Baltimore, Maryland October 25–27, 2010
The Association of Research Libraries, the University of Virginia Library, and the University of Washington Libraries are pleased to announce the 2010 Library Assessment Conference: Building Effective, Sustainable, Practical Assessment, to be held in Baltimore, Maryland from October 25-27, 2010. The conference goal is to support and nurture the library assessment community through a mix of invited speakers, contributed papers and posters, workshops, and engaging discussion. The conference is geared toward library and information professionals and researchers with responsibility for or an interest in the broad field of library assessment with an emphasis on, but not limited to, North American academic libraries. This conference builds on the success of the first two conferences held in Charlottesville (2006) and Seattle (2008).
We are pleased to announce that the conference's five keynote speakers are confirmed:
Fred Heath: Library Assessment: The Way We Have Grown
Megan Oakleaf: Are They Learning? Are We? Learning Outcomes & the Academic Library
Danuta Nitecki: Space Assessment as a Venue for Defining the Academic Library
Stephen Town: Value, Impact and the Transcendent Library: Progress and Pressures in Performance Measurement and Evaluation
Joe Matthews: Assessing Organizational Effectiveness: The Role of Frameworks
Proposals have been submitted on the five topics on which the keynote speakers will speak, in addition to the topics below:
2010 Conference Topics
Library assessment in the following areas:
Digital libraries
Information resources and collections
Learning and teaching
Management information
Methods and tools
Organizational issues
Performance measurement and measures
Return on investment (ROI)
Services
Space planning and utilization
Usability
Usage and e-metrics
User needs
Value and impact
To join our ongoing discussion on library assessment issues, visit the library assessment blog or subscribe to arl-assess@arl.org
We look forward to seeing you in Baltimore!
Conference co-chairs:
Steve Hiller, University of Washington Libraries
Martha Kyrillidou, Association of Research Libraries
Jim Self, University of Virginia
2010 Conference Planning Committee:
John Bertot, University of Maryland
Sam Kalb, Queen's University
Liz Mengel, Johns Hopkins University
Megan Oakleaf, Syracuse University
Kathy Perry, VIVA Consortium
Bill Potter, University of Georgia
Roberta Shaffer, Library of Congress
Agnes Tatarka, University of Chicago
Stephen Town, University of York (UK)
E-mail laconf@arl.org for more information.
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