For immediate release: January 25, 2013

For more information, contact: Amy Yeager Association of Research Libraries 202-296-2296 amy@arl.org

Washington, DC—The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) has released a YouTube video of the Balanced Scorecard Webcast, held on December 11, 2012. The presentation covers the strategic aspects of the scorecard, its development and objectives, goals for its implementation, promoting its purpose, and analyzing results. It also describes ways to create improvement strategies based on the experiences of a number of ARL libraries engaged in the ARL Scorecard Initiative.

The webcast features the work of the most recent group of libraries to implement the balanced scorecard for their strategy development, management, and measurement efforts: Florida State University, New York University, University of Calgary, and Case Western Reserve University. It also includes an update on the experiences of McMaster University, one of the earlier participants in this initiative, and highlights aspects of the implementation from which other libraries can benefit as they engage in strategy development. The presenters were Mark Cutler of Ascendant Strategy Management Group, Rachel Besara and Michelle Demeter of Florida State University, Mary McConnell of the University of Calgary, Nina Servizzi of New York University, Gina Midlik of Case Western Reserve University, and Vivian Lewis of McMaster University.

A number of ARL libraries have expressed interest in forming another cohort to implement the balanced scorecard. A call for participation will be issued during the week of January 28.

The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) is a nonprofit organization of 125 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/.