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Service Quality Evaluation Academy Now Accepting Nominations for 2011

martha kyrillidou — Fri, 27 Aug 2010 21:02:58 +0000

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 academy is an intensive five-day program that focuses on both quantitative analyses (e.g., various descriptive statistics, and score reliability and validity analyses) and qualitative analysis of texts using the Atlas TI software and potentially some related strategies (e.g., focus groups) for analyzing library service quality data. The academy will also provide participants with the opportunity to share library service quality assessment plans/strategies and experiences.

Library Assessment Career Achievement Award – Call for Nominations

martha kyrillidou — Fri, 27 Aug 2010 21:01:48 +0000

clipped from www.arl.org

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 roles in articulating the culture of assessment and in moving the Association of Research Libraries to a leadership role in supporting the library assessment community.

We are now soliciting nominations for the 2010 award which will be given at the Library Assessment Conference in Baltimore this October. The criteria are simple:

EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative (ELI) – “Seeking Evidence of Impact”

martha kyrillidou — Tue, 17 Aug 2010 13:39:36 +0000

On August 3, the EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative (ELI) launched a new program to explore ways of gathering and collecting evidence of the impact of our innovations and current practices. Called “Seeking Evidence of Impact,” this program will bring the teaching and learning community into a collective discussion and consist of a variety of events, meetings, workshops, and publications over the next 18 months—all united around the theme of “seeking evidence of impact.” More information is available at the program’s website:

One of the inspirations for this program came from conversations we had with CIOs at last year’s EDUCAUSE conference. Faced with difficult budgeting and resource decisions, we found that CIOs were asking if there was data upon which to base such decisions with respect to teaching and learning support. These considerations echoed comments from other communities, all of which indicated an increasing importance on encouraging evidence-based practices in support of our students and their instructors.

This new ELI program is first and foremost an exploration of this theme. While we cannot predict “where” this program will be 18 months from now, we can say that no style, method, or school of gathering evidence will be excluded or privileged. We look forward to engaging with the community on a topic of keen importance to us all.

Please contact us if you have any questions!

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ARL Suspends Preservation Statistics

martha kyrillidou — Sun, 18 Jul 2010 22:08:56 +0000

This has been discussed among preservation librarians lately — Martha

clipped from prescan.wordpress.com

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 you know that the Association of Research Libraries (ARL) has decided not to collect preservation statistics for 2009-2010, something they have been doing since 1984.

Visualization with ARL Statistics and ROI

martha kyrillidou — Fri, 09 Jul 2010 11:08:43 +0000

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/

position announcement for researcher at IMLS

martha kyrillidou — Tue, 29 Jun 2010 19:49:02 +0000

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Subject: position announcement for researcher at IMLS
Date: Tue, 29 Jun 2010 09:46:55 -0400
From: Carlos Manjarrez
To:

Dear Martha,

I hope this note finds you well. We have reopened the search for the Research and Evaluation officer in the Office of Policy, Planning, Research and Communication (OPPRC) here at IMLS. The incumbent for this position will provide leadership in the agency by overseeing in-depth program evaluations of IMLS funding initiatives and will provide technical support to IMLS grantees in their own evaluation work. OPPRC is taking an increasingly active role in sponsoring a variety of cultural research projects, developing our own research reports, conducting in-depth cultural program evaluations, and fostering greater cooperation among Federal cultural agencies for research.

To help in these efforts we are looking for a Research and Evaluation Officer to with strong social science research methods skills, experience in program evaluation and an interest in the study of cultural organizations and programs. You’ll find that position announcement at: http://jobview.usajobs.gov/GetJob.aspx?OPMControl=1950294 or http://www.imls.gov/about/employment.shtm.

Please feel free to forward this to people you know who may have an interested in this position or could spread the word. The closing date is Friday, July 9th. Thank you in advance for your help.

Warm regards,

Carlos

________________________________________________

C. Arturo Manjarrez

Associate Deputy Director for Research and Statistics

Institute of Museum and Library Services

1800 M Street NW, 9th Floor

Washington, DC 20036-5802

Phone: (202) 653-4671 begin_of_the_skype_highlighting (202) 653-4671 end_of_the_skype_highlighting

Fax: (202) 653-4611

cmanjarrez@imls.gov

Visit www.imls.gov to learn more about the Institute’s programs, news,

initiatives, and to sign up for Primary Source, our monthly e-newsletter.

