Academic library impact : improving practice and essential areas to research

Book 2017

Now more than ever, academic libraries are being asked to demonstrate value to their institutional stakeholders, funders, and governance boards. Academic Library Impact builds on ACRL’s 2010 Value of Academic Libraries: A Comprehensive Research Review and Report and the results of the subsequent Assessment in Action program. It demonstrates how libraries are now measuring library contributions to student learning and success, and recommends where...

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Libraries and colleges United States

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ISBN:

9780838989760

Description:

ix, 124 pages : illustrations ; 28 cm

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 80-104)
Text in English

Contents:

Introduction : demonstrate your library's value. Communicate the library's contributions
Match library assessment to institution's mission
Include library data in institutional data collection
Quantify the library's impact on student success
Enhance teaching and learning
Collaborate with educational stakeholders
Using this report
Literature review. Evaluation and assessment literature
Learning and success
Measuring student learning and success outside the library
Relevant ACRL documents
Methods. Data collection
Data analysis
Findings. Selected LIS and higher education literature
Focus group interview
Provost semi-structured individual interviews
Comparing three data sources
Discussion
Priority areas for future research and effective practices
ACRL Framework agenda for student learning and success. Communicate the library's contributions
Match library assessment to institution's mission
Include library data in institutional data collection
Quantify the library's impact on student success
Enhance teaching and learning
Collaborate with educational stakeholders
Visualizing academic library impact : the ACRL/OCLC Literature Analysis Dashboard. Literature search tool
Charts and graphs tool
Administration and sandboxed content tagging
Usability testing
Searching the visualization component using the priority areas
Limitations
Conclusions

Control Number:

2408824

Other Authors:

Association of College and Research Libraries, issuing body
Harvey, William (Software engineer), author
Kitzie, Vanessa, author
Mikitish, Stephanie, author

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