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Assessment in Action Teams Selected by ACRL

assessment-in-action-logoThis spring the Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL) selected teams from 75 institutions, including 9 ARL member libraries, to participate in the first year of a new assessment program, Assessment in Action: Academic Libraries and Student Success (AiA). This is a three-year program funded by the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) and carried out by ACRL in partnership with the Association for Institutional Research and the Association of Public and Land-grant Universities.

Over the three-year period, 300 institutions of all types will be selected to participate in the AiA learning community (75 institutions in 2013–14, 100 institutions in 2014–15, 125 institutions in 2015–16). Each participating institution will identify a team consisting of a librarian and at least two additional team members as determined by the campus (e.g., faculty member, student affairs representative, institutional researchers, or academic administrator). The librarian team leaders will participate in a 14-month professional development program that includes team-based activities carried out on their campuses.

Librarians who participate in the AiA program will lead their campus teams in the development and implementation of an action learning project examining the impact of the library on student success and contributing to assessment activities on their campus. The projects will result in a variety of approaches to assessing library impact on student learning, which will be documented and disseminated for use by the wider academic library and higher education communities. The different perspectives and experiences represented by the institutional team members will foster a collaborative approach to assessing the library’s impact on student learning and success on the campus of each participating institution.

ACRL will release a call for applications for the 2014–15 class in January 2014. For more details about the program, visit the AiA website.

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