Building Capacity for Demonstrating the Value of Academic Libraries:An Update on ACRL’s IMLS Funded Project

CNI Project BriefingTuesday, December 13, 2011, 10:30-11:30 a.m.

Joyce L. OgburnACRL President, Dean, J. Willard Marriott Library and University Librarian, University of Utah

Mary Ellen K. DavisACRL Executive Director

Kara J. Malenfant ACRL Scholarly Communications and Government Relations Specialist

National Context

National Higher Ed Responses

The Value of Academic Libraries: An ACRL Initiative

http://www.acrl.ala.org/value/

ACRL’s IMLS Grant

Building Capacity for Demonstrating the Value of Academic Libraries

“We’ve Got Your Back”View from the CAOs

“Ask the Right Question”View from Institutional Researchers

“It’s About Relationships, Not Data”View from Higher Ed Assessment

“It’s All About Student Learning”View from Accreditors

Diverse Student Needs• Attention = retention• Understand learning• Job and a career• May not value basic

skills• Many variables in how

students learn• Underprepared• Cohorts and learning

communities

Perceptions of Faculty

Library Opportunities/Challenges

Goal 1: Relationship-building

Goal 2: Data Types/Sources

Goal 3: Professional Competencies

Goal 4: Awareness of Library Contributions

Where Do We Go From Here?

Open Discussion

• Challenges: What concerns you about libraries working in these areas?

• Excitement: What excites you about libraries working in these areas?

• ACRL: What can ACRL do to support librarians?