Friends of the Library Evaluation

The City of Chandler, located in the southeastern Phoenix Metropolitan Area, is a thriving community of innovation seeking to plan a sustainable future for its residents, businesses, and visitors. As the City is dedicated to providing high quality services to the community, the Library Division of the Community Services Department is interested in evaluating its successful Friends of the Library partnership, as well as other Friends of programs and partnerships, to explore opportunities for leveraging this type of programming to improve other Community Services divisions. To advance these efforts, undergraduate Public Affairs Capstone students will collaborate with the City of Chandler through the ASU Project Cities program to examine Friends of the Library partnerships and programming locally and nationally and evaluate and assess the Chandler Friends of the Library program characteristics. Student findings and recommendations will help to inform opportunities and strategies for replicability of Friends of partnerships and programming throughout the City of Chandler.