For immediate release:
February 19, 2009

For more information, contact:
MaShana Davis
Association of Research Libraries
202-296-2296
libqual@arl.org

LibQUAL+® Share Fair, Chicago, July 13, 2009: Call for Entries

Deadline June 19, 2009

Washington DC—The LibQUAL+® team invites entries in the 2009 Share Fair to be held Monday, July 13, in conjunction with the ALA Annual Conference in Chicago, Illinois.

The Share Fair is seeking entries that will provide poster sessions, displays, or materials related to marketing, administration, and use of LibQUAL+®. Stories about what your library did after administering the survey are encouraged. The Share Fair is a venue for learning and sharing practices.

This event is open to all past, current, and potential LibQUAL+® participants.

If you are interested in sharing information with colleagues from the LibQUAL+® community, describe your entry on the Participant Information Sheet available online at http://www.libqual.org/documents/admin/sharefair09form.doc. Please return your completed Information Sheet via e-mail to libqual@arl.org no later than June 19, 2009.

If someone else in your library is better poised to respond to this invitation, please forward this e-mail.

Event Details

2009 LibQUAL+® Share Fair
Date: Monday, July 13, 2009
Time: 8:30 a.m.–10:30 a.m.
Location: Chicago, Illinois (venue TBD)
Entry Deadline: June 19, 2009

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 paired with training that helps libraries assess and improve library services, change organizational culture, and market the library. LibQUAL+® is 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 on the Web at http://www.arl.org/.