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Welcome to LibQUAL+®!

LibQUAL+® is a suite of services that libraries use to solicit, track, understand, and act upon users’ opinions of service quality. These services are offered to the library community by the Association of Research Libraries (ARL). The program’s centerpiece is a rigorously tested Web-based survey bundled with training that helps libraries assess and improve library services, change organizational culture, and market the library. The goals of LibQUAL+® are to:

  • Foster a culture of excellence in providing library service
  • Help libraries better understand user perceptions of library service quality
  • Collect and interpret library user feedback systematically over time
  • Provide libraries with comparable assessment information from peer institutions
  • Identify best practices in library service
  • Enhance library staff members' analytical skills for interpreting and acting on data

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The LibQUAL+® project was supported in part by a grant from the U.S. Department of Education's Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education (FIPSE) from 2001-2003. Funding to develop a similar protocol for digital libraries is currently provided by NSDL/NSF through August 2004. LibQUAL+®, a partnership between ARL and Texas A&M University, is one of the ARL New Measures Initiatives managed as part of the ARL Statistics and Measurement Program.

LibQUAL+® Share Fair, Chicago, July 13, 2009: Call for Entries

The LibQUAL+® team invites entries in the 2009 Share Fair!
[Click here for the full announcement...]


LibQUAL+® 2010 In-Kind Grant Program Guidelines

For the fifth year, LibQUAL+® is sponsoring an in-kind grant program for participants in the 2010 LibQUAL+® survey. A total of up to five institutions will be awarded grants to participate in the 2010 survey. Our goal is to offer one grant for every 50 registered libraries.

Two application deadlines: June 15, 2009 and December 14, 2009.


2009 LibQUAL+® Survey - Survey Preferences are now available!

The survey preferences form for the 2009 LibQUAL+® survey is now available at http://www.libqual.org/Manage/Survey/index.cfm. This form allows you to designate the language for your survey, set survey start and end dates, indicate whether your institution will offer local incentives and receive data in SPSS format, identify a support e-mail address that will appear on your survey form, and upload your institution's logo.

NOTE: If you participated in 2008 Session II, you must wait until Dec 22, 2008, to register for 2009 (and access preferences) because the 2008 Post Hoc Questionnaire and Evaluation Questionnaire will continue to be available until that time.


2009 Survey Registration Now Available!

Registration for the 2008 survey closed on August 31, 2008. If you would like to participate in the 2009 survey, register online at http://www.libqual.org/Register/index.cfm.

2009 Deadlines

2009 Session I: January 15th —May 30th
*Last day to register is May 1st*

2009 Session II: July 1st —December 9th
*Last day to register is August 31st*


Need LibQUAL+® educational materials? New online order form

Use this online form to request free LibQUAL+(TM) publications, training materials, and other educational items.


LibQUAL+® 2009 In-Kind Grant Program Guidelines

For the fourth year, LibQUAL+® is sponsoring an in-kind grant program for participants in the 2009 LibQUAL+® survey. A total of up to five institutions will be awarded grants to participate in the 2009 survey. Our goal is to offer one grant for every 50 registered libraries.

Two application deadlines: June 13, 2008 and December 15, 2008.

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ARL Google Analytics Workshop

Date: 7/10/2009

Conference: ALA Annual Conference

Site: Hyatt Regency Chicago, Wrigley Room

Location: Chicago, IL

The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) Statistics and Measurement Program is offering a second full-day workshop of Google Analytics training, to be held in partnership with LunaMetrics, a Google Analytics Authorized Consultant. Google Analytics is a tool that can help you learn where your Web site visitors are coming from and how they interact with your Web pages.


Working Effectively with LibQUAL+®

Date: 7/13/2009

Conference: 2009 ALA Annual Conference

Site: Hyatt Regency, 151 East Wacker Drive, Columbus Hall A/B

Location: Chicago, IL

11:00am - 5:00pm
$125 fee

This workshop will enable staff responsible for administering the LibQUAL+® survey to develop work plans that they can apply in their libraries after they receive the survey results, including how to analyze and present results visually, identify actionable items, and much more! For more information about this event, see LibQUAL+® Training Programs.

Key Speakers: Raynna Bowlby, Consultant, and Martha Kyrillidou, Director, Statistics and Service Quality Programs, ARL. For information about the instructors, see instructor biographies.


Contribute to the 2009 LibQUAL® Share Fair

Date: 7/13/2009

Conference: ALA Annual Conference

Site: Hyatt Regency, 151 Wacker Drive, Columbus Hall A/B

Location: Chicago, IL

8:30 a.m. to 10:30 a.m.
Please consider contributing to the 2009 LibQUAL+® Share Fair.

LibQUAL+® will host the 2009 Share Fair at the ALA Annual Conference in Chicago, IL on July 13, 2009 from 8:30 a.m. to 10:30 a.m.

For the Share Fair, we are seeking entries that will provide poster sessions, displays, or materials related to marketing, administration, and use of LibQUAL+®. Stories about what your library did after administering the survey are encouraged. The Share Fair is a venue for learning and sharing practices.

This event is open to all past, current, and potential LibQUAL+® participants.

If you are interested in sharing information with colleagues from the LibQUAL+® community, describe your entry on the Participant Information Sheet available online at http://www.libqual.org/documents/admin/sharefair09form.doc. Please return your completed Information Sheet via e-mail to libqual@arl.org no later than June 19, 2009.


2009 LibQUAL+® Share Fair

Date: 7/13/2009

Conference: ALA Annual Conference

Site: Hyatt Regency, 151 Wacker Drive, Columbus Hall A/B

Location: Chicago, IL

8:30 a.m. to 10:30 a.m.
No fee

Join us for the 2009 LibQUAL+® Share Fair at the ALA Annual Conference in Chicago, IL on July 13! This informal gathering will feature brief presentations/poster sessions by past and current LibQUAL+® participants.

This event is open to all past, current, and potential LibQUAL+® participants.

The Share Fair is a venue for learning and sharing practices.


LibQUAL+® at Northumbria International Conference on Performance Measurement in Libraries and Information Services

Date: 8/17/2009

Conference: 8th Northumbria International Conference on Performance Measurement in Libraries and Information Services

Site: Florence, ITALY, Room TBD

9:00am – 1:00pm
Cost: Free, with advance registration

LibQUAL+® participants and interested parties are invited to attend the event “Service Quality Measurement in Libraries: A LibQUAL+® Exchange,” to be held in conjunction with the 8th Northumbria International Conference on Performance Measurement in Libraries and Information Services.

The event will feature speakers from LibQUAL+®-participating libraries who will share their experiences with the survey and discuss how they used the results. In addition, we will discuss the LibQUAL+® Lite protocol and recent international initiatives.

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2009 LibQUAL+® Session I Highlights


2009 LibQUAL+® Session I Highlights Supplementary


Library Quality Assessment through LibQUAL+(R)

Martha Kyrillidou, Presented at the IATUL Conference in Leuven, Belgium, June 2, 2009.


ARL and SCONUL Assessment Initiatives: Synergies and Opportunities

Stephen Town, Qualitative and Quantitative Methods in Libraries International Conference, Chania, GREECE, May 29, 2009.


ARL Library Investment Index: Why is it Important?

Brinley Franklin, Colleen Cook, Martha Kyrillidou, and Bruce Thompson, Qualitative and Quantitative Methods in Libraries International Conference, Chania, GREECE, May 29, 2009.

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