Registration Now Open

Washington, DC— Online registration is now open for the 2012 ARL Statistics & Assessment Webcast Series, a set of free workshops designed to provide potential and current participants with vital information on the StatsQUAL® tools. Each workshop covers a variety of topics including the strategic aspects of a specific tool, the tool's development, objectives and goals for its implementation, promoting its purpose, analyzing results, and creating improvement strategies. This series of workshops highlights the impact of these tools in individual libraries as well as the tools' transformative agency in an environment where libraries are asked to demonstrate their value in new and innovative ways.

Guest speakers and key members of each tool’s support team, led by Martha Kyrillidou (Senior Director of ARL Statistics and Service Quality Programs), will host the webcasts, while providing first-hand context. A Q&A session will close each event.

Register online for one or more of the following:

LibQUAL+® Webcast
Tuesday, February 14
1:00–2:00 p.m. eastern

ClimateQUAL® Webcast
Tuesday, April 17
1:00–2:00 p.m. eastern

ARL Statistics® Webcast
Tuesday, June 5
1:00–2:00 p.m. eastern

MINES for Libraries® Webcast
Tuesday, September 18
1:00–2:00 p.m. eastern

Balanced Scorecard Webcast
Tuesday, December 11
1:00–2:00 p.m. eastern

There is no fee for attending these webcasts and they will be recorded and made freely available on ARL’s YouTube channel shortly after each live event.

StatsQUAL® is a gateway to library assessment tools that describe the role, character, and impact of physical and digital libraries. Through StatsQUAL®, libraries gain access to a number of resources that are used to assess library's effectiveness and contributions to teaching, learning, and research. StatsQUAL® presents these tools in a single powerful interactive framework that integrates and enhances data mining and presentation both within and across institutions. StatsQUAL® is on the web at http://www.statsqual.org/ .

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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