"Academic Libraries and the Academy is a thorough collection of best practices, lessons learned, approaches, and strategies of how librarians, library professionals, and others in academic libraries around the world are successfully providing evidence of their contributions to student academic success and effectively demonstrating their library's value and worth to institutional administrators and stakeholders. Forty-two case studies are divided into four sections--from beginning assessment work through assessment activities that are more difficult to measure and generally more time- and resource-intensive--to provide practicable ideas and effective strategies for all levels of experience, assessment skills, stages of implementation, and access to resources"-- Provided by publisher.

High-impact practices and archives -- Growing our field evidence : succession planning for sustainable information literacy assessment -- Connecting student success and library services -- Our "special obligation" : library assessment, learning analytics, and intellectual freedom -- Research and writing in the discipline : a model for faculty-librarian collaboration -- Thinking LEAN : the relevance of Gemba-Kaizen and visual assessment in collection management -- Delivering on the institution's mission : developing measures for a research library's strategic plan -- Begin again -- Three thousand library users can't be wrong : demonstrating library impact using one open-ended survey question -- Rowan University Libraries' head-counting study -- Measuring accessibility and reliability of a laptop-lending kiosk in an academic library -- Triangulating an assessment plan -- Leveraging research to guide fundamental changes in learning: a case study at Kreitzberg Library, Norwich University -- Answering the question before it's asked : building a library impact dashboard -- Closing the gap : the library in academic program review -- An ounce of performance is worth pounds of promises : the impact of web-scale discovery on full-text consumption -- Show them the (data-driven) goods : a transparent collection assessment tool for libraries -- Q-methodology : a versatile, quick, and adaptable indirect assessment method -- Assessing discovery : how first-year students use the Primo discovery tool -- Problems and promises of using LMS learner analytics for assessment : case study of a first-year English program -- Reframing information literacy assessment : reaching for college seniors -- Library instruction, net promoter scores, and nudging beyond satisfaction -- Gathering user behaviors : improving library space while enhancing the library's profile -- Constructing the evaluation mosaic of a library module for new undergraduate students -- Breaking the SEAL : enhancing engagement with academic libraries and the academy through educational design innovation in technology-enhanced learning -- Using reflective writing to enhance the student research process -- Assessing the effectiveness of collaboration workshops in an academic library : a mixed-methods approach -- Transitioning from a teaching to a research-focused collection in a Middle Eastern university : a road map for future directions -- Creating a strategic and flexible assessment framework for undergraduate student outreach -- Value assessment strategies and return on investment of the twenty-first century libraries : covenant university in view -- Cracking the code : course syllabi unpacked, decoded, and documented for evidence of library value -- Building a case for the replacement of a legacy library management system -- When numbers are not enough : using assessment toward organizational change -- Assessment as engagement : understanding faculty perceptions of research at Trinity College -- Targeting collection assessment data to the intended audience -- Story time in the academic library : using assessment evidence to communicate library value -- "We only see what we look at" : sight as a metaphor for exploring student library use, study habits, and research behaviors -- Longitudinal information literacy skills assessment -- The maturing of a big library data project, or, how to future-proof your library data and student success project -- A voice of their own? : letting library collections tell their story : the UNT Libraries collection map -- A story for the ages : staff engage in reorganization by reading a decade's trend data -- Using program evaluation as a proxy for assessment : diffusion from policy literature to improve academic program assessment.