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ARL Releases Final Report of Research Library Impact Framework Pilot Initiative
The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) Research Library Impact Framework (RLIF) pilot initiative, established in 2019, has released its final report, Building a Community of Assessment. The report details the...
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Building a Community of Assessment: Final Report of the Research Library Impact Framework Pilot Initiative
The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) Research Library Impact Framework (RLIF) pilot initiative, established in 2019, has released its final report, Building a Community of Assessment. The report details the...
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Library Impact Research Report: Open Access Publishing: A Study of UC Berkeley Faculty Views and Practices
As part of ARL’s Research Library Impact Framework initiative, a team at the University of California (UC) Berkeley Library studied the relationship between faculty’s attitudes toward open access (OA) and their...
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Library Impact Research Report: Improving Primary Source Literacy Learning Outcomes through a Community-Centered Archives Approach
As part of ARL’s Research Library Impact Framework initiative, the University of California, Irvine (UCI) Libraries used its humanities core program—a year-long undergraduate freshman course that introduces students to the development...
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Library Impact Research Report: A Toolkit for Demonstrating and Measuring Impact of Primary Sources in Teaching and Learning
As part of ARL’s Research Library Impact Framework initiative, a team from the University of Pittsburgh Library System addressed how special collections support teaching, learning, and research. This project developed a...
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Library Impact Practice Brief: Assessing Library Information Services and Demonstrating Value through the Tailored Design Method
Demonstrating the value of a biomedical library can be a daunting and somewhat ineffective task. The current literature base contains many articles attempting to achieve this goal by analyzing the...
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Library Impact Research Report: Discovery of Published Information by Early-Career Science Faculty
As part of ARL’s Research Library Impact Framework initiative, a team from the University of Pittsburgh Library System conducted a study to understand the information-seeking behavior of early-career faculty in the...
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Library Impact Practice Brief: Supporting Library Spaces Research in the Iowa State University Library with Project Outcome
In the busy world of academic research library assessment work, can simple and easy-to-use outcome-based assessment tools contribute in meaningful and actionable ways to library decision-making? This was the question...
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Library Impact Research Report: Facilitating Innovative Research, Creative Thinking, and Problem Solving
As part of ARL’s Research Library Impact Framework initiative, the Marston Science Library (MSL) of the University of Florida (UF) George A. Smathers Libraries partnered with the UF Department of Interior...
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Library Impact Research Report: Educating and Empowering a Diverse Student Body: Supporting Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Research through Library Collections
As part of ARL’s Research Library Impact Framework initiative, a research team from the Texas Tech University (TTU) Libraries explored methods for assessing collections related to the study and research of...