Academic library impact : improving practice and essential areas to research / Lynn Silipigni Connaway, William Harvey, Vanessa Kitzie, Stephanie Mikitish.

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Main Authors: Connaway, Lynn Silipigni (Author), Harvey, William (Software engineer) (Author), Kitzie, Vanessa (Author), Mikitish, Stephanie (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Chicago, Illinois : Association of College & Research Libraries, a division of the American Library Association, 2017.
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Table of 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.