CFP: 2012
Library Assessment Conference - Deadline extended through Monday,
April 2, 2012
The Association of Research Libraries (ARL), the University
of Virginia Library, the University of Washington Libraries, and the Conference
Planning Committee are pleased to issue this call for proposals for the 2012
Library Assessment Conference: Building Effective, Sustainable, Practical
Assessment, to be held in Charlottesville, Virginia, October 29-31, 2012.
The conference goal is to build and further a vibrant
library assessment community by bringing together interested practitioners and
researchers who have responsibility or interest in the broad field of library
assessment. The conference provides a mix of invited speakers, contributed
papers and posters, and workshops that stimulate discussion and provide
workable ideas for effective, practical and sustainable library assessment.
This biennial conference builds on the success of the first three conferences
held in Charlottesville (2006), Seattle (2008), and Baltimore (2010).
Proposal Topics
Proposals are invited as either papers or posters that cover
any aspect of library assessment. The Conference Planning Committee especially
encourages proposals in the following areas:
· Collaborative
assessment
· Digital
libraries
· Information
resources, collections, and e-metrics
· Learning
outcomes
· Management
information
· Methods
and tools
· Organizational
issues
· Performance
measurement and measures
· Return
on investment (ROI)
· Services
· Space
planning and use
· Special
collections
· Usability
· User
needs
· Value
and impact
Proposals accepted through Monday, April 2, 2012.
Complete Information
The Library Assessment Conference website (http://libraryassessment.org/) provides
complete information on proposal submission and the conference.
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The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) is a nonprofit
organization of 126 research libraries in the US and Canada. 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, facilitating the emergence of new roles for research libraries, and
shaping a future environment that leverages its interests with those of allied
organizations. ARL is on the web at http://www.arl.org/.
