The proceedings of the 2008 Library Assessment Conference, “Building Effective, Sustainable, Practical Assessment,” held August 4–7 in Seattle, Washington, are now available freely on the Web and for purchase in print or on CD-ROM.
This second Library Assessment Conference—following the successful 2006 conference in Charlottesville, Virginia—brought together over 375 participants from libraries, information schools, associations, library systems, and vendors for four days of assessment presentations, poster sessions, discussions, and workshops. The proceedings contain more than 60 papers spanning assessment activities in libraries, information literacy, library as place, organizational culture, management information, using assessment data for change, assessment methods, reference evaluation, LibQUAL+®, statistical data, program impact/evaluation, usability, e-metrics, and more.