Presentations Available Online

Washington DC—The vibrant 2010 Library Assessment Conference, held October 25–27, 2010 in Baltimore, attracted more than 470 professionals interested in library assessment. The conference website now includes detailed information about the event including keynotes, presentations, and poster sessions.

The robust program offered plenary sessions from keynote speakers Fred Heath (University of Texas), Joe Matthews (JRM Consulting), Danuta Nitecki (Drexel University), Megan Oakleaf (Syracuse University), and Stephen Town (University of York, UK), and from other experts in the field—Charles Lowry (ARL), David Shulenburger (Association of Public and Land-grant Universities), and Winston Tabb (Johns Hopkins University). The program offered presentations from more than 60 papers, 80 posters, and two full-day and four half-day workshops. Topics included teaching and learning, library space, service quality (LibQUAL+®), assessment in practice, organizational performance, value and impact, usability, qualitative assessment, digital libraries, information services, marketing and advocacy, collections, and more.

The Library Assessment Career Achievement awards were presented to three luminaries in the field—Gordon Fretwell, Roswitha Poll, and Kendon Stubbs. You can see the introductory speeches for Mr. Fretwell (Martha Kyrillidou, ARL) and Mr. Stubbs (Jim Self, University of Virginia) on the Library Assessment Conference website . Roswitha Poll’s award was offered in absentia .

Multiple pre- and post-conference workshops focused on such specific issues as learning outcomes, LibQUAL+®, graphical data presentation, return on investment, the Balanced Scorecard, and telling the story of library value.

The conference featured an evening Poster Reception with 80 peer-reviewed posters including organizational performance, methods (including space and surveys), learning, collections, and LibQUAL+®. Poster authors came from around the world and from a variety of institutions.

During the reception, experts on each of the topics judged the posters on content (benefit for practice, appropriateness of methodology, etc.) and aesthetics (logical organization, visual attraction) to select twelve Judges’ Choice awards. From these twelve posters, attendees had the opportunity to vote on two People’s Choice awards for the posters.

People’s and Judges’ Choice Awards:

When Numbers Don’t Tell the Whole Story: Using Meta-Analysis to Create an Effective, Sustainable Electronic Resource Assessment Process
David Nolfi, Carmel Yurochko, and Tracie Ballock (Duquesne University)
Sharing the Wealth: A Process for Engaging a Large Group in Coding LibQUAL+® Survey Comments
Daniel O’Mahony (Brown University)

Judges’ Choice Awards:

Cite It, Write It!: Analysis of Freshman English Bibliographies
Melissa Bowles-Terry and Kaijsa Calkins (University of Wyoming)
Critical Sources Identified: Gathering, Organizing, and Analyzing Evidence—Just Like a CSI Unit!
Kay Chapa, Scott Carpenter, and Jane Scott (University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center)
Creating Analyst Positions in an Academic Library: The UC-San Diego Experience
Kymberly Goodson and Dan Suchy (University of California, San Diego)
Building Buy-In Using the Information Literacy Instruction Assessment Cycle
Margaret Grotti (University of Delaware)
Using Library Swipe-Card Data to Inform Decision Making
Jennifer Jones (Georgia State University)
Assessing Library Performance Using the Baldrige Criteria for Performance Excellence: The Systems That Focus on Results and Ensure Sustainability
Susan Makar, Mary-Deirdre Coraggio, Mylene Ouimette, and Barbara P. Silcox (National Institute of Standards and Technology)
Music Library Space Use Study: Assessing When “Times They Are a Changin’”
Margaret Martin Gardiner and Monica Fazekas (The University of Western Ontario)
Using LibQUAL+® for Continuous Improvement at Eastern Washington University Libraries
Julie Miller (Eastern Washington University)
Assessing Student Learning through Collaboration
Lisa Moeckel and Noreen Gaubatz (Syracuse University)
Students Studying Students
Allyson Washburn and Sheila Bibb (Brigham Young University)

Congratulations to the awardees! Library Assessment Conference posters and their abstracts are freely available on the conference website at http://libraryassessment.org/archive/2010_posters .

Other conference presentations and related materials are freely available on the conference website at http://libraryassessment.org/ . ARL will publish the conference proceedings in the coming year.

The 2010 Library Assessment Conference Planning Committee wishes to thank all of the presenters and participants for an engaging, productive, and gratifying conference.

Conference Co-Chairs:
Steve Hiller, University of Washington
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)

The next Library Assessment Conference is being planned for fall 2012 in Charlottesville, Virginia.

The Library Assessment Conference is cosponsored by the Association of Research Libraries, the University of Virginia Library, and the University of Washington Libraries, and takes place every two years. 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. For more information, see: http://www.libraryassessment.org/

The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) is a nonprofit organization of 126 research libraries in North America. 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/ .

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