Conference Program

Making it Count: Opportunities and Challenges for Library Assessment

Time Event Description Location
8:30 - 9:00 Registration Continental breakfast Lobby + Gallery
9:00 - 9:15 Welcome

Tom Leonard, University Librarian, UC Berkeley

 

 Theater
9:15 - 10:00 Opening Keynote

Steve Hiller, Director of Assessment and Planning, University of Washington Libraries
Library Assessment Overview (Powerpoint slides)

 

 Theater
10:00 - 10:15 Break

 

 Lobby + Gallery
10:15 - 12:15 Panel Discussion
  • Joanne Miller, Strategic and Project Planning (California Digital Library)
    What is UC Keeping? (Powerpoint slides)
  • Lyn Paleo (Evaluation Research and Training)
    What do librarians need to know (but don’t) about assessment? (Powerpoint slides)
  • Merrilee Proffitt, Senior Program Officer (OCLC Research)
    Assessing Special Collections (Powerpoint slides)
  • Lynn Jones, Moderator, UC Berkeley
 Theater
12:15 - 1:30 Lunch + Poster Session
  • Elizabeth McMunn-Tetangco, Susan Mikkelsen, Sara Davidson (UC Merced)
    What influences students to use scholarly sources (Poster PDF)
  • Janet Martorana, Eunice Schroeder, Christopher Granatino (UCSB)
    Assessing Preferences for Collections Access (Poster PDF)
  • Elaine Franco (UC Davis)
    Making Copy Cataloging Count (Poster PDF)
  • Cynthia Johnson, Christina Woo (UC Irvine)
    Better ways to count reference, in order to count on reference (Poster PDF)
  • Suzanne Im, Yolanda Blue, Angela Boyd(UCSB)
    Assessing residents past and present: an evidence-based approach for developing a library residency program (Poster PDF)

 

 Lobby + Gallery + 2nd Floor Terrace
1:30 - 2:15 Lightning Talks

Each lightning talk will serve as a summary or preview of a longer talk to be given during the breakout concurrent sessions that follow.

  • Stephanie Rosenblatt (Cerritos College) and April Cunningham (Saddleback College)
    Small Data Assessment and Action Research (Powerpoint slides)
  • Adam Siegel (UC Davis)
    FutureQual: How to keep ARL rankings relevant (Powerpoint slides)
  • Lynn Jones and Susan Edwards (UC Berkeley)
    Every number tells a story: using data to make collection decisions (Powerpoint slides)
  • Joe Cera and Michael Lindsey (UC Berkeley)
    Evaluating institutional repository statistics inside and outside the institution (Adobe Connect presentation)

(Adobe Connect presentation)

 Theater
2:30 - 3:15 Concurrent Sessions
Stephanie Rosenblatt (Cerritos College) and April Cunningham (Saddleback College)
Small Data Assessment and Action Research		 Theater
Adam Siegel (UC Davis)
FutureQual: How to keep ARL rankings relevant		 Kinzie West
Lynn Jones and Susan Edwards (UC Berkeley)
Every number tells a story: using data to make collection decisions		 Tamalpais
Joe Cera and Michael Lindsey (UC Berkeley)
Evaluating institutional repository statistics inside and outside the institution		 Kinzie East
3:15 - 3:30 Break Coffee & snacks Lobby + Gallery
3:30 - 4:15 Closing Keynote

David Fetterman, President & CEO, Fetterman & Associates
Empowerment Assessment (PDF slides)

 

 Theater
4:15 - 5:15 Reception Light refreshments 2nd Floor Terrace