Putting Assessment into Action: Selected Projects from the First Cohort of the Assessment in Action Grant. Edited by Eric Ackermann. Chicago: ACRL, 2015. 228 p. Paper $52.00 (ISBN: 978-0-8389-8813-8).

Creating, implementing, and managing academic library programs can be a daunting task in itself, but how do academic librarians successfully assess the outcomes of multifaceted, long-term programs? In 2013 and 2014, ACRL began an Assessment in Action (AiA) grant program to monitor the results and outcomes of twenty-seven American and Canadian academic library programs, including programs on information literacy, student collaboration, management of technology facilities, space optimization, and linkage of student retention with research assistance. Edited by Eric Ackermann, Putting Assessment into Action: Selected Projects from the First Cohort of the Assessment in Action Grant, provides detailed results of these program assessments. Many other library program assessment books require a working knowledge of research design and statistics, but this well-written volume is accessible to readers without such background knowledge, enabling them to quickly and easily understand and utilize the results from these programs. Each case study contains an extensive bibliography for further reference.

This useful handbook will help academic librarians assess their own programs and, in doing so, provide the best service for their patrons—without having to become experts on research design and statistics themselves. Highly recommended.—Larry Cooperman, University of Central Florida Libraries, Orlando, Florida