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!
This summer’s Library Assessment Forum featured presentations on the Lib-Value project. There was also a brief update on the upcoming Library Assessment Conference in Charlottesville, Virginia. Below are PDF versions of each presentation, ready for download: Carol Tenopir (Tennessee), The Lib-Value Project: Status Report Bruce Kingma (Syracuse), Valuing the Academic Library Steve Hiller (Washington), Martha [...]
The University of Washington (UW) Libraries is transforming spaces, processes, and services in creative ways to better serve students during a time of restricted resources. They offer interactive spaces for collaborative study and research, 24/7 online chat with reference librarians, embedded reference assistance for health care teams, and electronic delivery of scanned print materials. Learn [...]
Sage and LISU study. http://libraryvalue.wordpress.com/
QQML2011 at the end of May in Athens, Greece (http://www.isast.org/qqml2011.html) was marked by a robust program and an engaging audience. Below are two sessions featuring ARL planning and assessment activities and strategic planning by ARL member libraries. It was decided that the 4th QQML 2012 International Conference will be organized in Limerick, Ireland. Thus, I had to [...]
Space is still available for the 2nd biennial Kathleen A. Zar Symposium titled “We’re Teaching, But How Do We Know If They’re Learning?” taking place Friday June 3, 2011. The deadline for registering is Friday May 20. Registration cost is $70 and includes continental breakfast, lunch buffet and conference materials. A link to register and [...]
Using the annual ARL Statistics and IPEDS data on student persistence, Mark Emmons and Frances C. Wilkinson (University of New Mexico) answer affirmatively the question of whether the academic library impacts student persistence. The study, “The Academic Library Impact on Student Persistence,” “explores the relationship between traditional library input and output measures of staff, collections, [...]
This piece mentions the 2006 Library Assessment Conference, the Lib-Value project, ARL related work, the ACRL Value report … a really good introduction. One of my Greek friends who read my facebook link to this piece finally got what I have been doing here in the US for the last twenty plus years beyond hopping [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]