Free Video on ARL’s YouTube Channel

Washington, DC—The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) has released a YouTube video of the ARL Statistics® Webcast , held on June 5, 2012.

The webcast informs survey coordinators and library staff about the nature of descriptive research library statistics, demonstrates how ARL members and nonmember libraries can access the ARL Statistics® data, and shares how data can be used to make a case for your library. The webcast also unveils some of the upcoming changes to the ARL annual surveys and discusses the benefits of these changes.

Martha Kyrillidou (ARL) hosts the event, provides context for ARL Statistics®, and presents the survey revisions. Shaneka Morris (ARL) provides details on the capabilities of the ARL Statistics® website and the Analytics tool. Steve Hiller (Washington) and Jim Self (Virginia) present case studies on applying ARL Statistics® data at their institutions for budget justification. Q&A is interspersed throughout the webcast.

The ARL Statistics® Webcast is part of the 2012 ARL Statistics & Assessment Webcast Series. For more information on the other events in the series, please view our press release .

The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) is a nonprofit organization of 126 research libraries in the US and Canada. Its 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 http://www.arl.org/ .

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