For immediate release:
December 14, 2007

For more information, contact:
Elaina Norlin
Manager, New Initiatives and Outreach
OCLC
800-543-4599 ext. 1240
norline@oclc.org

Kristina Justh
Customer Relations Coordinator, Statistics and Measurement
Association of Research Libraries
202-296-2296
kristina@arl.org

ARL to Co-Sponsor Workshops on Assessment (February 2008) and Strategic Persuasion (April 2008)

Washington DC—The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) is co-sponsoring two upcoming workshops with OCLC CAPCON, the Special Libraries Association (SLA), and the Federal Library and Information Center Committee (FLICC).

Planning for Results: Making Data Work for You

Cato Institute
Washington DC
February 19-20, 2008
9:30 a.m.–3:30 p.m.
Fee: $275

Libraries today have to balance the provision of traditional and non-traditional resources. With so many different resources competing for library budget dollars, there is pressure to continuously produce data to use in decision making. This two-day comprehensive session will focus on the creation of “actionable data” and will demonstrate techniques that result in easily produced, significant information every time. The session will examine effective assessment tools, survey design, analyzing data, and packaging results to communicate to stakeholders.

Featured speakers

• Martha Kyrillidou, Director, Statistics and Service Quality Programs, ARL
• Neil Kaske, Chief of Public Services and Regional Libraries, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
• Rick Garcia, Director of Quality Assurance, US Government Printing Office
• Ray Lyons, Library Consultant
• Kristina Justh, Customer Relations Coordinator, Statistics and Measurement, ARL
• Gary Roebuck, Technical Operations Manager, Statistics and Measurement, ARL

Topics will include

• Why assess? What is assessment?
• Survey design
• Analysis and interpretation
• Communicating results to stakeholders
• Assessment as a PR tool

Registration

Register by February 11, 2008, at http://www.oclc.org/capcon/membership/news/Register_today_for_P.htm.

The Art of Strategic Persuasion

Cato Institute
Washington DC
April 10, 2008
9:30 a.m.–3:30 p.m.
Fee: TBD

This workshop will feature keynote speaker, Thomas F. Calcagni, Chief Communications Strategist, Special Libraries Association. Mr. Calcagni is responsible for developing, implementing, and delivering SLA’s strategic messaging, communication, and branding strategies. The event also features Susan Miller, founder of Voicetrainer LLC, a voice-coaching and communication consulting business serving corporate, government, association, and diplomatic clients.

More information will soon be available at http://www.arl.org/stats/statsevents/index.shtml.

The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) is a nonprofit organization of 123 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, and shaping a future environment that leverages its interests with those of allied organizations. ARL is located on the Web at http://www.arl.org/.