Forthcoming in American Archivist, "Archivists’ views of user-based evaluation: Benefits, barriers and requirements," Wendy M. Duff, Jean Dryden, Carrie Limkilde, Joan Cherry and Ellie Bogomazova

August 26, 2008: Society of American Archivists, Research Forum, San Francisco, CA Morgan Daniels, "Developing the Archival Metrics Toolkits: Conceptual Development and Testing" and Dr. Helen R. Tibbo "Generating Higher Response Rates for User-based Evaluation Instruments in Archives and Special Collections"

August 4-6, 2008: OCLC Western Digital Forum, Tacoma

August 4-6, 2008: Library Assessment Conference, Seattle

May 16, 2008: Access to Archival Heritage Symposium sponsored by the Dutch Archiefschool and the University of Amsterdam. Wendy Duff, Helen Tibbo and Beth Yakel will attend and present findings from the project.

May, 2008: Institute for the Cultural Heritage of Emilia Romagna, Bologna, Italy. Wendy Duff will present "Creating User Friendly Descriptions."

April 22-26 2008: Eastica Annual Seminar, Korea. Wendy Duff to present "Providing Access to Archival Material on the Web: Revisited"

August 27-September 2, 2007: Society of American Archivists annual meeting. Session: "Beyond Evaluation: Measuring the Impact of Archives." Chair: Anne Van Camp. Presenters: Wendy Duff discussed her impact study in an archives. Helen Tibbo presented the collaboration's research on using web analytics
Beth Yakel presented a report on the project's qualitative analysis of interviews with archivists, faculty who teach using primary sources, and researchers who discuss how archives have had an impact on their lives.
Morgan Daniels and Erin Passehl presented a poster: "Student Users of Archives: An Analysis of Recent Data"

June 21-23, 2007: Annual Meeting of the Association of Canadian Archivists at Kingston, Ontario. Session: "Tools to help others see how our users see us." Wendy Duff and Helen Tibbo coordinated he session focused on gathering rigorous user feedback to help archivists understand how users view repositories and their services. Tibbo's paper discussed web server logs and web analytics, and the types of information this analysis provides. Geoff Pick discussed the Survey of Visitors to U.K. Archives - its origins, its findings and its lessons. Duff presented data gathered from testing the project's survey tools.

September 13-20, 2006: International Conference on Archives Section on University and Research Archives (ICA-SUV) Reykjavik, Iceland. Aprille McKay and Helen Tibbo presented session entitled "Building a Culture of Assessment in Academic Archives: The Archival Metrics Project and Beyond."

July 30-August 6, 2006: Joint conference of the Society of American Archivists (SAA), the Council of State Archivists (CoSA), and the National Association of Government Archives and Records Administrators (NAGARA) took place in Washington, DC. Aprille McKay presented a paper which analyzed the content of online archival research tutorials and Beth Yakel presented "Archival Metrics in College and University Archives and Special Collections."

June 28-July 1, 2006 Association of Canadian Archivists meeting, St. Johns, Newfoundland. Session: "Understanding New Audiences," all of the project's investigators gathered to discuss the importance of user-based evaluation and usability research. Wendy Duff presented an overview of user-based evaluation studies and usability research; Helen Tibbo provided a summary of the Phase One of this project which studied the feasibility of standard user-based evaluation tools. Elizabeth Yakel presented "Creating Tools for a Culture of Assessment in Archives" which discussed the development of standards for collecting registration data. Finally, Joan Cherry presented the findings of an iterative usability study of a Portal for Text Analysis Researchers, a project which is intellectually aligned with the current project.

June 3-6, 2004: "Users, Metrics, Archives". A meeting at the School of Information and Library Science at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Twenty-five representatives from a variety of different kinds of archives participated as partners. Religious, governmental, corporate, museum, and university archivists attended, as well as representatives from the Mellon Foundation, the Digital Library of California, and the Research Libraries Group consortium. Presentations were given at this meeting by Gary Marchionini, Barbara Wildemuth, and Paul Conway. Wendy Duff and Sarah Carson also presented a literature review, and Elizabeth Yakel and Elizabeth Goldman presented an analysis of current practice regarding assessment in archives.