The ARLG AGM was held on the 14 May 2025 minutes are attached for members to view.

There is a CALL FOR ACTION – get involved!

Join an ARLG Regional working group – we have around 2,497 members from Further Education, Higher Education and Research Libraries. We are the largest and one of the oldest groups. We will fund events and can help promote them, but we need groups of people regionally to run the events. We need more volunteers to help organise events in your regions and online.

Involvement in ARLG Regional working groups makes it possible for members to help design and run the events and visits you want to attend  - for free, except travel, and many events can be offered online for convenience. For professional registration candidates this provides opportunities to gain transferable skills, network and subsequently evaluate your involvement and include it in your portfolio. Even if you only get involved for a year, we welcome new people to run events in your regions. Regional Co-ordinators are part of our National committee and hold planning meetings amongst themselves, so do volunteer even if you can only offer to plan F2F events in your own city or nearby area.

ARLG is supported financially by CILIP and the committee will pay invoiced catering, speaker or venue costs for events held by Regional working groups comprising CILIP ARLG members that have been agreed in advance with the committee.

New committee members filled some of our vacancies at the AGM:

We will invite all the candidates who show interest in any of our vacancies, to our next committee meeting in November to be nominated and seconded if the meeting is quorate.

Please email chair.ARLG@cilip.org.uk if you are interested in any of the vacancies.

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Dear Colleagues,

You are invited to participate in a research study exploring the Use of Learning Analytics in Higher Education Academic Library Online Instruction.

Use of Learning Analytics in Higher Education Academic Library Online Instruction Survey:
https://forms.office.com/r/uVZxFF1JPj

The survey will take approximately 20 – 30 minutes to complete on average.

Intended Participants:

• academic librarians who capture, use data or are interested in learning analytics to support and assess the impact of their academic library online instruction / teaching
• employed by higher education academic libraries

The survey focuses on the following questions:

1. How do higher education academic librarians currently use data to measure and support their academic library online instruction?
2. What are some of the methods, tools, and practices that are implemented in higher education academic library online instruction learning analytics?
3. To what extent are higher education academic library online instruction data initiatives aligned with institutional learning analytics initiatives?
4. What are the institutional supports that benefit and the challenges that hinder adoption of learning analytics approaches in higher education academic libraries?
5. What supports do higher education academic librarians require to develop skills and apply knowledge to support their learning analytics activities?

Participants will have the opportunity to benefit from reflecting on their teaching and instruction practices and share your experiences with using learning analytics at your institution.

The results of the research study will be shared to provide a current picture of the use of learning analytics in higher education academic library online instruction to encourage greater awareness of learning analytics, including benefits and challenges. Librarians, library staff, and library administrators will have an opportunity to share information regarding benefits and challenges with learning analytics initiatives related to their academic library online instruction and supports needed to develop librarian learning analytics skills and application of knowledge to improve higher education academic library online instruction.

Survey responses are anonymous, and only randomly generated identifiers will be associated with your response.

The research study is being undertaken by Simone Laughton, Head of Library & Instructional Technologies at the University of Toronto Mississauga Library.

This research has been approved by the Research Ethics Board at the University of Toronto. If you have any questions or concerns about this project, you may contact the above-named persons or the Office of Research Ethics, University of Toronto at ethics.review@utoronto.ca or 416-946-3273. Further details are included in the “informed consent” text (first question of the survey).

The survey will be available until February 28th, 2025.

Thank you in advance for your participation and contributions to this research study,

Simone Laughton
Head of Library & Instructional Technologies
University of Toronto Mississauga Library
simone.laughton@utoronto.ca