Library assessment, like many library operations, is at an inflection point not unlike many other library services. The introduction of AI is influencing library assessment much like it is influencing other parts of the operations of an academic library. Therefore, more than any other time in the past, it is important to be aware of Socrates’ 7 critical thinking rules while we are ensuring effective, sustainable, and practical library assessment tools, services, and community forums.
Transition and transformation is taking place in the ways the Library Assessment Conference will be offered in the future, in the ways LibQUAL, ClimateQUAL, MINES of Libraries and similar tools are shifting from being available through established non-profit structures to an interest based community approach, and in the ways we are being called to ensure that library assessment continues to be effective, sustainable, and practical. By effective we want to ensure that library assessment is delivering the maximum benefit it can deliver, by sustainable we want to ensure that the evidence and the data are available in some form to the community, and by practical we want to ensure that it informs real decision making in an impactful way.
The introduction of AI has challenged our thinking about library assessment.
So, what do we
We will feature the future pathway for delivering LibQUAL and ClimateQUAL and at the same time iteratively building on improving the delivery of these protocols in ways that ensure they are effective, sustainable, and practical. We will follow up with discussions and community forums on how library transformations are reflected in what people expect and how this is changing over time in relation to expectations from library staff, content, access, and library spaces. Outcomes: Share library improvement efforts that are supported through evidence and data Showcase LibQUAl score improvements associated with transformations in library services Discuss how libraries can continue to improve in future years