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Washington, DC—The Association of Research Libraries has released a free recording of the ClimateQUAL® Webcast , held on April 17, 2012.

The webcast is designed to provide potential and current participants with practical information for administering a survey, to help participants with interpreting the data and its analysis, and to share best practices in using the results.

The webcast features Paul Hanges (Maryland), the lead researcher of the ClimateQUAL® protocol, and David Green (ARL), who highlights important implementation steps. Jay Schafer and Dianna Williams (Massachusetts), Jean Zanoni (Marquette), and Sue Baughman (ARL) discuss the drivers of this assessment and follow-up actions based on the survey results. Martha Kyrillidou (ARL) hosts and facilitates the event. Q&A is interspersed throughout the workshop.

The ClimateQUAL® 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 ClimateQUAL®: Organizational Climate and Diversity Assessment (OCDA) protocol captures staff perceptions concerning the organization’s commitment to the principles of diversity, staff perceptions of organizational policies and procedures, and staff attitudes through a standardized survey tool. The Association of Research Libraries, in partnership with the University of Maryland Industrial/Organizational Psychology Program, offers this protocol to the library community. This assessment service currently has more than 40 partner libraries across the US, Canada, and UK. ClimateQUAL® is on the web at http://www.climatequal.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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