[Libs-Or] LART: Newsletter draft for September

[Stoddart, Richard]

Hi everyone, here’s what the
 Oregon Library Association Library Assessment Round Table (LART) blog<http://olalart.wordpress.com/>
  shared in September 2013.




Blog Posts



Check out this great way to present survey data!<http://olalart.wordpress.com/2013/09/30/check-out-this-great-way-to-present-survey-data/> - A video from Marylhurst University.



NCES Releases New Postsecondary Data<http://olalart.wordpress.com/2013/09/10/nces-releases-new-integrated-postsecondary-education-data-system-ipeds-methodology-report/> – Information on the IPEDS statistics resource.




Interview of Meredith Farkas<http://olalart.wordpress.com/2013/08/30/getting-to-know-the-orbis-cascade-alliance-assessment-team-an-interview-with-meredith-farkas/> —  A member of the Orbis Cascade Alliance Assessment Team describes her role and the team’s effort to collect assessment tools from Alliance members.



Library Data Visualization Blog<http://olalart.wordpress.com/2013/08/30/library-data-visualization-blog-public-library-survey-data-visualizations/> – We noticed that this blog links to wonderful visualizations of data from the FY 2011 Public Library Survey. The blog has an interactive tool through which you can make your own visualizations.





Assessment Events & Resources



AAC&U: General Education and Assessment conference<http://www.aacu.org/meetings/generaleducation/gened2014/index.cfm>
February 27 — March 1st,  2014   Portland, Oregon


Library Assessment Conference<http://libraryassessment.org/index.shtml>
August 4 – 6, 2014  Seattle, Washington


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Journal Alert:

The latest issue of Evidence Based Library and Information Practice<http://ejournals.library.ualberta.ca/index.php/EBLIP> journal includes articles about information literacy rubrics for student bibliographies, evidence summaries on patron-driven ebooks and approachability of librarians, among other great stuff. Give it a look<http://ejournals.library.ualberta.ca/index.php/EBLIP>.





Watch our blog: <http://www.oregoneval.org> http://olalart.wordpress.com for all things assessment in libraries.



Send us ideas for posts:

OregonLART at gmail.com<mailto:OregonLART at gmail.com>


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