from library professionals around the world. The project continues to welcome feedback online at http://libvalue.cci.utk.edu/. 1 Judy Luther, University Investment in the Library: What’s the Return? A Case Study at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Elsevier Library Connect White Paper 1 (San Diego CA: Elsevier, 2008), http://libraryconnect.elsevier.com/whitepapers/0108/lcwp010801.html Carol Tenopir, Amy Love, Joseph Park, Lei Wu, Andrea Baer, Regina Mays, Bruce Kingma, Donald W. King, University Investment in the Library, Phase II: An International Study of the Library’s Value to the Grants Process, Elsevier Library Connect White Paper 2 (San Diego CA: Elsevier, 2010), http://www.elsevier.com/wps/find/librariansinfo.librarians/lc_home#White_Paper. 2 Lib-Value website, http://libvalue.cci.utk.edu/. 3 Library Assessment Blog, http://www.libraryassessment.info/. © 2010 Regina Mays, Carol Tenopir, and Paula Kaufman This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial- Share Alike 3.0 United States License. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/us/. To cite this article: Regina Mays, Carol Tenopir, and Paula Kaufman. “Lib-Value: Measuring Value and Return on Investment of Academic Libraries.” Research Library Issues: A Bimonthly Report from ARL, CNI, and SPARC, no. 271 (August 2010): 36–40. http://www.arl.org/resources/pubs/rli/archive/rli271.shtml. RLI 271 40 Lib-Value: Measuring Value and Return on Investment of Academic Libraries ( C O N T I N U E D ) AUGUST 2010 RESEARCH LIBRARY ISSUES: A BIMONTHLY REPORT FROM ARL, CNI, AND SPARC