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Library Assessment Career Achievement Awardees Named for 2012

The Association of Research Libraries is pleased to announce the 2012 Library Assessment Conference Career Achievement Awards. These awards recognize individuals with substantial contributions to effective, sustainable, and practical library assessment as evidenced through presentations/publications, methods, service, advocacy, and other work. The 2012 awardees include: Karin De Jager and Joan Rapp from South Africa, Sam [...]

Vacancy for Head of Assessment at the Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford

Bodleian Libraries Head of Assessment The Bodleian Libraries, Oxford Grade 9: £42,883 – £49,689 The Bodleian Libraries are among the oldest and best-known libraries in the world, combining collections of extraordinary depth and breadth with expert services provided in historic spaces and delivered in increasing measure online. To improve the user experience, the Bodleian is [...]

LAC Affinity: Value and Return On Investment

Moderators: Lisa Hinchliffe, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign and Kara Malenfant, Association of College & Research Libraries Affinity Lunch Discussion – Wed Oct 31 Please contribute thoughts and questions you would like to discuss here!

LAC Affinity: Space and Facilities Assessment

Moderator: Joan Lippincott, Coalition for Networked Information Affinity Lunch Discussion – Wed Oct 31 Please contribute thoughts and questions you would like to discuss here!

LAC Affinity: Qualitative Methods

Moderator: Nancy Turner, Syracuse University Affinity Lunch Discussion – Wed Oct 31 Please contribute thoughts and questions you would like to discuss here!

LAC Affinity: Managing Library-related Data

Moderator: Joe Zucca, University Pennsylvania Affinity Lunch Discussion – Wed Oct 31 Please contribute thoughts and questions you would like to discuss here!

LAC Affinity: Communicating Assessment Results

Moderator: Meg Scharf, University of Central Florida Affinity Lunch Discussion – Wed Oct 31 Please contribute thoughts and questions you would like to discuss here!

LAC Affinity: Benchmarking with Other Libraries

Moderators: Vivian Lewis, McMaster University and Liz Mengel, Johns Hopkins University Affinity Lunch Discussion – Wed Oct 31 Please contribute thoughts and questions you would like to discuss here!

LAC Affinity: Accreditation, Higher Education Standards and Libraries

Moderator: Jeanne Brown, University of Nevada, Las Vegas Affinity Lunch Discussion – Wed Oct 31 Please contribute thoughts and questions you would like to discuss here!

The Association of Research Libraries has released a free recording of the MINES for Libraries® Webcast, held on September 18, 2012. The webcast provides potential and current participants with vital information about the MINES for Libraries® service, an online, transaction-based survey that collects data on the reasons people use electronic resources and on the demographics of [...]