The Library Quarterly, Vol. 81, No. 1 (January 2011) Library Quarterly, a well-known scholarly journal in the field, presents the essays written by the five keynote speakers from the 2010 Library Assessment Conference, held in Baltimore on October 25-27, 2010. These papers emphasize the strategic approaches to issues of service quality, library as space, learning [...]
Pictures from the 2010 Library Assessment Conference in Baltimore: http://www.flickr.com/photos/23796299@N02/
clipped from dukelibrariesinstruction.blogspot.com Assessing the assessment conference We’re back from three days in Baltimore, participating in the Building Effective, Sustainable, Practical Assessment conference. This is the third conference that ARL has sponsored, and this time around Duke staff made two contributions. Yvonne presented a poster relating our assessment efforts to the new library strategic plan, [...]
see also her Day II entry clipped from cloud.lib.wfu.edu Assessment in Libraries Conference by Wanda The 2010 Library Assessment Conference themed, Building Effective, Sustainable, Practical Assessment, is the third in a series of planned conferences devoted to building an assessment culture and community within libraries. Held every two years, the conference is co-sponsored by the [...]
clipped from ils.chriskiess.net Usability Testing in Libraries I just saw this post about a group of librarians from the University of Washington Libraries who presented at a recent conference on usability testing in libraries. I found it interesting as this is not a widely publicized topic in the library world. After all, how would you [...]
clipped from blog.libraryjournal.com Brain Full, Must Make Lists Okay, this conference has been terrific for a number of reasons, including the amazing people who are presenting, the equally amazing people who are attending, the content, the format, the venue (great hotel!), and the city (Baltimore is lovely, interesting, and extremely friendly). I’m very happy because [...]
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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 [...]
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2010 Library Assessment Conference Call for Proposals Washington, DC–The Association of Research Libraries (ARL), the University of Virginia Library, the University of Washington Libraries, and the Conference Planning Committee are pleased to issue this call for proposals for the 2010 Library Assessment Conference, Building Effective, Sustainable, Practical Assessment, to be held in Baltimore, Maryland, October [...]