Utah Academic Library Consortium (UALC)

 

 

UALC's Spring 2004 Presentation

 

 

Developing a Culture of Assessment: 
Real World Strategies and Scenarios 

 

See Powerpoint and Video Archive

 

By 

Juli Hinz 
Assistant Director for Public Service, Marriott Library, University of Utah

 

 and

 

Jim Shedlock
Director, Galter Health Sciences Library, Northwestern University

 

Friday March 26, 2004

1:30 to 3:30 PM 

Eccles Health Sciences Library
History of Medicine Room (upstairs)

University Of Utah

 

 

About the Presentation:  

Libraries are increasingly being asked to show how our efforts and resources are impacting learning, teaching, and research outcomes in higher education.  Parent institutions, legislatures, accrediting agencies, the public, donors, and importantly, our users, are asking us to pay attention to user needs, to shape our services and resources to meet those needs, and to find ways to measure outcomes to evaluate how we are doing.  By listening to users, caring about the impacts of our efforts and investments, and collecting and analyzing quantitative and qualitative data, we can all create a continuous "culture of assessment" in our libraries where decisions and priorities focus on users. This program will address the importance of assessment and how to make it a core component of library operations.

 

Live and Interactive Web Broadcast:

This event will be broadcast live on the Web via video. Click here to view the live Web broadcast (http://medlib.med.utah.edu/ram/ualc/workshop.ram )  on March 26 at 1:30 PM. Remote or Web video attendees may interact with presenters through the following toll free telephone number, or via the following email address:

 

Bring a Friend or Colleague: 
UALC events offer an important opportunity to meet and network with other academic librarians. 

 

Parking and Driving Instructions:  
Go to http://www-medlib.med.utah.edu/library/aboutus/howtofindus.html for maps and instructions on how to get to Eccles. The multilevel visitor parking structure behind the Biomedical Polymers Building is often the best place to park. See http://www-medlib.med.utah.edu/library/aboutus/maps/bigmap.html. From this parking structure walk a half block north and west, past the construction site, to the west facing entrance of Eccles Library. 

 

Questions:  
Please address any questions or concerns regarding this session to any member of the UALC Professional Development Committee. For  a list of committee members, see: http://faculty.weber.edu/chansen/UALCPD/profdev.htm.

 

Video Archive:

A video archive of this presentation will be made available a few days after the event via the UALC web site (http://www.ualc.net).