44 · Survey Results: Survey Questions And Responses
We are in the process of hiring a new dean of university libraries, and all candidates interview thus far have expressed a
desire to conduct studies of this nature, so it is expected our local practices will change over the next year. Additionally,
the university is transitioning to a responsibility centered management budget process and the library will be compelled
to provide more information on impact.
We are interested in assessing the impact of the library and are cognizant of some of the studies that have been done.
We do not have specific plans to do any such studies in the next 12 months. However, we will be undertaking some of
these types of studies beyond 12 months from now.
We are just at the beginning stages of investigating impact measures and how they could be used to quantify the many
benefits that libraries provide. We look forward to the SPEC Kit that will provide much useful information to us.
We are just in the early stages of conducting these types of impact measure studies at our library, but we think they
have great value and we intend to do more of them.
We are very early in our exploration of this area. We have had much discussion and some planning and think-paper
projects, but still need to explore this in real terms.
We do have an interest in measuring impact we are currently implementing a significant reorganization and preparing
to move into a new facility. We are interested in learning more about Impact studies at other ARL institutions as we do
wish to study the impact of our efforts but do not think these studies will occur within the next twelve months.
While we are very interested in assessment, any studies that involve correlative data and students are very difficult to
collect at an institution of this size.
While we very much wish to measure impact, methods for reliably doing so remain elusive. We monitor with interest
the efforts of colleagues and look forward to the results of the recently launched ARL initiative to measure return on
investment.
We are in the process of hiring a new dean of university libraries, and all candidates interview thus far have expressed a
desire to conduct studies of this nature, so it is expected our local practices will change over the next year. Additionally,
the university is transitioning to a responsibility centered management budget process and the library will be compelled
to provide more information on impact.
We are interested in assessing the impact of the library and are cognizant of some of the studies that have been done.
We do not have specific plans to do any such studies in the next 12 months. However, we will be undertaking some of
these types of studies beyond 12 months from now.
We are just at the beginning stages of investigating impact measures and how they could be used to quantify the many
benefits that libraries provide. We look forward to the SPEC Kit that will provide much useful information to us.
We are just in the early stages of conducting these types of impact measure studies at our library, but we think they
have great value and we intend to do more of them.
We are very early in our exploration of this area. We have had much discussion and some planning and think-paper
projects, but still need to explore this in real terms.
We do have an interest in measuring impact we are currently implementing a significant reorganization and preparing
to move into a new facility. We are interested in learning more about Impact studies at other ARL institutions as we do
wish to study the impact of our efforts but do not think these studies will occur within the next twelve months.
While we are very interested in assessment, any studies that involve correlative data and students are very difficult to
collect at an institution of this size.
While we very much wish to measure impact, methods for reliably doing so remain elusive. We monitor with interest
the efforts of colleagues and look forward to the results of the recently launched ARL initiative to measure return on
investment.
