The Association of Research Libraries invites libraries to join the global assessment community of LibQUAL+® by registering for the 2018 LibQUAL+ survey.
LibQUAL+ is a tool that libraries use to solicit, track, understand, and act upon users’ opinions of service quality. The protocol is a rigorously tested web survey that helps libraries assess and improve library services, change organizational culture, and market the library.
Since 2000, more than 1,300 libraries in 35 countries have participated in LibQUAL+, including college and university, community college, health sciences, and academic law libraries. This growing community of participants and its extensive data set of more than two million completed surveys are rich resources for improving library services.
Register to Participate in 2018
The 2018 LibQUAL+ registration fee is $3,200.
New participants may register by sending e-mail to libqual@arl.org.
Past participants may register on the LibQUAL+ website and may be eligible for reduced fees. Institutions that participated in LibQUAL+ in 2017 will receive a discount of $1,000 on their 2018 survey registration, and institutions that last participated in 2016 will receive a discount of $500.
As a benefit of registration, participants are able to view results for all libraries participating in the same survey year. For access to the full set of survey results from 2000 through 2018, institutions may purchase an annual LibQUAL+ Membership Subscription for $1,000.
Registration Deadlines
Registration is ongoing and enables participants to implement a survey at any time during the two LibQUAL+ survey sessions in 2018:
- Session I: January 15–May 31, 2018
- Session II: July 1–December 9, 2018
Registration for the 2018 survey year will close on November 1, 2018.
Free Online Training: January and May 2018
The Association of Research Libraries is offering free online training for LibQUAL+ survey administrators in January and May 2018. Topics covered in January will include preparing for a survey, random sampling, communications planning, and survey administration; in May the training will cover understanding survey results and analyzing the data. Training registration information will be released later in 2017.
About the Association of Research Libraries
The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) is a nonprofit organization of 123 research libraries in the US and Canada. ARL’s 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 ARL.org.
