Annie M. Payton, Ph.D

Director of the Library

Fort Valley State University

paytona@fvsu.edu

©2009 A.Payton

Teaching and Learning Learning Styles National Forum on Information Literacy ACRL 3 N

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Loss of position Flattery words Higher Education’s Economic Crisis

Budget Cuts Furloughs Reduce Hours

The implications of the conference topic were very much of interest to me for two reasons.

First, transitioning to a new position a few months ago gave me the opportunity to create or re-establish position lines that had been vacant or taken out of the library’s personnel budget line. However, to get the administration to give you something back that you lost in this economic crisis, of HE budget cuts, furloughs and reduced hours required more than an eloquent justification of flattery words, but rather a justification that will show and prove that a significant change or increase will result as of the beneficiary of adding this position back to your personnel line. ROI is similar or juxtapose to assessment.

ARL Association of Research Libraries

http://www.arl.orgACRL Association of College and Research Librarieshttp://www.ala.org/ala/mgrps/divrs/acrlIPEDS Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System

http://www.nces.ed.gov/IPEDSNCES National Center for Education Statistics

http://nces.ed.gov

Product

who are the student,

what are their needs,

how this service will benefit

Preparation hours for preparation

Face to Face

Web tutorial

PromotionMarket

What is ROI A financial measure based on collected

data Net profit/total investment x100 Measures a service profitability and its

ability to generate a measure of success from funds invested in the service (Payton).

Identify the total financial benefits your institution draws from a learning program and subtract that from the total investment made to develop, produce and deliver that program

Pre and post test Citations Surveys Library Research Servicehttp://www.lrs.org/public/roi/

usercalculator.php

Florida http://dlis.dos.state.fl.us/bld/roi/workshop.cfm Wisconsin http://dpi.wi.gov/pld/pdf/wilibraryimpact.pdf.

Indianahttp://www.irbc.indiana.edu

Library Research Servicehttp://www.lrs.org/public/roi/usercalculator.php

Cost of the Program, Project or Service Cost of librarian (financial) Significant impact on teaching and learning Cost of classroom Hours of Preparation

Opportunities for Results Unit Assessment Annual Reports Strategic Plans Conferences Workshops Budget Hearing

Websites on the Topic http://www.learningactivity.com/roi-

learning.html http://www.informationliteracy.org.uk http://www.infolit.org