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If yes, please briefly describe with whom and how much detail about the results were shared.
We are posting survey results and analyses on public Web site, discussing survey in Library newsletters, and making
presentations to student and faculty committees.
ADDITIONAL COMMENTS
47. Please enter any additional information about impact measure studies at your library that may
assist the authors in accurately analyzing the results of this survey.
Although we’ve responded, “Have not studied and have no plans to study” for the measures investigated, that would
mean “no immediate plans.” We’re certainly interested in this sort of measure and may well opt to investigate in future.
Much of our assessment work to date relates to LibQUAL+®. Though we have used other instruments as well, we are
in the process of developing a more formal approach to our assessment efforts.
The library will likely do some of this in the future.
The University Libraries are currently in the process of searching for a new director, thus many of the questions on the
survey indicating that we have no plans could change when the new person arrives. I fully expect that we will undertake
many of these efforts in the coming year, but cannot answer definitively until the new leadership arrives. I would be
happy to provide more information in the fall, once the leadership changes and we have a better sense of priorities and
directions. The Libraries highlighted contributions to faculty research in a recent issue of our newsletter, Access. That
issue included a progress report for the Libraries as well as a profile of a distinguished research speaking about the
contributions of library resources to her research. See http://library.buffalo.edu/libraries/PDFs/access/Access_2009_fall.
pdf (pages 4–6 and 8–15).
Two prizes indirectly move us in the direction of correlating impact — UCLA Library Prize for Undergraduate Research:
The UCLA Library Prize for Undergraduate Research is a new prize honoring the best research produced by UCLA
undergraduate students. Two first-place awards will be given in the amount of $700, one for upper division students
and one for lower division students. Additional awards may be made at the judges’ discretion. University Librarian’s
Undergraduate Fellowship: The University Librarian’s Undergraduate Fellowship is a new fellowship open exclusively
to undergraduate students working on departmental honors projects or other comprehensive research projects in any
department in the College Division of Humanities and the School of the Arts and Architecture as well as the Department
of History and the Department of Women’s Studies. Twenty $500 stipends will be given. Note additionally, impact
measures as discussed in the WASC accreditation (educational effectiveness) and work of the University of California
Undergraduate Experience Survey (UCUES) http://cshe.berkeley.edu/research/seru/ucues.htm. UCUES is a census UC-
wide survey of over 160,000 undergraduates within the UC system’s nine undergraduate campuses. An article from the
UCLA Daily Bruin on WASC is helpful: http://www.dailybruin.com/articles/2010/3/1/review-prompts-change-ucla/.
We are cognizant of the importance of determining impact measures, however, we are still at the stage of gathering
best practices and creating a strategy to assess impact measures over the next 12–24 months. As noted, an Assessment
work team is currently examining this issue and will be reporting to Library Administration this summer with a strategy
regarding Assessment (in general), and Impact Measures (specifically).
If yes, please briefly describe with whom and how much detail about the results were shared.
We are posting survey results and analyses on public Web site, discussing survey in Library newsletters, and making
presentations to student and faculty committees.
ADDITIONAL COMMENTS
47. Please enter any additional information about impact measure studies at your library that may
assist the authors in accurately analyzing the results of this survey.
Although we’ve responded, “Have not studied and have no plans to study” for the measures investigated, that would
mean “no immediate plans.” We’re certainly interested in this sort of measure and may well opt to investigate in future.
Much of our assessment work to date relates to LibQUAL+®. Though we have used other instruments as well, we are
in the process of developing a more formal approach to our assessment efforts.
The library will likely do some of this in the future.
The University Libraries are currently in the process of searching for a new director, thus many of the questions on the
survey indicating that we have no plans could change when the new person arrives. I fully expect that we will undertake
many of these efforts in the coming year, but cannot answer definitively until the new leadership arrives. I would be
happy to provide more information in the fall, once the leadership changes and we have a better sense of priorities and
directions. The Libraries highlighted contributions to faculty research in a recent issue of our newsletter, Access. That
issue included a progress report for the Libraries as well as a profile of a distinguished research speaking about the
contributions of library resources to her research. See http://library.buffalo.edu/libraries/PDFs/access/Access_2009_fall.
pdf (pages 4–6 and 8–15).
Two prizes indirectly move us in the direction of correlating impact — UCLA Library Prize for Undergraduate Research:
The UCLA Library Prize for Undergraduate Research is a new prize honoring the best research produced by UCLA
undergraduate students. Two first-place awards will be given in the amount of $700, one for upper division students
and one for lower division students. Additional awards may be made at the judges’ discretion. University Librarian’s
Undergraduate Fellowship: The University Librarian’s Undergraduate Fellowship is a new fellowship open exclusively
to undergraduate students working on departmental honors projects or other comprehensive research projects in any
department in the College Division of Humanities and the School of the Arts and Architecture as well as the Department
of History and the Department of Women’s Studies. Twenty $500 stipends will be given. Note additionally, impact
measures as discussed in the WASC accreditation (educational effectiveness) and work of the University of California
Undergraduate Experience Survey (UCUES) http://cshe.berkeley.edu/research/seru/ucues.htm. UCUES is a census UC-
wide survey of over 160,000 undergraduates within the UC system’s nine undergraduate campuses. An article from the
UCLA Daily Bruin on WASC is helpful: http://www.dailybruin.com/articles/2010/3/1/review-prompts-change-ucla/.
We are cognizant of the importance of determining impact measures, however, we are still at the stage of gathering
best practices and creating a strategy to assess impact measures over the next 12–24 months. As noted, an Assessment
work team is currently examining this issue and will be reporting to Library Administration this summer with a strategy
regarding Assessment (in general), and Impact Measures (specifically).
