Based on a review of literature on evalution of public activities and in purpose to introduce amore general framework, this study describes a picture of the concept, context, motives,strategies, use and actors in Evaluation as these are experienced outside the field of libraryand information. The background is the increased need for" evaluations in public libaries and aneed for new LIS knowledge about it. The reviewed literature has its origin in differentdisciplinary contexts and the study include contributions from policy studies, sociologi,education research, business administration, philosophy and anthropology. The focus, though,is not placed upon differences in the literature but on similarities.The review is organised in six parts. In the first part a presentation is given of how evaluationsare conceptualized and its meaning in a historical perspective. In the second the focus is uponthe context of public descision making, implementation and public programming. Different ·purpuses of evaluation is discussed in the third part followed by a description of strategies andmodels in the fourth. Issues of evaluation use is discussed in part five and finally is a presentationof those actors of particular-importance in evaluations given in part six. In the reviewedliterature the -author finds some general patterns, who are assembled and described in acomprehensive discussion. In the contusion some claimes are made about the nature ofevaluation. One claim is that evaluations are of great complexity and given several functions.This complexity is explained by the fact that evaluative activities are of increased concern andimportence for numeorous actors and their relevance for many fields of practice.Future research is suggested to focus on the role of evaluation in the perspective of politicalandadminstrative governance, program change and development, scientific knowledge andin the perspective of negotiations and communication in social and political conflicts.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:UPSALLA1/oai:DiVA.org:hb-18217 |
| Date | January 1997 |
| Creators | Zetterlund, Angela |
| Publisher | Högskolan i Borås, Institutionen Biblioteks- och informationsvetenskap / Bibliotekshögskolan, University of Borås/Swedish School of Library and Information Science (SSLIS) |
| Source Sets | DiVA Archive at Upsalla University |
| Language | Swedish |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Student thesis, info:eu-repo/semantics/bachelorThesis, text |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Rights | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess |
| Relation | Magisteruppsats i biblioteks- och informationsvetenskap vid Institutionen Bibliotekshögskolan, 1401-5358 ; 1997:33 |
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