Library Assessment Presentation at ACRL Conference

Here's the link to a recent library assessment presentation from the 2007 ACRL conference. Take a look and see if there are any ideas you could implement at your campus if you are getting questions about the impact of library instruction on student success, how the library contributes to the college's "learning environment," or evidence of student success related to the library, and the like.

Assessment Resources for Library Instruction

The following pages and articles discuss student assessment of library instruction, and administrative assessment of instruction by librarians and program administrators:

The "S" word: Assessment. Statistics, Support, Success
Kathy Labadorf, University of Connecticut, and Laurie Sabol, Tufts University
New England Library Instruction Group Spring meeting, 2005

Library Instruction Services Assessment and Evaluation
Odum Library, Valdosta State University

Library Instruction Program: Assessment
Merrill-Cazier Library, Utah State University

Assessment: Library Instruction Classes & Programs
University of Maryland Libraries

Instruction: Assessment Surveys
University of Iowa Libraries

Instructional Improvement in Academic Libraries
Scott Walter, Associate University Librarian for Services
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Assessing Library Instruction Assessment Activities
Jim Kapoun, Library Philosophy and Practice Vol. 7, No. 1 (Fall 2004)

Peer Coaching Bibliography

"Peer Coaching is a confidential process through which two or more professional colleagues work together to review current practices; expand, refine, and build new skills; share ideas; teach one another; conduct classroom research; and solve problems in the workplace." -

from Slater, C.L. and Simmons, D.L., "The Design and Implementation of a Peer Coaching Program." American Secondary Education, v. 29, n. 3, [Spring 2001],67 - 76.

Click here for a peer coaching bibliography; a few of the references at the end of the list are online.

Welcome to Reference & Instruction Exchange Roundtable

This is a cooperative effort to start a dialogue about Reference and Instruction in NC Community Colleges. What are you doing now, what are your instructional and reference success stories, and what are your ideas on improving instruction and reference services with the CC student population? Comments are enabled on this blog, but please stay close to the topics listed in the mission statement at the top of the screen.

We would also like to start a conversation about peer evaluation; you may also see references to this concept under "peer coaching" in the professional literature. We are interested in this concept with the emphasis on "peer", with librarian's working to improve each other as professionals, not as a part of an employee's evaluation.