Academic library impact : improving practice and essential areas to research / Lynn Silipigni Connaway, William Harvey, Vanessa Kitzie, Stephanie Mikitish.
Publisher:
Association of College & Research Librariesa division of the American Library Association,
Includes bibliographical references (pages 80-104).
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.
Summary:
RL’s Value of Academic Libraries initiative and for the profession. -- ‡c From publisher's description. ited and reviewed, http://www.oclc.org/content/dam/research/themes/works-cited.pdf. All components were produced in partnership with OCLC Research and include analyses of library and information science (LIS) and higher education literature, focus group interviews and brainstorming sessions with academic library administrators at different institution types within the United States, and individual interviews with provosts. Building on established best practices and recent research, Academic Library Impact clearly identifies priority areas and suggests specific actions for academic librarians and administrators to take in developing programs, collections, and spaces focused on student learning and success. It includes effective practices, calls out exemplary studies, and indicates where more inquiry is needed, with proposed research designs. It identifies the next generation of necessary research to continue to testify to library value. This new report is a significant milestone for ACcollection -- 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. RL’s Value of Academic Libraries initiative and for the profession. -- ‡c From publisher's description.
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