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LibValue Webcast on Comprehensive Approaches to Defining Library Value: Video Online

libvalue-webcast-slideThe video of the webcast “LibValue: Comprehensive Approaches to Defining Library Value” presented on May 9, 2013, is now available on ARL’s YouTube channel. This webcast provides an overview of methods used to estimate value in academic libraries and describes a study that calculated return on investment at the Syracuse University Library in 2010–2011. The presenter is Bruce Kingma, professor in the School of Information Sciences and Whitman School of Management at Syracuse University. Webcast slides (PDF) are also availble for download. 

The LibValue project is 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. LibValue is a collaboration among the University of Tennessee, Knoxville; the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Libraries; and ARL, with partners at Syracuse University and Bryant University. This is the fourth in a series of six free webcasts to be held in 2013. Register for the LibValue webcast series.


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 https://www.arl.org/.

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