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Core/RUSA Webinar: From Goals to Impact: Library User Stories
Date: Wednesday, January 20, 2026
All webinars are one hour in length and begin at 11 am Pacific, noon
Mountain, 1 pm Central, and 2 pm Eastern time.
Description:
Successful leadership efforts center key partners and anticipate concrete
outcomes. In libraries, this means demonstrating impact by linking
institutional goals with information about students' library engagement and
its relation to their learning and success. User stories are an essential
strategy library leaders and managers can use to communicate the benefits
of library projects for various audiences and the expected impacts on their
knowledge, skills, and abilities. Utilizing user stories as a leadership
strategy ensures that students, faculty, staff, and others are included,
clarifies the direct benefits of library engagement, and centers equity and
impact from the onset of project planning.
This session will demonstrate how library leaders and managers can apply
user stories to provide a common understanding of research and results,
enabling rapid transition (as appropriate) to address and act upon
findings. User stories can be broad or tailored to specific populations;
likewise they can be adapted to campuswide or precise questions or needs.
As such, employing user stories can help leaders and managers articulate a
vision, unite partners around common goals, and drive meaningful change
that supports student learning and growth.
Participant Engagement: Participants will engage in an open Q & A
discussion with the presenters and other session participants about ways in
which clear planning, using user stories and/or other approaches, can
advance equity and ensure impact of library projects.
Learning outcomes:
By the end of the session, attendees will be able to:
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construct user stories that anticipate institutional goals and action
resulting from assessment results.
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communicate the benefits of library projects for various audiences and
the expected impacts on their knowledge, skills, and abilities using a user
stories approach.
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apply user stories to provide a common understanding of research and
results in order to address and act upon findings, as appropriate.
Who should attend?
Library senior leaders, administrators, managers, mid-level leaders, and
project-managers
Presenters:
Dr. Megan Oakleaf is a Professor of Library and Information Science and
Associate Dean for Academic Affairs in the iSchool at Syracuse University.
She is the author of The Value of Academic Libraries: A Comprehensive
Research Review and Report, Academic Library Value: The Impact Starter Kit,
Library Integration in Institutional Learning Analytics, and Connecting
Libraries and Learning Analytics for Student Success and has earned
recognition and awards for articles published in top library and
information science journals including College and Research Libraries,
Portal, Reference and User Services Quarterly, JASIST, and Journal of
Documentation. Her research areas include library learning analytics,
outcomes assessment, evidence-based decision making, information literacy
instruction, and academic library impact and value.
Dr. Rebecca (Becky) Croxton is the Assessment Research Analyst at Colorado
State University Libraries. She earned a PhD in educational studies, a
doctoral minor in educational research methods, and her MLIS degree from
the University of North Carolina at Greensboro (UNCG). Becky is also an
adjunct lecturer and has taught a variety of courses including Data
Visualization and Media Production Services. She previously worked as the
Head of Library Strategic Analytics and Special Projects at UNC Charlotte,
and was a Reference Librarian at both Johnson & Wales University’s
Charlotte campus and Central Piedmont Community College. She is an active
researcher and has published numerous articles and presented nationally on
a variety of topics including library assessment, quantifying the value of
the academic library, online learning, professional identity development,
and information seeking needs, preferences, and motivation of undergraduate
students.
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Registration fees for webinar: Core Member $57.85; ALA member: $80.10;
Student member $44.50; Non-member $89.00
For additional information and access to registration links, please go to
the following website:
https://elearning.ala.org/local/catalog/view/product.php?productid=1584
Core webinars are recorded and registrants receive a link to the recording
shortly following the live event.
For questions about registration, contact ALA Registration by calling
1-800-545-2433 and press 5 or email registration_at_ala.org.
For all other questions or comments related to Core webinars, please
contact Core CE staff at corece_at_ala.org.
*Posted on behalf of the Core Continuing Education Committee.*
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