For immediate release: January 24, 2013

For more information, contact: Amy Yeager Association of Research Libraries 202-296-2296 amy@arl.org

Washington, DC—Online registration is now open for a free webcast on the ways that libraries contribute to undergraduate student success, sponsored by the LibValue project and the Association of Research Libraries (ARL). This one-hour program will highlight two areas related to student success: the physical space of the library and teaching/learning environmental interventions, drawing on results of surveys about commons spaces, as well as surveys of instructors and students.

Martha Kyrillidou, senior director of ARL statistics and service quality programs, will host the webcast. Guest presenters will include:

• Rachel Fleming-May, Assistant Professor, School of Information Sciences, University of Tennessee
• Regina Mays, Assistant Professor and Assessment Librarian, University of Tennessee Libraries
• Teresa Walker, Associate Professor and Head, Integrated User Services, University of Tennessee Libraries

This is the first in a series of free webcasts highlighting results from the LibValue project, a three-year study funded by the Institute of Museum and Library Services to define and measure ways in which libraries create value through teaching and learning, research, and social, professional, and public engagement. Additional webcasts will be held between March and August 2013.

LibValue is a collaboration among the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Libraries, and the Association of Research Libraries, with partners at Syracuse University and Bryant University.

Register online for the LibValue Webcast: Undergraduate Student Success, to be held on Thursday, February 14, at 1:00 p.m. EST. There is no fee for attending this webcast, and it will be recorded and made freely available on ARL’s YouTube channel.

The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) is a nonprofit organization of 125 research libraries in the US and Canada. Its mission is to influence the changing environment of scholarly communication and the public policies that affect research libraries and the diverse communities they serve. ARL pursues this mission by advancing the goals of its member research libraries, providing leadership in public and information policy to the scholarly and higher education communities, fostering the exchange of ideas and expertise, facilitating the emergence of new roles for research libraries, and shaping a future environment that leverages its interests with those of allied organizations. ARL is on the web at http://www.arl.org/.