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The Value of
Academic
Libraries
Megan Oakleaf
Lisa Janicke HinchliffeValue of Academic Libraries Forum
ALA Midwinter, January 2011
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Context for Value?
Few libraries exist in a vacuum,
accountable only to themselves. There is
always a larger context for assessing
library quality, that is, what and how well
does the library contribute to achieving the
overall goals of the parent constituencies?
(S. Pritchard 1996)
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Prove It!Not only do
stakeholders count
on higher education
institutions to
achieve their
missions, they also
require them to
demonstrate
evidence that they
have achieved
them.
The same is
true for
academic
libraries; they
too can provide
evidence of their
value.
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Scope• Goals
– a clear view of the current state of the literature on value of
libraries within an institutional context,
– suggestions for immediate Next Steps in the
demonstration of academic library value, and
– a Research Agenda for articulating academic library value.
It strives to help librarians understand, based on
professional literature, the current answer to the question,
How does the library advance the missions of the
institution?
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Lessons Learned
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Value
Use
Return-on-Investment
CommodityLibrary Impact
Competing Alternatives
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Methodology
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The Team
Assistant Researchers
• Patricia L. Owen
• Leah Sopchak
• Anna Dahlstein
• Tamika Barnes
Advisory Committee
• Debra Gilchrist
• Bruce Kingma
• Martha Kyrillidou
• George Kuh
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Next Steps
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Define
outcomes.
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C Impact!
Library
Contributions
in the form of
Resources &
Services
Campus
Needs,
Goals, &
Outcomes
Library
Assessment &
Record Keeping
Documented
Impact
Oakleaf, Megan. Are They Learning? Are We? Learning and
the Academic Library. Library Quarterly. In press. 2011.
Create or adopt systems
for assessment
management.
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Institution
Arts & Sciences
Learning Outcomes
Evaluation of Evidence
Library
Something Else
Learning Outcomes
Define Info Need
Search Evaluate
Eng 101
Professor Smith
Librarian ALibrarian B
Professor Jones
Study Abroad
Collection Goals
Development Targets
Create or adopt systems
for assessment
management.
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Determine
what libraries
enable
students,
faculty, student
affairs
professionals,
administrators,
and staff to do.
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Develop systems
to collect data on individual
library user behavior, while
maintaining privacy.
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Use existing data.
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Record and increase
library impact on
student enrollment.
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Link libraries to
improved student
retention and
graduation rates.
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Enhance library
contribution to
student job success.
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Track library
influences on
increased
student
achievement.
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Demonstrate and
develop library
impact on student
learning.
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Review & determine
the impact of course
content, readings,
reserves, and
assignments.
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Document and augment library
advancement of student experiences,
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Track and increase library contributions to
faculty research productivity.
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Continue to
investigate
library impact on
faculty grant
proposals and
funding, a
means of
generating
institutional
income.
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Demonstrate and improve library
support of faculty teaching.
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Record and
share library
contributions to
overall
institutional
reputation and
prestige.
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Participate in
higher education
assessment
initiatives…
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…including
accreditation
processes.
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Appoint liaison librarians to
support senior institutional
leadership and/or offices of
assessment or institutional
research.
I can help! I am a librarian and an expert in
finding the information you need to make
decisions!
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Create library assessment plans.
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Promote and
participate in
professional
development.
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Mobilize library administrators.
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Mobilize library professional associations.
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Available at:
www.acrl.ala.org/value
Commissioned by:
Begin…
by reading the
report!
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Use the checklist to get a
handle on
where you’re at
and
where you need to go!
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Then, help pursue
the Research Agenda!
1. student enrollment
2. student retention & graduation
3. student success
4. student achievement
5. student learning
6. student experience
7. faculty research productivity
8. faculty grants
9. faculty teaching
10. institutional reputation
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Research Agenda Structure
For each
Essential
Question…
Surrogates for Library Impact
Data Sources
Potential Correlations
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Example of Surrogate &
Potential Correlations
How does the library contribute to faculty research productivity?
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Starting points for research…• Recruitment of
prospective students
• Matriculation of
admitted students
• Recommendation of
current students
• Fall-to-fall retention
• Graduation rates
• Internship success
• Job placement
• Job salaries
• Professional/graduat
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• Marketable skills
• GPA
• Professional/educati
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• Learning
assessments
• Faculty judgments
• Self-report
engagement studies
• Senior/alumni studies
• Help surveys
• Alumni donations
• Number of
publications, number
of patents, value of
technology transfer
• Tenure/promotion
judgments
• Number of grant
proposals (funded or
unfunded)
• Value of grants
funded
• Integration of library
resources and
services into course
syllabi, websites,
• lectures, labs, texts,
reserve readings, etc.
• Faculty/librarian
collaborations;
cooperative
curriculum,
assignment, or
• assessment design
• Faculty recruitment
• Institutional rankings
• Community
engagement
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Questions
Comments
Discussion