SLIS Faculty News

SLIS faculty member Rachel Applegate gave an in-house workshop for the staff of the Edsel and Eleanor Ford House. This historic house museum is located in Gross Pointe Shores, Michigan (outside of Detroit). In an email interview, Applegate gave some details about the workshop (given October 21, 2009):

I gave an in-house workshop for about 16 staff of the Ford House. This was based on the Shaping Outcomes approach to "outcomes-based planning and evaluation." Staff worked in groups to learn and apply concepts such as audience orientation, needs assessment and results desired, and concrete, observable indicators of outcomes. An outcomes-based approach can be used with projects that any museum or library could do: internal such as effective signage, single-institution such as effective tours for children, and multiple-institution such as partnering with another museum, or library, or educational institution, for programs of mutual benefits.

Posted Oct. 27, 2009