Upcoming Events List

photo by Shaneka MorrisVisit ARL and LibQUAL+ staff at booth #528 in McCormick Place Convention Center!

Friday, June 28, 5:30 p.m.–7:00 p.m.
Saturday, June 29, 9:00 a.m.–5:00 p.m.
Sunday, June 30, 9:00 a.m.–5:00 p.m.
Monday, July 1, 9:00 a.m.–2:00 p.m.

image © John SchniebelIntended for librarians engaging an academic library value project, initiative, or research agenda, this half-day workshop will include mini-lectures, discussion, and hands-on activities to engage participants in answering four questions:

• What is academic library value, when viewed through an institutional lens?
• What library services, expertise, and resources have institutional value on your campus?
• How can you capture evidence of that value?
• What can you do with evidence of value once you have it? What decisions can you make? What actions can you take?

image © Jordon CooperARL and the Canadian Association of Research Libraries (CARL) will sponsor a workshop on using evidence for assessment and evaluation as part of the Seventh International Evidence Based Library and Information Practice Conference (EBLIP 7) in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada. This preconference session will be held on Monday, July 15, 2013, from 8:30 a.m. to 12:00 p.m.

ARL is offering 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. Online registration for the LibValue series is now open for six webcasts to be held between February and August 2013.

In this webcast Brian Keith will describe how the University of Florida Libraries used data from the 2008-2009 and 2009-2010 ARL Salary Surveys to establish and implement a market-equity design with an internally and externally equitable salary structure for faculty librarians. Judy Ruttenberg will talk from the perspective of “Transforming Research Libraries” about how staff transformation relates to the future health of our organizations.

ARL is offering a workshop about acting on LibQUAL+ survey results, led by Martha Kyrillidou, ARL director of statistics and service quality programs; Lisa Hinchliffe, professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; and Raynna Bowlby, ARL consultant. “Using LibQUAL+® Effectively and Strategically” will be held over two half days, October 22–23, 2013, in conjunction with the Southeastern Library Assessment Conference in Atlanta, Georgia.

What are retirement trends in the profession? How are these trends affecting the racial and ethnic composition of the profession? What are the job categories with the highest growth and how are new entrants coming into the profession? These topics and more will be featured in this fourth and final webcast featuring data from the ARL Annual Salary Survey.