For immediate release
February 10, 2006
For more information, contact:
Martha Kyrillidou
Association of Research Libraries
202-296-2296
martha@arl.org
Washington, DC—LibQUAL+® awarded in-kind grants to six libraries to facilitate their participation in the 2006 LibQUAL+® survey. The selection of LibQUAL+® grantees was based on financial need, contribution to the growth of LibQUAL+®, and potential for surfacing best practices in the area of library service improvements. The 2006 LibQUAL+® grant recipients are:
Morehead State University offers two-year, four-year, and graduate programs in the Appalachian counties of eastern Kentucky.
Cisco Junior College is a two-year institution in rural Texas offering liberal arts and technical curricula.
Alabama A&M is a historically black university as well as a land-grant school offering undergraduate and graduate programs.
Nevada State College opened in the fall of 2002, when it became the second four-year college in southern Nevada.
The Scottish Agricultural College was created in 1990 by the merger of the three main agricultural colleges in Scotland and offers services in land-based research, advisory services, and education.
Wuhan University is a key comprehensive university of the People’s Republic of China with one of the country’s top research libraries.
LibQUAL+® is a suite of services that libraries use to solicit, track, understand, and act upon users’ opinions of service quality. These services are offered to the library community by the Association of Research Libraries (ARL). The program’s centerpiece is a rigorously tested Web-based survey that helps libraries assess and improve library services, change organizational culture, and market the library. Since 2000, more than 900 libraries have participated in LibQUAL+®, including college and university libraries, community college libraries, health sciences libraries, academic law libraries, and public libraries—some through various consortia, others as independent participants. LibQUAL+® has expanded internationally, with participating institutions in Africa, Australia, Asia, and Europe. LibQUAL+® is located on the Web at http://www.libqual.org/.
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/.