Library Assessment Conference — Building Effective, Sustainable, Practical Assessment

The in-person 2020 Library Assessment Conference has been canceled. Instead of an in-person event, conference organizers will hold a series of free virtual sessions between October 29, 2020 and March 17, 2021. All accepted papers will be published as part of the conference proceedings and poster presentations will be made available on the conference website.

Virtual paper sessions will be held monthly between October 29, 2020 and March 17, 2021. Sessions will be conducted via Zoom webinars and each session will consist of 8–10 presentations on a common theme. Presentations will be 10–15 minutes each, followed by a 5 minute Q&A, for a total of no more than 20 minutes.

Paper proceedings and poster presentations will be made available on the conference website.

The conference will not offer workshops this year, due to the difficulty of running interactive, participatory workshops in an online setting, and with the recognition that it is likely that many potential attendees are already experiencing fatigue from extended online work amidst challenging work situations.

To acknowledge the accepted workshops and the significant work authors put into their proposals, we are highlighting their work and encourage them to offer these programs in other venues.

These awards recognize individuals who have made substantial contributions to effective, sustainable, and practical library assessment as evidenced through presentations, publications, methods, service, advocacy, and other work. The 2018 award recipients were Bill Wilson and Ethel Himmel and Steve Hiller.

Travel Awards are offered to students and early-career professionals from historically underrepresented racial and ethnic groups who have demonstrated a strong interest in assessment and have the potential to contribute to the profession by deploying and developing innovative assessment and evaluation methods and strategies.