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The ARL Library Scorecard Initiative
arl-library-scorecard-initiative.pdf
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SPEC Kit 318: Impact Measures in Research Libraries (September 2010)
SPEC Kit 318 explores the tools and methods libraries use to gauge the difference they make for their user community, the topics assessment practitioners probe and the results they obtain,...
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Research Library Issues, no. 271 (Aug. 2010): Special Issue on Value in Libraries: Assessing Organizational Performance
RLI issue 271 includes: Library Value May Be Proven, If Not Self-Evident A Decade of Assessment at a Research-Extensive University Library Using LibQUAL+® LibQUAL+® and the “Library as Place” at the...
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SPEC Kit 316: Evaluating E-resources (July 2010)
SPEC Kit 316 re-examines the ways in which ARL member libraries have (re)structured themselves to identify the availability of new e-resources in the market; evaluate them as candidates for acquisition;...
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Research Library Issues, no. 262 (Feb. 2009)
RLI issue 262 includes the following articles: The University's Role in the Dissemination of Research and Scholarship: A Call to Action ARL Statement to Scholarly Publishers on the Global Economic...
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MINES for Libraries Final Report
This final report of a ground-breaking study summarizes findings on 34,000 randomly captured uses of electronic resources over a 12-month period from the 21 members of the Ontario Council of...
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ARL Partners in Grant to Study Value of Academic Libraries
A grant to study the value of academic libraries to students, faculty, policy makers, funders, and others has been awarded by the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) to...
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The Library as Strategic Investment
Presented at "ARL Lib-Value: Return on Investment (ROI) for Academic Libraries Workshop." lib-value-kaufman.pdf
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ARL Profiles: Emerging Themes
arl-profiles-rllf-report.pdf