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 [...]
Another packed room in Dallas enjoyed presentations on the Lib-Value project progress and 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), Indicators of Value Ken Wise and Gayle Baker (Tennessee), Assessing the Return on Investment in Digitized Special [...]
As it seemed to be with all assessment events at the recent ALA conference, the ARL Library Assessment Forum played to a room bursting at the seams. The opening three presenters provided the latest findings from the research that is underway under the Lib-Value grant. Don King (Bryant U and U of Tennessee) kicked things off by [...]
“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 [...]
Well-done pilot study by Denise Pan, Gabrielle Wiersma, and Yem Fong at the University of Colorado that was inspired by the first ROI study at UIUC. That paper is also worth a look: http://www.goeshow.com/acrl/national/2011/client_uploads/handouts/towards_demonstrating_value.pdf
A thoughtful critique on ROI by Jim Neal, Vice President for Information Services and University Librarian, Columbia University, signaling Tenopir’s Lib-Value project as a bright exception: “Stop the Madness: The Insanity of ROI and the Need for New Qualitative Measures of Academic Library Success” http://www.goeshow.com/acrl/national/2011/client_uploads/handouts/stop_the_madness1.pdf And here’s the Chronicle piece with a brief overview of [...]
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 [...]
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/
Interesting calculations on the value of the library from the Cornell University Library Research & Assessment Unit: http://research.library.cornell.edu/value
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