Information and Learning Sciences: Volume 119 Issue 1/2

Guest editorial: Assessing value and impact in academic libraries in the 21st century: personal perspectives and views from the Guest Editors

Library data labs: using an agile approach to develop library analytics in UK higher education

The purpose of this paper is to give an overview of the Jisc and Higher Education Statistics Agency (HESA) Library Data Labs project and its outputs. This collaboration involved…

The problems and promise of learning analytics for increasing and demonstrating library value and impact

The purpose of this paper is to describe the need for academic libraries to demonstrate and increase their impact of student learning and success. It highlights the data problems…

The Value Scorecard

The purpose of this paper is to describe the Value Scorecard framework for performance measurement and advocacy in academic and research libraries.

Library space assessment methods: perspectives of new information professionals

The research explores the emerging specialty of learning space assessment with a focus on how new information professionals represented by graduate students in an academic…

Qualitative methods for engaging students in performance measurement

In the modern “student focused” university setting, quality assurance and continual service improvement have become more and more important in the delivery of academic library…

Library resources, student success and the distance-learning university

Research at the Open University Library Services has been investigating the relationship between access to online library resources and student success. The purpose of this…

Assessing the impact of libraries – the role of ISO 16439

Library impact and how to evaluate it has been debated for a number of years. While the activity – the busy-ness – of the library is now routinely measured and described, the…

Impact assessment in higher education: a strategic view from the UK

This paper focuses on the importance of impact in higher education from a strategic perspective, exploring its value to institutions, learners and prospective students in today’s…

Supporting the employability agenda in university libraries: A case study from the University of Sheffield

This paper aims to outline work to support the employability agenda in the Library at the University of Sheffield, set in the context of debates about the nature of employability…

Measuring the academic library: Translating today’s inputs and outputs into future impact and value

The purpose of this paper is to provide an Australian perspective of impact and value by examining how the broader international and national perspectives play out in practice in…

Principles and practice in impact assessment for academic libraries

This paper aims to examine the principles that underpin library assessment, methods used for impact and performance evaluation and how academic libraries should use the findings…

Academic libraries break down silos

The purpose of this paper is to illustrate examples of the manner by which the academic library breaks down the silos on a college campus.