Library Value Statements (Value & Impact Workshop)

david green — Fri, 18 Jun 2010 17:34:42 +0000

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 statements in the comments section of this post.

ARL Survey Coordinators and SPEC Liaisons Meeting – June 25, 2010

martha kyrillidou — Wed, 09 Jun 2010 14:49:48 +0000

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 of metrics from the profiles will discuss their efforts. Also, discussion will attempt to engage issues related to what Carole Pilkinton (Notre Dame) articulated below:

“A question has come up about ARL counting standards for e-books, and I wondered if a discussion about this issue would fit into your agenda for the Friday meeting at ALA. The specific question concerned Google Books that are digitized and in the public domain…about a million books meeting this definition are hosted by Hathi Trust, and bibliographic records are available. If an institution were to import copies of these records in their own online catalog, with links pointing to the digital full text hosted by HathiTrust, would these ‘count’ as part of the library collection? Any discussion about how others are counting e-book collections would be very useful. Some services such as Ebrary provide thousands of e-book records to be imported into a catalog for patron-initiated purchase–we don’t actually own the book until it is purchased, but technically we are providing access to the full text from each of those thousands of records. Do these records count since we are providing ‘access’ to the text? I’m sure there are other questions as well. If you think this is a good agenda item, it might even be a good idea to send out a message ahead of time to collect responses from ARL stats folks who might not be attending the meeting.”

Please post your comments on the libraryassessment.info blog at:

http://libraryassessment.info/?p=538

Lee Anne George will also be available to discuss SPEC Kit topics.

Martha Kyrillidou
Senior Director, ARL Statistics and Service Quality Programs
Association of Research Libraries

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UPDATE!

PowerPoint presentations from the ARL Survey Coordinators and SPEC Liaisons Meeting are now available for download:

“How Using ARL Statistics Helped Get Us More Money!“, Steve Hiller, University of Washington
“From ARL Profiles to Questions for the ARL Supplementary Statistics?“, Martha Kyrillidou, Ann Snowman, Patrick Reakes, & Bob Fox, Association of Research Libraries

ARL Library Assessment Forum

martha kyrillidou — Tue, 08 Jun 2010 20:36:30 +0000

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 to take place on Friday, June 25, at 1:30pm in Washington DC, and share your experiences.

Please let me know if you would like to make a brief (not more than 10 minutes) formal presentation to the group with a ppt. If you have a website at your library where you post materials related to this topic, please post the URL in response to the following post on the libraryassessment.info blog:

http://libraryassessment.info/?p=536

We will also have exciting news to share regarding the upcoming Library Assessment Conference to be held in Baltimore on Oct 25-27, 2010 (the registration is open now and an official press release is coming out soon).

Look forward to seeing you in DC!

Best regards,

Martha Kyrillidou
Senior Director, ARL Statistics and Service Quality Programs
Association of Research Libraries

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UPDATE!

PowerPoint presentations from the ARL Library Assessment Forum are now available for download:

“Using Data to Pursue Alternative Funding Sources”, Rachel Besara and Kirsten Kinsley, Florida State University
“Budget Overview – June 2010“, Jim Self, University of Virginia

ACRL College Library Section’s Medium-Sized Academic Libraries

martha kyrillidou — Tue, 01 Jun 2010 19:38:02 +0000

—–Original Message—–
From: jan.kemp@utsa.edu [mailto:jan.kemp@utsa.edu]
Sent: Tuesday, May 25, 2010 6:58 PM
To: collib-l@ala.org
Subject: [collib-l] Medium-Sized Academic Libraries Discussion Group

Join the ACRL College Library Section’s Medium-Sized Academic Libraries Discussion Group to discuss the topic

How are libraries demonstrating their value on campus (ROI)?

Sunday, June 27, 2010
10:30 – 12 noon
Embassy Suites Convention Center, Capital B

Please mark your calendars and join us for a stimulating discussion.

Mary B. Heinzman
Jan Kemp