Call for Book Proposals

[Gruzynski, Vicki]

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Vicki Gruzynski

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Librarian, Teaching and Learning

Worcester State University
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From: Holt Zaugg <holt_...@BYU.EDU>

Subject: Call for Book Proposals

Date: January 31, 2025 at 2:15:32 PM EST

To: LIB...@JISCMAIL.AC.UK

Reply-To: Library Performance Measurement and Assessment <LIB...@JISCMAIL.AC.UK>

Call for Proposals (Please excuse cross-posting)

Working Title: Assessment Methods to Conduct Successful Library Evaluations

Editor: Holt Zaugg, Brigham Young University

 

Publisher: Emerald Publishing

Library assessments take many forms and use a variety of assessment tools to collect data. An assortment of tools increases options for those conducting assessments to collect and triangulate data to inform on library services, spaces, resources, and interactions. Being aware of these tools is a key step towards describing value and to provide data for improvement decision making and planning. The goal is to help others become aware of and use the right tools for a specific assessment. This volume describes six assessment tools:

 

• Focus Groups
• Interviews
• Surveys
• Observations/Ethnographies
• Usability Testing
• Visual Methods (e.g., film, video, drawings, paintings, photographs)

This is a call for chapter proposals that provide a clear example of how an assessment tool was used to collect and use data to describe value and for improvement planning and decision making in a library setting. The library setting may vary (e.g., academic, law, medical, public, school), but the focus of the chapter needs to be on using one of the assessment methods listed previously. In many instances several tools are used in a single assessment. Those submitting the proposal should indicate all assessment tools used in the assessment but emphasize one of the six assessment tools. Proposals are welcome from all levels of libraries (e.g., public, law, medical, school, specialty, and academic) across the world. The hope is to collect examples from a diversity of libraries and countries. 

How to Submit

Authors are invited to submit a chapter proposal as an email attachment in Word to Holt Zaugg holt_...@byu.edu  on or before Friday, February 28, 2025. The chapter proposal should be 300-500 words clearly explaining the intent and details of the proposed chapter as it relates to one of the six assessment tools listed above. Proposal and selected chapter deadlines are provided below. Completed chapters are expected to be up to 4,000 words. Accepted chapters will need to follow a specified format. 

 

Proposals should include:

·       Author name(s), institutional affiliation, job title/role

·       Brief author(s) bio (100 words)

·       Proposed chapter title

·       A summary of the proposed chapter (300-500 words)

·       The proposal summary should indicate a brief description of the assessment setting, which assessment tool was used, a brief description of findings, and how the assessment findings were used.

 

Proposed chapters should be based on unpublished work, unique to this publication and not submitted or intended to be simultaneously submitted elsewhere. It should not be previously published or presented unless substantial changes from the original are made. The proposal should be the author’s personal experience using the assessment tool in a library setting.

Any questions about the submissions should be directed to Holt Zaugg.

 

Deadlines (deadlines are on or before specified dates)

• Submission deadline for chapter proposals: 28 February 2025
• Notification of acceptance: 28 March 2025
• Submission deadline for full chapters: 30 June 2025
• Comments returned to authors: 30 July 2025
• Submission deadline for chapter revisions: 30 August 2025

 

 

 

Holt Zaugg, PhD

Assessment Librarian, BYU Library

HBLL 5720

Provo, UT 84602

holt_...@byu.edu

801-422-4178