IPEDS Academic Library Survey - potential removal

[Shelton, Mark]

ACRL NEC Members,

    Some of you may already be aware of this, so I do apologize for the cross posting.   For those who may not be aware, I wanted to bring it to your attention.  The National Center for Education Statistics is considering eliminating the Academic Libraries Survey from IPEDS.  As the President of ACRL NEC, I wanted to make you aware that NCES is looking for feedback on this proposal.   If you have any concerns about this change, please use the information below to go to the site that will allow you to submit the feedback.   Information about the change is also provided below.   

    Note that this would not directly impact the ACRL Academic Library Trends and Statistics Survey.   At present, the ACRl and the IPEDS surveys follow very similar questions.   Each survey may be used by your library in very different ways, and offer information to your institution's leadership from very different positions.  

Proposal to eliminate the Academic Libraries section of IPEDS:

 

https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2024/03/04/2024-04509/agency-information-collection-activities-comment-request-integrated-postsecondary-education-data 

 

"We are requesting to make changes to multiple survey components and other updates to the identification, cross-cutting terminology, and the glossary. The largest changes in this package are (1) the addition of a new Cost (CST) survey component, which combines components taken from the Student Financial Aid (SFA) and Institutional Characteristics (IC) components and combines them with added questions to determine how and make publicly available more information about how postsecondary institutions ask for information above and beyond the FAFSA; and (2) the planned elimination of the Academic Libraries (AL) survey beginning in the 2025–26 administration.

As part of the public comment period review, NCES requests that IPEDS data submitters and other stakeholders respond to the directed questions found in Appendix D of this submission."

    If you have any questions about this matter, I would be happy to help answer them.   Please feel free to reach out to me.

 

Thank you,

Mark Shelton

President, ACRL New England Chapter

Mark E. Shelton, MLS, Ed.D.
Director of Library Services
mshe...@holycross.edu

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