The Association of Research Libraries has announced that the proceedings of the 2008 Library Assessment Conference, 'Building Effective, Sustainable, Practical Assessment,' are now freely available on the web and for purchase in print or on CD-ROM.
This second Library Assessment Conference, following the successful 2006 conference, brought together over 375 participants from libraries, information schools, associations, library systems, and vendors for four days of assessment presentations, poster sessions, discussions, and workshops. The proceedings contain more than 60 papers spanning assessment activities in libraries, information literacy, library as place, organisational culture, management information, using assessment data for change, assessment methods, reference evaluation, LibQUAL+, statistical data, program impact/evaluation, usability, e-metrics, and more.
A detailed overview of the proceedings content and the PDF version are available online at http://www.libraryassessment.org/. The third Library Assessment Conference will be held in Baltimore, Maryland, October 25-27, 2010.
