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Abstract
In December 2021, the Canadian Association of Research Libraries (CARL) released the CARL Library Impact Framework (CLIF). While library impact has been a topic of discussion for many years, the CLIF offers a new contribution to the dialogue on demonstrating research libraries’ impact. The concept of impact pathways was borrowed from the Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences report entitled Approaches to Assessing Impacts in the Humanities and Social Sciences. To realize the impact pathways concept, the CLIF has adapted a logic model framework. This approach provides users of the CLIF a way to represent a more complete arc of research libraries’ influence, systematically and visually. By design, the CLIF encourages the use of assessment techniques and tools beyond the quantitative data collection and descriptive statistics often used by research libraries. This paper provides an overview of the CLIF including its genesis, intent, structure, and possibilities for its application.
Keywords:
- academic libraries,
- research libraries,
- evaluation,
- assessment,
- frameworks,
- library impact,
- logic models,
- outcomes
Résumé
En décembre 2021, l’Association des bibliothèques de recherche du Canada (ABRC) a publié le Cadre d’impact des bibliothèques de l’ABRC (CIBA). Quoique l’impact des bibliothèques soit un sujet de discussion depuis plusieurs années, le CIBA offre une nouvelle contribution au dialogue sur la démonstration de l’impact des bibliothèques de recherche. Le concept de voie d’impact a été emprunté d’un rapport publié par la Fédération des sciences humaines intitulé Les incidences de la recherche en sciences humaines. Afin de réaliser le concept des voies d’impact, le CIBA a adapté un cadre de modèle logique. Cette approche offre une façon aux usagers du CIBA de présenter un survol plus complet de l’influence des bibliothèques universitaires, de manière plus systématique et visuelle. De par sa conception, le CIBA encourage l’utilisation de techniques et d’outils d’évaluation allant au-delà de la collecte de données quantitatives et des statistiques descriptives souvent utilisées par les bibliothèques de recherche. Cet article présente une vue d’ensemble du CIBA y compris sa genèse, son intention, sa structure et ses applications possibles.
Mots-clés :
- Bibiothèques universitaires,
- bibliothèques de recherche,
- évaluation,
- cadres,
- impact des bibliothèques,
- modèle logique,
- résultats
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