Call for Proposals: ALCTS CMS Collection Evaluation and Assessment Interest Group at ALA Midwinter
The ALCTS CMS Collection
Evaluation and Assessment Interest Group invites speakers to participate
at the Collection Evaluation and Assessment Interest Group session at
the ALA Midwinter Meeting in Seattle on Sunday,
Jan. 27, 2013 from 1:00 pm - 2:30 pm.
The mission of the ALCTS
CMS Collection Evaluation and Assessment Interest Group is dedicated to
quantitative measures based on commonly defined data; managing
information resources and developing institutional
benchmarking; exploring, developing, and promoting the use of both
descriptive data and outcomes/impacts data.
The theme of the session
will be “Findings that surprised us”—an exploration of different case
studies in which people’s data findings were unexpected, and how they
used this data to shape their future work with
their collections.
Proposed sessions should
describe both how and why the data was gathered and how the data was
used to spark decisions/changes in collection development. Proposals on
both small and large scale findings are welcomed.
Presentations should be approximately 15-20 minutes in length.
Additional time will be allowed for questions and discussion.
Please send abstracts of proposals to Amelia Brunskill (abrunski@depaul.edu) by Friday, December 14, 2012 (previous deadline has been extended).
If you have questions, please contact us. We look forward to hearing from you!
Thanks so much,
Amelia Brunskill, chair of ALCTS CMS Collection Evaluation and Assessment Interest Group
Amelia Brunskill
Electronic Resources Librarian
DePaul University
2350 N. Kenmore Ave.
Chicago, IL 60614
