Reaching Out: A Community Assessment Model

About This Grant

Reaching Out: A Community Assessment Model will conduct a statistically valid survey of the library needs of the Salem community. The results of this survey will be used to chart the course of future library services and programs at Salem Public Library. A community assessment toolkit will be created that can be used by other libraries. This toolkit will include information that will help other libraries develop, implement and analyze their own community surveys, and will be made available through a website that will include information and online calculators, as well as suggestions for scaling the project to each community.