The development and evaluation of eERL – the electronic Environmental Resources Library – requires the participation and involvement of a wide network of actors and participants ranging from environmental technology educators and students and environmental technology practitioners and technicians, to information specialists, computer technologists, and librarians.

In such a complex multi-process environment, formative and summative evaluation of eERL becomes a cooperative effort involving the hundreds of individuals participating in the implementation, cataloging, consulting, collection building, testing, code writing, advising, data loading, marketing, metadata crafting, and review processes.

eERL evaluation tools are many and varied. Feedback is gathered from needs assessment and marketing surveys, tape recorded Think Aloud trials, classroom implementation and outcomes assessment, documentation and guides written and rewritten with input of library implementers and library users, literature reviews, and idea sharing through cooperative participation in organizations such as NSDL.

eERL evaluative instruments and resources include:

ATEEL/eERL Survey (needs assessment – research preferences)
http://www.uni.edu/neuhaus/ATEELsurvey.doc

Digital Library Bibliography of Assessment and Evaluation
http://www.uni.edu/neuhaus/digitalbibeval.html 

Online Resources Survey (research preferences – marketing survey)
http://www.uni.edu/neuhaus/OnlineResourcesUsed.doc

Outcomes Assessment for eERL Classroom Implementation (faculty survey)
http://www.uni.edu/neuhaus/outcomesassessment.html

Outcomes Assessment for eERL Classroom Implementation (student survey)
http://www.uni.edu/neuhaus/outcomesassessmentstudent.html

Teacher's Guide for eERL Implementation
http://www.uni.edu/neuhaus/eerlteachersguide.html

Think Aloud Scirpt
http://www.uni.edu/neuhaus/thinkaloudscript.html