Evidence-Based Decisions on Collecting and Collections: A Workshop At ALA Midwinter

Roger Schonfeld is hosting a workshop during ALA Midwinter on Evidence-Based Decisions on Collecting and Collections.

This workshop is designed to help academic and research libraries make more evidence-based decisions about their collecting and collections. This session will cover the format transitions for current collecting as well as collections management, especially for monographs and other books. Participants will be encouraged to bring their own data pertaining to their college or university, such as collections usage, survey findings, and budget documents for group discussion. The workshop format will include the following components:

• An overview of national-level data that help to contextualize this issue and frame some of the key issues that individual institutions may wish to consider;
• Group discussion of strategies for incorporating evidence most effectively into institutional decision-making on these topics;
• Group review of participants’ institution-level data, including what is useful and what is missing; and
• Time to begin formulating institutional plans for structuring evidence-based decision-making processes on these issues.

Registration is capped at 30.

Please note, the Local Survey participant rate is reserved for people from institutions who have implemented, or who are implementing, the Ithaka S+R local faculty and/or local student survey on their campus. For more information about our local survey program, please see http://www.sr.ithaka.org/content/ithaka-sr-local-surveys.

Please contact Kimberly Lutz at kimberly.lutz@ithaka.org if you have questions about registering.