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To justify budgets

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Grant funding

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To determine the needs of the people we serve

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To make our case for funding to stakeholders, to guide the decisions we make in the future

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State reporting requirements

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To identify areas for improvement or growth

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To support budget requests and grants.

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Improve services

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To validate offering programs and spending money on them.

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Justify our existence

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Storytelling

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To justify our existence

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Required for state report, board is interested, trying to see trends.

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Keep an objective measurement of impact

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Grant requirements

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To learn about community needs.

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Show the value and trends in the library world

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To assess successful programming

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To communicate impact

To justify work/staffing

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To demonstrate value

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To know if we're being effective.

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To show impact and value of the library in the community

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So staff can celebrate their efforts!

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To justify our continued existence.

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state and locality reporting

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To justify staffing and paygrades

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To know we're actually doing something lol

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Track success and meet goals

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Grant funding and justifying county funding

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Demonstrate impact on student success

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Justify budget and funding

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Accountability

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To justify staff cuts (is the fear)

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Asking the right question to guide action

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Justify budgets, required for federal PLS, decision making

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state report and to track our efforts in order to report to the community

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Resource allocation

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To realize if we're meeting ifnormation needs

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Scan for problems (such as, why this sudden change)

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to inform policy

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Hard data is important to many. We value what we can measure. Basis to tell the story of what we do and how we are succeeding.

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Define success, justify change (just went fine free!), find holes in services

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Accountability

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To identify how well program outcomes are being met.

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Finding out what works vs what doesn't

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advocacy

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To broadcast and optimize our impact

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To know when to discontinue a service or program.

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Confidence in ourselves and our strengths and weaknesses

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For justification and allocation purposes - also for staff engagement and seek where we are winning or need improvement.