It is getting hectic these last few days before we leave for MLA and it won't slow down once we are in Chicago. For those of you who might be interested, Elsevier will be presenting (Sunday 3:55 and Monday 4:15) the results of a study on library return on investment at the MLA in Chicago. Entitled "University Investment in Libraries: What's the Payback? A Case Study at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign ," it offers a model on ROI based on data from the UIUC.

The White Paper for this study can be found at this URL:
http://libraryconnect.elsevier.com/whitepapers/0108/lcwp0101.pdf

It is available for you to read ahead of the presentation. Anybody who is unable to attend the presentation due to scheduling conflicts or not at MLA, might also want to read the paper as well.