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A Comprehensive Research Review and Report and launched not only its "Value of Academic Libraries" (VAL) initiative (http:// www.acrl.ala.org/value/), but also a continuing series of studies seeking to answer the Report's call to design new approaches to library assessment. 1 Among the chief tasks of that report were to define what we mean by "value" when we discuss academic libraries, and to articulate specific ways in which we might study, document, and communicate the contributions that libraries and librarians make to teaching, learning, scholarship, service, and other goals valued by our institutions. In 2010, "value" was a critical concept for academic libraries to embrace, engage, and explore if they were to remain part of the broader discourse about what matters in higher education, and the fruits of this ongoing effort will be on display in an upcoming issue of this journal, which features reports on research conducted as part of the Assessment in Action project (http://www.ala.org/acrl/AiA). In 2015, there is another critical, and equally ill-defined, concept requiring our attention, and the word we associate with that concept is "innovation."
Walter et al. (Thu,) studied this question.