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What’s Counted and What Counts | Peer to Peer Review
Around this time of year, a lot of academic librarians engage in various outreach activities to introduce themselves to new students. Within a week of classes starting, I met with the new philosophy...
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Library Assessment as Check Mark | Not Dead Yet
Here’s an issue about which I’ve been hearing from colleagues quite a lot lately—that of libraries undertaking and carrying out assessment methods and then ignoring or “trumping” the findings by doing...
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CUNY Helps Libraries Take Stock
On June 6, the City University of New York (CUNY) held its first library assessment conference. Called Reinventing Libraries: Reinventing Assessment, the event grew from its initial target of 100...
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Data & Assessment in Academic Libraries – A free, three-part webcast series,...
Data & Assessment in Academic Libraries A free, three-part webcast series, developed in collaboration with Electronic Resources and Libraries (ER&L) Building on last year’s Data-Driven...
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What Gets You, and Keeps You, Going? | Not Dead Yet
A recent mailing from my library school alma mater (SUNY Albany) brought with it the realization that I’ve been a librarian for quite a long time (36 years and 6 months, to be precise, but who’s...
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Change for Researchers’ Sake | Not Dead Yet
If there’s one word I’d choose as the single most repeated term in libraries over the course of my career (thus far) it would be “change.” And that word has usually had a good connotation for me, since...
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Outcomes, Impacts, and Indicators
The Impact Survey was first used in 2009 to help gather data for the Opportunity for All study reports, conducted by the University of Washington’s iSchool with assistance from the Bill & Melinda...
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Assessing the Ambivalent Liaison | Peer to Peer Review
The drumbeat of assessment has become the cadence of higher education. In libraries, as with any organization, the managerial drive for metrics is reflexive. How do we know if we’re winning? How can we...
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Willie Miller | Movers & Shakers 2016 – Innovators
CURRENT POSITION Informatics and Journalism Librarian, Head of Campus Outreach Group, Indiana University – Purdue University Indianapolis DEGREE MLS, Indiana University, 2010 FOLLOW @LibraryWillie...
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Meaningful Measures | Assessment
National initiatives step into the gap on the urgent need to capture outcomes Measuring outcomes can be a vital aid to justifying library work to voters, funders, and stakeholders—as well as...
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