Event date: April 17, 2012

Washington DC— Online registration is now open for the 2012 ClimateQUAL® Webcast, a free workshop designed to provide potential and current participants with vital information on the ClimateQUAL® service, a survey protocol capturing data on Organizational Climate and Diversity Assessment (OCDA). This one-hour webcast will provide practical information for administering a survey, help participants with interpreting the data and its analysis, and share best practices in using the results.

The webcast will feature Paul Hanges (Maryland), the lead researcher of the ClimateQUAL® protocol who will cover the fundamental tenets of the protocol and David Green (ARL) who will highlight important implementation steps. Jay Schafer (Massachusetts), Jean Zanoni (Marquette) and Sue Baughman (ARL) will discuss the drivers of this assessment and follow-up actions based on the survey results. Martha Kyrillidou (ARL) will host and facilitate the event. Q&A will be available through an online bulletin board.

Please register here for the ClimateQUAL® Webcast, to be held on April 17 at 1:00 p.m. EDT. The webcast will be recorded and made freely available on ARL’s YouTube channel .

The ClimateQUAL® Webcast is part of the 2012 ARL Statistics & Assessment Webcast Series. A free recording of the LibQUAL+® Webcast is available on the ARL YouTube Channel . For more information on future events in the series, please visit our press release .

The ClimateQUAL®: Organizational Climate and Diversity Assessment (OCDA) protocol captures staff perceptions concerning the organization’s commitment to the principles of diversity, staff perceptions of organizational policies and procedures, and staff attitudes through a standardized survey tool. The Association of Research Libraries, in partnership with the University of Maryland Industrial/Organizational Psychology Program, offers this protocol to the library community. This assessment service currently has more than 40 partner libraries across the US, Canada, and UK. ClimateQUAL® is on the web at http://www.climatequal.org/ .

The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) is a nonprofit organization of 126 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/ .

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