Applegate, Rachel2009-04-262009-04-262009Applegate, Rachel. “Designing Comprehensive Assessment Plans: The Big Picture Leads to the Little Picture.” Pushing the Edge: Explore, Engage, Extend. Proceedings of the Fourteenth National Conference of the Association of College and Research Libraries March 12-15, 2009, Seattle, Washington. Chicago: Association of College and Research Libraries, 2009. 165-171.https://hdl.handle.net/1805/1877Having an overall plan for assessment brings measurement and meaning together--and keeps you from being overwhelmed. This paper reviews five top, bottom, middle, and sideways approaches to assessment planning: modeling an academic department, serving a strategic plan, evaluating departments, weaving existing data, and being selective (scorecards and dashboards). It is one thing to know how to assess this or that--another to make all assessment serve the library’s general mission.en-USAcademic librariesAcademic AssessmentBook chapter