The Higher Education Information Resources Alliance (HEIRAlliance) is a vehicle for cooperative projects between the Association of Research Libraries and EDUCAUSE.
Archives of Past HEIRAlliance Projects
(ARL, CAUSE, Educom)HEIRAlliance Executive Strategies Series
The HEIRAlliance Executive Strategies series was designed to keep chief higher education executives informed about critical issues related to information technologies. Focus issues, identified by the executive officers of the three sponsoring associations (ARL, CAUSE and Educom), included the integration of information resources on campus, impacts of networking in higher education, and the role of technology as an agent of change in university libraries. The four-page reports were usually based on background papers prepared by teams of executives from colleges and universities with particular expertise in the designated subject. Reports include:
- Report #1: Integration of Information Technologies on Campus
- Report #2: Future of University Libraries: Technology and Scholarly Communication
- Report #3: Impact of Networking on Campus
- Report #4: Payoff on the Information Technology Investment
- Report #5: AAU Action Agenda for University Libraries
- Report #6: Evaluating Institutional Information Resources
- Report #7: The Transformation of Higher Education
HEIRAlliance Evaluation Guidelines for Institutional Information Resources
The HEIRAlliance Evaluation Guidelines for Institutional Information Resources provided guidelines for evaluating campus information resources that colleges and universities could use when doing instutitional self-assessments, and that regional accrediting associations could consider as part of the accrediting process. This document is an update (published in 1995) of the CAUSE/Educom Evaluation Guidelines for Institutional Information Technology Resources, published in 1988.Also available as part of this project is a related document that provided an example of the information technology environment at an information-resources-intensive institution.
ARL, the Association of Research Libraries, is an organization of 119 major research libraries in the U.S. and Canada whose mission is to shape and influence forces affecting the future of research libraries in the process of scholarly communication. 202-296-2296
EDUCAUSE, The mission of EDUCAUSE is to help shape and enable transformational change in higher education through the introduction, use, and management of information resources and technologies in teaching, learning, scholarship, research, and institutional management. 303-449-4430