Assessment as Action Research: Bridging Academic Scholarship and Everyday Practice

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Kara J. Malenfant is Senior Strategist for Special Initiatives at the Association of College and Research Libraries, e-mail: kmalenfant@ala.org; Lisa Janicke Hinchliffe is Professor, University Library and Coordinator for Information Literacy Services and Instruction at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, e-mail: ljanicke@illinois.edu; Debra Gilchrist is Vice President for Learning and Student Success at Pierce College, e-mail: dgilchri@pierce.ctc.edu. © 2016 Kara J. Malenfant, Lisa Janicke Hinchliffe, and Debra Gilchrist, Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/) CC BY-NC 3.0 his special issue of College and Research Libraries proudly features a selection of action research studies by participants of the ACRL program “Assessment in Action: Academic Libraries and Student Success” (AiA). Just over 200 institutions have participated in the AiA program, with a librarian from each leading a campus team in developing and implementing an action learning project that examines the impact of the library on student success and contributes to assessment activities on campus. The AiA approach to action learning projects is described to potential applicants as follows:

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