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IMLS grant on Lib-Value featured at the ARL Library Assessment Forum

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 [...]

2010 03 06 martha kyrillidou ARL
IMLS
usage studies
user studies
value Comments (1)

Columbia University Libraries Assessment Forums

The Columbia University Libraries recently opened the Assessment Forums speakers series to the public. You can now access presentations and podcasts of the Forums online.
Columbia University Libraries Assessment Forums are an opportunity for staff at the Libraries and our colleagues in the community to learn about successful assessment projects at nearby college and university libraries. [...]

2009 12 14 jennifer rutner announcements
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Living the Balanced Scorecard

LLAMA Measurement Assessment and Evaluation Section (MAES) Pre-conference Workshop
Living the Balanced Scorecard, an exciting and engaging pre-conference workshop, will be held on Friday, July 10, 9:00 am – 4:30 pm during the ALA Annual 2009 conference in Chicago, sponsored by LLAMA MAES. The workshop will be presented by Joe Matthews of the San Jose [...]

2009 03 26 martha kyrillidou Comments (1)

Graduate Student and Faculty Spaces and Services, SPEC Kit 308

Washington DC—The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) has published Graduate Student and Faculty Spaces and Services, SPEC Kit 308, which explores the variety of resources and services being delivered to or envisioned for these users by ARL member libraries.
Recently, ARL libraries have begun to experiment with an enriched set of spaces and services to meet [...]

2008 12 17 martha kyrillidou announcements Comments (0)

The LibQUAL+® Update: October 2008

Hello Assessment Community:
The current issue of the LibQUAL+® Update is now available online at: http://www.libqual.org/documents/admin/LQUpdate_October2008_Final.pdf.
Highlights in this issue:

Survey information 2008-2009
2009 ALA Midwinter Meeting in Denver, CO
Spotlight On: Northeastern University
Plans for the 2010 Library Assessment Conference
LibQUAL+® Publications: Papers, Posters, & Presentations
and much more!

Please feel free to contact the LibQUAL+® team at libqual@arl.org with any questions [...]

2008 11 04 mashana davis ARL
LibQUAL+®
conferences
statistics
workshops Comments (0)

LAC2008: Poster, “Proving Value and Preserving Staff Sanity: A Centralized Data Repository”

For a description of the poster, please see the abstract (#7, page 13).
You can view the poster here.
For those interested in the progress of the process described in the poster, you may contact Kay (kay.chapa@utsouthwestern.edu) or Scott (scott.carpenter@utsouthwestern.edu).
On a related matter, an “Affinity Lunch Group” met on the last day of the conference to share [...]

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2008 08 15 kay chapa LAC 2008 Comments (1)

Distance Education Student Surveys

This year UVic Libraries are looking into conducting a survey of all our distance ed students, as we noticed that their responses to LibQUAL+ indicated that they had concerns that were not being evaluated by that survey. I am just wondering if anyone has implemented a survey of distance ed students and if so is [...]

2008 08 15 chelsea garside questionnaires Comments (0)

Public Library Assessment As Municipal Performance Measurement

For public libraries in the USA, a primary assessment model is the Public Library Association’s planning-for-results program, an approach quite similar to performance measurement practice in municipal management and public administration. The National Center for Public Productivity (http://www.ncpp.us) promotes government performance assessment by offering manuals, bibliographies, survey instruments, best practice resources, and distance learning courses. [...]

2008 08 09 ray lyons Comments (1)

LAC 2008 – creating assessment plans web page

If you visit http://www.lib.uchicago.edu/e/

2008 08 06 agnes tatarka Comments (0)

Columbia University Libraries Poster Session at LAC 2008

In an effort to be a little “green” at this conference, Columbia is posting a link to its poster session, “Building an Assessment Program at Columbia University Libraries: Year One,” rather than producing handouts.
This poster session highlights early successes of the assessment program, describes the process of researching and writing an assessment plan, illustrates [...]

2008 08 04 jennifer rutner LAC 2008 Comments (0)