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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 [...]
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/
In 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 [...]
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 [...]
What does “Item sampling in service quality assessment surveys to improve response rates and reduce respondent burden: The “LibQUAL+® Lite” randomized control trial (RCT)” [total: 910] has in common with “Power System Control with Distributed Flexible AC Transmission System Devices” [total: 940]?
They are both listed among the top two entries at the University of Illinois [...]
LibQUAL+® will award up to five institutions in-kind grants to participate in the 2011 LibQUAL+® survey, with a goal of offering one grant for every 50 libraries registered. This is the sixth year LibQUAL+® has sponsored an in-kind grant program. There are two application deadlines for the 2011 grant program: June 15, 2010, and December [...]
Friday, January 15, 2010
1:30 p.m.–3:00 p.m.
Library Assessment Forum:
Effective, Sustainable, and Practical Assessment
InterContinental Hotel
Griffin/Robinson Room
Boston MA
The forum focused on the recent IMLS grant on Return on Investment (ROI) awarded to ARL, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and the University of Tennessee with a presentation by Carol Tenopir, co-PI, who led a discussion on the research that [...]
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