The conference goal is to build and further a vibrant library assessment community by bringing together interested practitioners and researchers who have responsibility or interest in the broad field of library assessment. The conference provides a mix of invited speakers, contributed papers and posters, and workshops that stimulate discussion and provide workable ideas for effective, practical and sustainable library assessment. This biennial conference builds on the success of the first six conferences held in Charlottesville, Virginia (2006, 2012); Seattle, Washington (2008, 2014); Baltimore, Maryland (2010); Arlington, Virginia (2016), and Houston, Texas (2018).
Sponsors
Many thanks to our sponsors for their support in building a strong library assessment community.
Local Info
The 2020 Library Assessment Conference will be held at The Westin O’Hare in Rosemont, Illinois.
Steering Committee
Sue Baughman
Conference Co-Chair, Association of Research Libraries
Jackie Belanger
University of Washington
Elizabeth Edwards
University of Chicago
Brian Keith
University of Florida
Martha Kyrillidou
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; QualityMetrics, LLC
Klara Maidenberg
University of Toronto
Megan Oakleaf
Syracuse University
Angela Pappalardo
Association of Research Libraries
Maurini Strub
University of Rochester
Frankie Wilson
University of Oxford
Past Conferences
Proceedings and schedules are available for all past conferences, from 2006 to 2018.
Conference Hosts
The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) is a nonprofit organization of 124 research libraries in the US and Canada. ARL’s mission is to influence the changing environment of scholarly communication and the public policies that affect research libraries and the diverse communities they serve. ARL pursues this mission by advancing the goals of its member research libraries, providing leadership in public and information policy to the scholarly and higher education communities, fostering the exchange of ideas and expertise, facilitating the emergence of new roles for research libraries, and shaping a future environment that leverages its interests with those of allied organizations. ARL is on the web at ARL.org.
The University of Washington (UW) Libraries, located in Seattle, is the largest library in the Pacific Northwest. The UW Libraries is well-known for its innovative programs and services in assessment, organizational development, user spaces, and institutional collaboration. Its print and digital collections support world-class research and scholarship in such areas as health sciences, environmental sciences, area and language studies, and the Pacific Northwest. UW Libraries is on the web at http://www.lib.washington.edu/.