Library Assessment Conference

The Association of Research Libraries, the University of Virginia Library, and the University of Washington Libraries are pleased to announce the 2010 Library Assessment Conference: Building Effective, Sustainable, Practical Assessment, to be held in Baltimore, Maryland from October 25-27, 2010. The conference goal is to support and nurture the library assessment community through a mix of invited speakers, contributed papers and posters, workshops, and engaging discussion. The conference is geared toward library and information professionals and researchers with responsibility for or an interest in the broad field of library assessment with an emphasis on, but not limited to, North American academic libraries. This conference builds on the success of the first two conferences held in Charlottesville (2006) and Seattle (2008).

Thank you to all our sponsors for their support in building a strong library assessment community.

We are pleased to announce that the conference's five keynote speakers are confirmed:

Fred Heath: Library Service Quality
Joe Matthews: Performance Measures and Balanced Scorecard
Danuta Nitecki: Assessment of Library Spaces
Megan Oakleaf: Learning Outcomes and the Library
Stephen Town: Value and Impact

We encourage proposals on the five topics on which the keynote speakers will speak, in addition to the topics below.

2010 Conference Topics
Library assessment in the following areas:
Digital libraries
Information resources and collections
Learning and teaching
Management information
Methods and tools
Organizational issues
Performance measurement and measures
Return on investment (ROI)
Services
Space planning and utilization
Usability
Usage and e-metrics
User needs
Value and impact

A call for proposals has been issued. Conference registration will open Spring 2010. To join our ongoing discussion on library assessment issues, visit the library assessment blog or subscribe to arl-assess@arl.org.

We look forward to seeing you in Baltimore!

Conference co-chairs:
Steve Hiller, University of Washington Libraries
Martha Kyrillidou, Association of Research Libraries
Jim Self, University of Virginia

2010 Conference Planning Committee:
John Bertot, University of Maryland
Sam Kalb, Queen's University
Liz Mengel, Johns Hopkins University
Megan Oakleaf, Syracuse University
Kathy Perry, VIVA Consortium
Bill Potter, University of Georgia
Roberta Shaffer, Library of Congress
Agnes Tatarka, University of Chicago
Stephen Town, University of York (UK)