2019 Charleston Library Conference

CARLI Counts is a continuing education library leadership immersion program that prepares librarians to make effective use of research findings on the impact of academic libraries on student success for the twin purposes of service development and library advocacy. Program participants will learn how to use local library data analytics in alignment with institutional data, goals, and strategic priorities to improve their services and demonstrate their value. CARLI Counts is a program developed by the Consortium of Academic and Research Libraries in Illinois, a Consortium dedicated to offering support to libraries with resource sharing and staff development. It serves as a model for how consortia grants can be used to kickstart multiple analytics projects within a state or region. This session will give an overview of what CARLI is doing with a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS), Laura Bush 21st Century Librarian Program. This presentation will also include a portfolio of local case studies as examples of what kinds of projects individual academic libraries of various sizes and types can do with data and analytics. The program aims to equip libraries to use evidenced based analytics to show how library services and resources impact student success and to use data and analytics to know how to improve services and evaluate what resources are being offered. CARLI Counts is developing the program to be a replicable state/regional training model for equipping librarians to be campus leaders in assessing library impact on student learning and success. The presentation will be followed by a short Q&A session. Come for a preview of what the program is doing now!