistics conversation

anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) — Sun, 17 Jun 2018 00:03:07 +0000

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Logistics conversation

What The Edge is currently doing:

Eventbrite / EBMS / Survey Monkey

- Eventbrite is sign up to a workshop and gathering personal details

- EBMS is booking the edge and using other resources

- Survey Monkey is follow up on participation in workshops and is anonymous.

80% of the programming done at The Edge is around workshops in the dml- coming in and learning a skill.

Participants are not necessarily coming as they already feel or want to feel a part of a community. However, they are accessing resources, building ideas (2 of the 4 that the edge is targeting)

Can OLA be a program that trials a new way?

Should we therefore trial a new way? Asking the questions we want (give choice for anonymity) pre and post both done through eventbrite? Find a way to then manually enter them after this.

Then we can reassess at the end of the process. For a way to move forward.

This would mean:

Eventbrite / EBMS

Then manually adding all the information somewhere

Matching questions to framework

anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) — Sun, 17 Jun 2018 00:03:07 +0000

Matching questions to framework

Accessing Resources

Did the bookclub feel inclusive to you?

Idea building

Did you have any new ideas while at the book club?

Were you challenged to think in new ways during the book club?

Community Development

Do you feel connected to The Edge community?

Did you have a conversation with someone new?

Cultural participation

Did you feel engaged by the bookclub?

how we are capturing data on OLA

anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) — Sun, 17 Jun 2018 00:03:07 +0000

how we are capturing data on OLA

Onsite

1. Pre questions captured on sign up on Eventbrite

2. Post questions captured in person on devices or via a follow up from Eventbrite with survey monkey link (give people the choice)

3. Capture numbers at each session

4. Have Eventbrite app on a device to capture walk ins

Can this be translatable to core workshops? Each workshop could choose which questions to include or get rid of this data is capturing libraries as creative spaces framework

Outreach

1. Pre questions on a hand out at the first session

2. Post questions mid project

3. post questions at the end of the project

4. Capture numbers at each session

or vox pox and writing down of quotes from the session.

Ultimately what we want is : total numbers, total duration of engagement and quotes

Fab lab data

1. equipment and name

frequency of visit, rank of pop equipment

Tours and volunteers

total numbers and duration of engagement

All this data will go to a spreadsheet- pulled into the wiki

Pre/post evaluation form

anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) — Sun, 17 Jun 2018 00:03:07 +0000

Pre/post evaluation form

This is a possibility pre_postoutreach.pdf

or vox pox

as well as writing journal style as a group.

The challenges: Not having had a good amount of lead in time with this engagement. Discussions with teachers has been limited. If it had been longer (no school holidays) we could have worked on ways to fit in more with how they will be able to assess this process and find ways in that for us to evaluate the program more as well….

Evaluation

anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) — Tue, 31 Jul 2018 09:26:21 +0000

Evaluation

Links

Eventbrite Pre

Forms post