What is the ACRL Research Forum? The ACRL Research Coordinating Committee is pleased to sponsor a new forum to give those doing research in academic library contexts an opportunity to share their work with a national audience at the upcoming ALA Annual Conference in Anaheim, CA, June 21-26, 2012. The ACRL Research Forum will feature [...]
“Return on Investment in a Tough Economy — Defining the Value of the Academic Library” Sunday, June 26, 2011, 1:30-3:30 p.m. Convention Center Room 393-394 ALA Annual 2011 – New Orleans, Louisiana A program jointly sponsored by two Library Leadership & Management Association (LLAMA) Committees: MAES Data Collection for Library Managers and LOMS Financial Management [...]
Today, Ithaka S+R is publicly releasing our Library Survey 2010: Insights From U.S. Academic Library Directors, and it is now available from our website at http://bit.ly/eBdWYd. The Library Survey aims to help academic libraries and other members of the higher education community understand the changing role of the library and how to adapt strategically to [...]
WORLD LIBRARY AND INFORMATION CONGRESS: 77th IFLA General Conference and Council “Libraries Beyond Libraries: Integration, Innovation, and Information for All” San Juan, Puerto Rico, 13-18 August 2011 CALL FOR PROPOSALS: DEADLINE EXTENDED Programme Title: Data Collection in the Service of Libraries Congress Track: Users driving access and services The Library Theory and Research and Statistics [...]
ARL Survey Coordinators, SPEC Liaisons to Convene at ALA Midwinter January 7, 2011 – 3:30–5:00pm San Diego Convention Center, Room 28A A meeting of the ARL Survey Coordinators and SPEC Liaisons will be held on January 7, 2011, from 3:30 p.m. to 5:00 p.m., in San Diego in conjunction with the ALA Midwinter Meeting. The [...]
ARL, LibQUAL+®, and SPARC will be hosting several events in conjunction with the ALA Midwinter Meeting in San Diego, January 7–10, 2011…
clipped from www.arl.org 2010 Library Assessment Career Achievement Awardees Named Washington DC—The Association of Research Libraries has announced the recipients of the 2010 Library Assessment Career Achievement Award. The awardees are three librarians who were instrumental in the definition and use of standardized and consistent statistical data—Gordon Fretwell, Roswitha Poll, and Kendon Stubbs. While the [...]
Don’t Miss Out – Registration Closes on October 1st! You don’t want to miss ALA Library Research Roundtable’s 5th Library Research Seminar, Integrating Practice and Research! The October 6-9, 2010 conference is being hosted by the University of Maryland, College of Information Studies at the Marriott Inn and Conference Center near the University of Maryland’s [...]
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, [...]
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 [...]