“Getting the Right Fit: Tailoring Assessment Strategies for Your Library": a Collective Insight Event

Submitted by Amigos on Thu, 2014-04-17 10:04

Librarians find themselves in an ever-shifting landscape where tight budgets, increased electronic material purchasing, and ever-expanding user expectations influence the use and the perceived value of the library. Central to a library’s success will be the ability to present compelling evidence, backed by data to demonstrate the library’s contribution to their institution’s mission and goals. A key component to determining and expressing the value of the library is increasingly being drawn from a successful assessment program. This event — co-hosted by the Boston Library Consortium and OCLC — will help to define the practice of assessment, explore what drives a successful assessment program, and identify practical tools and techniques that may be tailored to use in reaching the specific assessment goals of your library.

Agenda:
9:00 a.m. — Welcome: Rob Favini, Member Liaison, OCLC, and Susan Stearns, Boston Library Consortium
9:15 a.m. — Keynote: Lynn Silipigni Connaway, Senior Research Scientist, OCLC, and Marie Radford, Chair of the Department of Information and Library Studies, Rutgers University School of Communication & Information
10:30 a.m. — Break
10:45 a.m. — Panel and discussion

  • Linda Plunket, Associate University Librarian for Graduate and Research Services and Chair of the Boston Liibrary Consortium's Community of Interest on Assessment, Boston University
  • Karen Merguerian, User Engagement Librarian, Northeastern University
  • Rachel Lewellen, Assessment Librarian, University of Massachusetts-Amherst
  • Lisa Horowitz, Assessment Librarian, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

11:45 a.m. — Summary and closing thoughts

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