Unless otherwise noted, all of the following presentations were created by Keith Curry Lance. Keith is available as a speaker at local, state, regional, national, and international events for librarians, educators, and public policy-makers. Presentations on these and other topics will be updated for, and customized to, your audience’s specific needs. For more information about topics on which he is prepared to present, see the annual announcement he sends to state library agencies and state and regional library associations. He can be contacted at klance@rslresearch.com.
- Enough Already! Blazing New Trails for School Library Research
- The Future of School Librarianship: Review of Research and Implications for Practice
- Powering Achievement: research on the impact of school libraries and librarians on academic achievement (a.k.a. Strong Libraries, Strong Scores)
- Power Librarianship: research-based strategies for leadership, collaboration, and technology integration
- Scientifically-Based Research on the Impact of School Libraries on Academic Achievement: what is it? how much of it do we have? how can we do it better?
- WII FM (What’s In It For Me?): how principals and teachers benefit from strong school libraries
- Available Data for Library Advocates: a bibliography of regularly updated statistical sources
- Can We Talk? collecting data via focus group and key informant interviews
- Cut-to-the-Chase Research: making the most of available data -- Bibliography
- How to Design a Survey … and when and how to avoid it!
- Survey Fatigue? an Rx for avoiding the problem
- Policy Research 101 (an abbreviated overview of all of the above)
- Counting on Results: new tools for outcome-based evaluation in public libraries
- Deja vu, ja vu: from outputs to outcomes … and back again
- Strategies for Conducting Outcome-Based Evaluations
- Making It Count @ your library: the strongest messages, the latest facts, the best sources … and your library’s story (geared to the Public Library Association’s Smartest Card campaign)
- Measuring Electronic Services in Public Libraries
- Playing the Numbers Game: strategies for analyzing & presenting library data
