The Library Assessment Conference was a jointly produced experience of the Association of Research Libraries and the University of Washington Libraries from 2006 through 2024, along with the University of Virginia Library from 2006 through 2012. This website serves as a historical reference for the library assessment community to access shared resources and papers from past conferences.
The Association of Research Libraries will launch a new, biennial, multi-track conference experience showcasing the impact of research libraries—IMPACT: Research Library Summit—in the summer of 2028. More details will be announced in early 2026. Please reach out to events@arl.org with questions.
Past Conferences
Conference papers, posters, and other materials from all past conference are available on the Past Conferences page.
LibPMC International Conference on Performance Measurement in Libraries
The International Conference on Performance Measurement in Libraries (UK based) is the sister conference to the Library Assessment Conference (US based). The collaboration between the two events started in October 2000 when organizers of the ARL symposium on “The New Culture of Assessment in Academic Libraries: Measuring Library Service Quality” invited the organizers of the UK event to join and present at the symposium in Washington, DC. The relationship was strengthened when the 4th International Conference was organized by ARL in Pittsburgh, PA, as an IFLA preconference, in 2001. The Pittsburgh event experience was the foundation upon which the Library Assessment Conference built upon in 2006 supported by ARL, the University of Virginia, and the University of Washington. Since 2006, the two sister conferences have made the commitment to organize their events in alternate years.