Other Community Analysis Resources on the Web

The Community Analysis Methods and Evaluative Options (CAMEO) Handbook, a step-by-step guide for public library planners, is based on work done in the late 1980s in planning, role setting, and output measures and used by the Appomattox Regional Library System (ARLS) in 1993. [Now hosted by Blue Skyways on the Pathways to Planning web site.]

This resource helps you decide how best to go about performing a needs assessment and what you can expect to gain from doing one. By following the steps outlined here, you can help organize your study and reduce both time and costs.

This resource attempts to provide information on the most commonly employed techniques for gathering primary data from community members. It is hoped that the extensive discussion of each method's purpose, procedures, advantages and disadvantages, will serve as a guide in the selection of an appropriate technique for the collection of first-hand information on local needs. [This is a .pdf file. To view it you will need to have the Adobe Acrobat Reader software on your computer.]

Martha Hale earned her Ph.D. in Public Administration from the University of Southern California and her M.L.S. from Syracuse University. Her research areas are community analysis, distance education, needs assessment, and information transfer among managers.

He is nationally known for his work in developing a theoretical base for library and information science curricula and for his research models and applications in community analysis and needs assessment.