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UCLA Library Assessment Guide

"Assessment is used to make decisions that guide our future, not to validate decisions of the past."

Begin an Assessment

This guide supports library assessment activities. Its audience includes UCLA library staff, UCLA community members, and visitors from other institutions. At UCLA Library, assessment is a collaborative process.


  • UCLA Library staff member?
    Use the Start an Assessment button on the homepage. This Confluence site centralizes assessment plans, data, and tools and makes them available to the library. 
  • UCLA community member or visitor from another institution?
    Apply the included steps in a departmental or institutional context, or review other guide sections.