Overview

It’s up to you to measure the value of your academic library and how it delivers on your institution’s goals. The question is how to do it efficiently and effectively. This resource from Megan Oakleaf, who wrote a benchmark 2010 ACRL report on library value, will help you apply value and impact concepts to your own library. It includes 52 activities designed as part of professional development workshops and in consultation with libraries. By using this book, you’ll learn how to identify your stakeholders, listen to them, take new approaches to addressing value, and ultimately position your library as an increasingly valued asset. The activities inside will guide you through such key issues as stakeholder views of library servicescapes; institutional communications audit; assessment fears, challenges, and barriers; impact on student retention; involving the entire library organization; and reporting the results. This kit will help academic libraries measure their existing value while also identifying ways to increase their value in the context of their institutional missions.

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Author:   Megan Oakleaf
Publisher:   American Library Association
Imprint:   ALA Editions
ISBN:  

9780838915929

ISBN 10:   0838915922
Pages:   232
Publication Date:   30 September 2017
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Available To Order  
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Table of Contents

Preface How to Use this Book First Things First Activity #1: Institutional Focus Areas Listening To Stakeholders Activity #2: Stakeholders as the Heart of the Institution Activity #3: Stakeholder Role Play Activity #4: Stakeholder Questions Activity #5: Stakeholder Card Sort Activity #6: Stakeholder Help Study Activity #7: Stakeholder Views of Library Servicescapes Activity #8: Institutional Communications Audit Activity #9: Institutional Program Review & Accreditation Audit Activity #10: Institutional Learning Outcomes Audit Activity #11: Higher Education Assessment Initiatives Audit Planning For Action Activity #12: Library Data Audit Activity #13: Time Audit Activity #14: Self Audit Activity #15: Job Task Audit Activity #16: Job Description Audit Activity #17: Committee Audit Activity #18: Management Audit Activity #19: Skill Audit Activity #20: Professional Development Plan Activity #21: Planning for Organizational Change Activity #22: Planning Timeline for Change Activity #23: Assessment Questions for Prospective Library Hires Activity #24: To Assess or Not to Assess? Activity #25: Assessment Fears, Challenges, & Barriers Focusing On Impact Activity #26: Library Impact Map Activity #27: Present and Future Library Impact Activity #28: Passive-to-Active Impact Activity #29: Impact Vision Creation Activity #30: Impact on Student Learning Outcomes Activity #31: Impact on Student Retention Activity #32: Impact on Faculty Productivity Activity #33: Impact on Institutional Efficiency Activity #34: Impact on Institutional Prestige & Brand Activity #35: Thinking Impact Through Activity #36: Keeping Impact Simple Getting To Work Activity #37: Planning for Assessment Activity #38: Gathering Library Impact Literature Activity #39: Engaging the Assessment Cycle Activity #40: Preparing a Continuous Assessment Timeline Activity #41: Involving the Entire Library Organization Activity #42: Approaching Institutional Research Collaborations Activity #43: Approaching Human Subjects Research Activity #44: Selecting Assessment Tools Activity #45: Choosing Assessment or Research Activity #46: Planning Partnerships Activity #47: Considering Assessment Management Systems Communicating & Decision-Making Activity #48: Reporting Results Activity #49: Managing the Message Activity #50: Transforming Library Fact Sheets Activity #51: Closing the Loop Activity #52: Articulating the Institutional Value of the Library

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Megan Oakleaf is an Associate Professor in the Syracuse University iSchool. The author of ACRL’s Value of Academic Libraries Comprehensive Review and Report, she has published in several library and information science journals including College and Research Libraries, Portal, JASIST, and Journal of Documentation. She has presented at numerous conferences, including ALA, ACRL, AAC&U, and AALHE national conferences, the Library Assessment Conference, the IUPUI Assessment Institute, and EDUCAUSE. She won the 2011 Ilene Rockman Publication of the Year award, was included in the LIRT Top 20 Instruction Articles five times, earned Best Paper recognition at the 2007 EBLIP conference, and was awarded the 2014 Jeffrey Katzer Teacher of the Year award. Her research areas include library value, learning analytics, rubric assessment, and information literacy instruction.

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