For immediate release:
August 23, 2010

For more information, contact:
David Green
Association of Research Libraries
202-296-2296
laconf@arl.org

Library Assessment Career Achievement Award

Call for Nominations

Washington DC—At the 2008 Library Assessment Conference in Seattle, Amos Lakos, Shelley Phipps, and Duane Webster were honored with the Library Assessment Career Achievement Award for their contributions to furthering the practice of effective, practical, and sustainable library assessment. They were recognized for their instrumental roles in articulating the culture of assessment and in moving the Association of Research Libraries to a leadership role in supporting the library assessment community.

We are now soliciting nominations for the 2010 award, which will be presented at the Library Assessment Conference in Baltimore this October. The criteria are simple:

• Substantial contributions to effective, sustainable, and practical library assessment as evidenced through presentations/publications, methods, service, advocacy, and other work
• Retired from full-time work or anticipated retirement by December 31, 2011

Nominations should be sent to laconf@arl.org by September 17, 2010, with a maximum one-paragraph description of the individual’s contributions to library assessment.

Awardees will be provided travel (including two nights lodging) and registration expenses to attend the Library Assessment Conference.

Please contact laconf@arl.org if you have any questions or need additional clarification. For more information regarding the Library Assessment Conference, please see http://www.libraryassessment.org/. To contribute actively to library assessment issues, please blog at http://www.libraryassessment.info/.

The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) is a nonprofit organization of 125 research libraries in North America. 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/.