Registration Now Open for 2021 Library Assessment Conference - Free Virtual Session on Measurement and Methods

 The Association of Research Libraries is hosting a free webinar on January as part of its 2021 Library Assessment Conference. The theme is "Measurement and Methods".

Topics covered will include:

• Assessing library contributions and impact across the research lifecycle: a collaborative approach
• Where do we go from here : managing collection moves with data visualization
• Search, Report, Wherever You Are: A Novel Approach to Assessing User Satisfaction with a Library Discovery Interface
• From Analyzing Abundant Data to Identifying Actionable Steps: A Closer Look at Library Student Data and Success
• Have library users’ expectations decreased? A statistical comparison of LibQUAL+ scores for Affect of Service, Information Control, and Library as Place over the past two decades
• What Does It Take? Evidence-based strategies for student survey engagement
• Secret Shopping as a Method to Understand User Experience: A Case Study
• Unraveling the (search) string: Assessing library discovery layers using patron queries
• The CARL library impact toolkit project: An overview
• Practical service design blueprinting: using service design techniques in a library task force
• So, what now? Moving through tensions to practice in critical library assessment
• D is for Data: A critical interrogation of the basic building blocks of assessment

The 2020–21 Library Assessment Conference is being offered as free monthly webinars through March.

The Conference is co-hosted by the Association of Research Libraries (ARL) and the University of Washington Libraries. It brings together interested practitioners and researchers who have responsibility in the broad field of library assessment. 

ARL members include major universities, federal government agencies, and large public institutions in the US and Canada (University of Alberta, UBC, University of Calgary, Laval, University of Manitoba, McGill, McMaster, University of Ottawa, Queen's, University of Saskatchewan, Simon Fraser, University of Toronto, Waterloo, Western, and York).