Service Quality Evaluation Academy Now Accepting Nominations for 2011
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On August 3, the EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative (ELI) launched a new program to explore ways of gathering and collecting evidence of the impact of our innovations and current practices. Called “Seeking Evidence of Impact,” this program will bring the teaching and learning community into a collective discussion and consist of a variety of events, meetings, workshops, and publications over the next 18 months—all united around the theme of “seeking evidence of impact.” More information is available at the program’s website:
One of the inspirations for this program came from conversations we had with CIOs at last year’s EDUCAUSE conference. Faced with difficult budgeting and resource decisions, we found that CIOs were asking if there was data upon which to base such decisions with respect to teaching and learning support. These considerations echoed comments from other communities, all of which indicated an increasing importance on encouraging evidence-based practices in support of our students and their instructors.
This new ELI program is first and foremost an exploration of this theme. While we cannot predict “where” this program will be 18 months from now, we can say that no style, method, or school of gathering evidence will be excluded or privileged. We look forward to engaging with the community on a topic of keen importance to us all.
Please contact us if you have any questions!
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> Malcolm Brown, Director ELI < mbrown@educause.edu>
> Veronica Diaz, Associate Director ELI
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> Malcolm Brown
> Director, EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative
> email: mbrown@educause.edu
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A piece on data visualization that mentions LibValue on the side (the ARL Statistics interactive chart towards the end is lot’s of fun):
http://www.inthelibrarywiththeleadpipe.org/2009/not-just-another-pretty-picture/
and a general piece on ROI
http://www.inthelibrarywiththeleadpipe.org/2009/are-you-worth-it-what-return-on-investment/
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Subject: position announcement for researcher at IMLS
Date: Tue, 29 Jun 2010 09:46:55 -0400
From: Carlos Manjarrez
To:
Dear Martha,
I hope this note finds you well. We have reopened the search for the Research and Evaluation officer in the Office of Policy, Planning, Research and Communication (OPPRC) here at IMLS. The incumbent for this position will provide leadership in the agency by overseeing in-depth program evaluations of IMLS funding initiatives and will provide technical support to IMLS grantees in their own evaluation work. OPPRC is taking an increasingly active role in sponsoring a variety of cultural research projects, developing our own research reports, conducting in-depth cultural program evaluations, and fostering greater cooperation among Federal cultural agencies for research.
To help in these efforts we are looking for a Research and Evaluation Officer to with strong social science research methods skills, experience in program evaluation and an interest in the study of cultural organizations and programs. You’ll find that position announcement at: http://jobview.usajobs.gov/GetJob.aspx?OPMControl=1950294 or http://www.imls.gov/about/employment.shtm.
Please feel free to forward this to people you know who may have an interested in this position or could spread the word. The closing date is Friday, July 9th. Thank you in advance for your help.
Warm regards,
Carlos
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C. Arturo Manjarrez
Associate Deputy Director for Research and Statistics
Institute of Museum and Library Services
1800 M Street NW, 9th Floor
Washington, DC 20036-5802
Phone: (202) 653-4671 begin_of_the_skype_highlighting (202) 653-4671 end_of_the_skype_highlighting
Fax: (202) 653-4611
cmanjarrez@imls.gov
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Tagged IMLSIn preparation for Stephen Town’s Value & Impact Workshop, hosted by ARL, on June 28 in Washington, D.C., participants are bringing value statements from their libraries and institutions. We encourage all members of the library assessment community to post their own institutional value statements here on the blog. Feel free to copy and paste the statements in the comments section of this post.
We look forward to seeing you at the ARL Survey Coordinators and SPEC Liaisons Meeting
**Friday, June 25, 2010**
Hilton Washington
Gunston Room
1919 Connecticut Avenue Northwest
Washington, DC 20009
3:30–5:00 p.m.
We are planning to focus the meeting on a discussion of the analysis of the ARL profiles and a group of Research Library Leadership Fellows engaged in exploring the development of metrics from the profiles will discuss their efforts. Also, discussion will attempt to engage issues related to what Carole Pilkinton (Notre Dame) articulated below:
“A question has come up about ARL counting standards for e-books, and I wondered if a discussion about this issue would fit into your agenda for the Friday meeting at ALA. The specific question concerned Google Books that are digitized and in the public domain…about a million books meeting this definition are hosted by Hathi Trust, and bibliographic records are available. If an institution were to import copies of these records in their own online catalog, with links pointing to the digital full text hosted by HathiTrust, would these ‘count’ as part of the library collection? Any discussion about how others are counting e-book collections would be very useful. Some services such as Ebrary provide thousands of e-book records to be imported into a catalog for patron-initiated purchase–we don’t actually own the book until it is purchased, but technically we are providing access to the full text from each of those thousands of records. Do these records count since we are providing ‘access’ to the text? I’m sure there are other questions as well. If you think this is a good agenda item, it might even be a good idea to send out a message ahead of time to collect responses from ARL stats folks who might not be attending the meeting.”
Please post your comments on the libraryassessment.info blog at:
http://libraryassessment.info/?p=538
Lee Anne George will also be available to discuss SPEC Kit topics.
Martha Kyrillidou
Senior Director, ARL Statistics and Service Quality Programs
Association of Research Libraries
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UPDATE!
PowerPoint presentations from the ARL Survey Coordinators and SPEC Liaisons Meeting are now available for download:
ARL Library Assessment Forum
Hilton Washington
Gunston Room
Friday June 25, 2010
1:30- 3:00pm
Please come and share your experiences regarding how libraries are using data to support budget reallocation and justifications, how data are driving our understanding of trends in funding higher education and libraries, and how we are surviving the tough economic climate.
Join the Library Assessment Forum scheduled to take place on Friday, June 25, at 1:30pm in Washington DC, and share your experiences.
Please let me know if you would like to make a brief (not more than 10 minutes) formal presentation to the group with a ppt. If you have a website at your library where you post materials related to this topic, please post the URL in response to the following post on the libraryassessment.info blog:
http://libraryassessment.info/?p=536
We will also have exciting news to share regarding the upcoming Library Assessment Conference to be held in Baltimore on Oct 25-27, 2010 (the registration is open now and an official press release is coming out soon).
Look forward to seeing you in DC!
Best regards,
Martha Kyrillidou
Senior Director, ARL Statistics and Service Quality Programs
Association of Research Libraries
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UPDATE!
PowerPoint presentations from the ARL Library Assessment Forum are now available for download:
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From: jan.kemp@utsa.edu [mailto:jan.kemp@utsa.edu]
Sent: Tuesday, May 25, 2010 6:58 PM
To: collib-l@ala.org
Subject: [collib-l] Medium-Sized Academic Libraries Discussion Group
Join the ACRL College Library Section’s Medium-Sized Academic Libraries Discussion Group to discuss the topic
How are libraries demonstrating their value on campus (ROI)?
Sunday, June 27, 2010
10:30 – 12 noon
Embassy Suites Convention Center, Capital B
Please mark your calendars and join us for a stimulating discussion.
Mary B. Heinzman
Jan Kemp