Name: Turning Data into Action: Leveraging Assessment Data for Library Advocacy and Advancement
Start: 2025-06-12T10:10:00-0400
End: 2025-06-12T11:00:00-0400

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Thursday June 12, 2025 10:10am - 11:00am EDT

Ballroom 2, Pastides Alumni Center @ 900 Senate Street, Columbia, SC 29201

All libraries collect data to report out to ACRL, accrediting bodies or other entities. How can this often-collected information be used? This presentation seeks to show how libraries can put this information into action locally. The presenters will focus on effectively gathering and utilizing comparative, qualitative, and quantitative data to successfully advocate. Presenters will share real scenarios in which this information successfully led to advancements in funding, services, and facilities. The presenters will also provide opportunities to engage with the audience by asking participants to share examples from their institutions. The intent is that participants take away from the session the importance of maintaining a wide range of data along with ideas of how to leverage it to advance services and fill needs at their institutions.

Moderator: Ellan Jenkinson, PASCAL

Presenters

Jennifer Hughes

Associate University Librarian, Coastal Carolina University

Jennifer Hughes has been employed at Kimbel Library, Coastal Carolina University for over 20 years. Most of her experience has been in Access Services, and she currently serves as the Associate University Librarian. Jennifer received her MLIS from the University of South Carolina... Read More →