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Service Quality Evaluation Academy Now Accepting Nominations for 2011
Application Deadline: December 15, 2010
Washington DC and Ottawa Ontario—The 2011 Service Quality Evaluation Academy, co-sponsored by the Association of Research Libraries (ARL) and the Canadian Association of Research Libraries (CARL), is now accepting participant nominations, with a deadline of December 15, 2010. The [...]
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Library Assessment Career Achievement Award
Call for Nominations
Washington DC—At the 2008 Library Assessment Conference in Seattle, Amos Lakos, Shelley Phipps, and Duane Webster were honored with the Library Assessment Career Achievement Award for their contributions to furthering the practice of effective, practical, and sustainable library assessment. They were recognized for their instrumental [...]
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, [...]
This has been discussed among preservation librarians lately — Martha
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ARL Suspends Preservation Statistics
If you were asked today to invent a new ARL Preservation Statistics form, what would it look like? How would you collect the data we need to track preservation efforts in the library (and across ARL libraries)?
By now many of [...]
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/
——– Original Message ——–
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
—–Original Message—–
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 [...]
Sunday, June 27, 2010, 4 – 5:30 pm
Myth Busting: Using Data to Challenge Assumptions
LLAMA Measurement Assessement and Evaluation Section
Using Measurement Data for Library Planning and Assessment Committee
What services are actually valued by your users? Which online resources are good investments? Is texting the best way to reach your young [...]
Add new tag assessment plans data repository IMLS poster qualitative ROI wayfinding
