Fifteen articles about a range of assessment activities in academic libraries are featured in the latest issue of Evidence Based Library and Information Practice (EBLIP vol. 8, no. 2). An editorial by Martha Kyrillidou and Damon Jaggars summarises the themes of these papers selected from the 2010 Library Assessment Conference proceedings.
The third biennial Library Assessment Conference was hosted by ARL, University of Washington Libraries, and University of Virginia Library in Baltimore, Maryland, in October 2010. The event attracted more than 450 participants and featured almost 70 peer-reviewed papers and keynote presentations. The Library Assessment Conference series builds upon ARL's rich history of describing research libraries with the ARL Statistics collection and, more recently, the qualitative ARL Profiles. The conference advances the cause of data-driven decision making by engaging the academic and research library community in active discussion of strategic issues that demonstrate the value of the library.
The next Library Assessment Conference will be hosted by ARL and University of Washington Libraries in Seattle on August 4–6, 2014.
