ARL gathers and disseminates data and analytics on research library practices, effectiveness, and impact.
Our Research and Analytics program pursues a research agenda for the Association. We collect and analyze data on all aspects of research libraries’ roles in scholarly and scientific production, learning facilitation and learner success, and knowledge access and sustainability.
The program supports an active community for librarians interested in library assessment, evaluation, and improvement. This community shares approaches and solutions to problems through two activities:
- ARL maintains an online email community, ARL-Assess, that is open to all who are interested in joining.
- The Library Assessment Conference, co-sponsored by ARL and the University of Washington, is a biennial event that gathers practitioners and researchers. The conference provides a mix of invited speakers, contributed papers and posters, and workshops.
Contact Sue Baughman (sue@arl.org) with questions.
Scientist Aims to Optimize Science through Data Analysis
Research Library Impact Pilots
ARL Salary Survey Statistical Trends
ARL Statistics Survey Statistical Trends
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2019 Survey Schedule
ARL Annual Survey Data Collection 2019 2018–19 ARL Statistics Survey Opens: August 15, 2019 Survey Due to ARL: January 15, 2020 Tentative Publication Dates: Summer 2020 2019–20 ARL Salary Survey...
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ARL Annual Salary Survey
This survey gathers data on salaries for more than 13,000 professional positions in ARL member libraries and tracks minority representation in ARL US libraries. The data collected includes the average,...
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ARL Statistics® Survey
This survey collects data that describe the collections, overall library expenditures, materials expenditures, staffing, and operational and service activities of member libraries. This data series began in 1908 and represents...
