As a member of the collection assessment community, would you please review and send comments to me (l-lyons@northwestern.edu) in regard to this evolving website http://www.library.northwestern.edu/eraca/data_bank_info/top_level/nul_databank.html? The goal is to provide support and training for librarians who have collection development duties. Thank you for any suggestions, criticisms, etc. And thanks to Joe Zucca/Penn Library Data Farm for inspiration.
Chrzastowski, Tina E. (2008). “Assessment 101 for Librarians: A Guidebook.” Science
and Technology Libraries. 28 (1/2): 155-176.
Chrzastowski, Tina E, and Lisa German, Lynn Wiley and Robert Alan (2007). “Approval
Plan Assessment in Two Large ARL Libraries: The University of Illinois at
Urbana-Champaign and Pennsylvania State University.” Charleston Book and Serial Conference, [...]
The healing power of libraries as an indicator of effectiveness — if we think of a gap in knowledge as a wound that needs to be taken for, library effectiveness may be defined by the library’s ability to fill in that knowledge gap, and heal the wound.
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the latest report from Pew ….
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The Future of the Internet III
12/14/2008 | Report | Janna Anderson Lee Rainie
A survey of internet leaders, activists and analysts shows they expect major tech advances as the phone becomes a primary device for online access, voice-recognition improves, artificial and virtual reality become more embedded [...]
a collection of articles that offers unique perspectives on library assessment over a period influenced by F.W. Lancaster
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Library Trends
Volume 56, Number 4, Spring 2008
The Influence of F. W. Lancaster on Information Science and on Libraries: Notes on the scope of this Festschrift
Lorraine J. Haricombe
Keith Russell
Abstract:
Over a period of four decades F. W. Lancaster [...]
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Brinley Franklin (U of Connecticut) and Fred Heath (U of Texas) describe the ARL Statistics and Measurement Program activities at the symposium held at Columbia University in 2008 upon the occasion of Duane Webster’s retirement
Keith Curry Lance and Ray Lyons worked on this most interesting piece regarding public library rankings:
http://www.libraryjournal.com/article/CA6566452.html
The proceedings of the June 2005 Library Assessment Conference, co-sponsored by the Association of Research Libraries (ARL) and the Alexander Technological Educational Institution of Thessaloniki Library, and partially funded by the European Community Social Fund, are now available freely on the Web and for purchase in print.
The conference focused on the need for library assessment [...]
I am engaged in a user research project that incorporates ethnographic methods (interviews with faculty and students, photo diaries, observation) here at Syracuse University Library. I’m interested in hearing from others who are using this technique, perhaps having participated in one of the CLIR (Council on Library and Information Resources) workshops conducted by Nancy [...]
Worth noting three assessment articles in the October issue of portal: Libraries and the Academy:
Franklin, Brinley. The Privatization of Public University Research Libraries
Lakos, Amos, 1946- Evidence-Based Library Management: The Leadership Challenge
Thompson, Bruce, Kyrillidou, Martha, Cook, Colleen. On-Premises Library versus Google-like Information Gateway Usage Patterns: A LibQUAL+® [...]
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