Upcoming Events List

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ARL President Wendy Pradt Lougee will convene the 162nd ARL Spring Membership Meeting in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. From April 30 to May 3, 2103, member representatives will participate in committee sessions and programs on strategic planning, digital humanities, and other topics. Hosts for this meeting are the libraries from Duke University, North Carolina State University, and University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

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.

How are ARL libraries using custom peer-group analysis to make a case for higher salaries at their institutions? Carla Stoffle has systematically used these data for a number of years and will share her experience. Arnold Hirshon and Jeffrey Trzeciak have used and augmented the data ARL provided to make a similar case at their institutions.

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.

Intended 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?

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.

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.