Guide Editors
Benjamin Hall, University of Southern California
Alison Messier, UMass Amherst
Previously Maintained
Guide originally compiled (2020) by:
LuMarie Guth, Western Michigan University
Ilana Stonebraker, Indiana University
In collaboration with the RUSA webinar "2020 AACSB Standards: What Business Libraries Need to Know."
Contact
Have a question about this guide? Use the link below to contact a member of the BRASS Business Reference in Academic Libraries Committee.
- BRASS: Business Reference in Academic Libraries Committee
Visit the BRASS website for the committee charge, roster, composition, subcommittees, and ALA Connect link.
AACSB Toolkit Overview
Welcome to the AACSB Standards Toolkit for Business Librarianship!
In 2020, the accreditation body for business schools (AACSB) released a new set of Standards for schools seeking accreditation.
Here you will find:
Library Research on the AACSB Standards
- 2020 AACSB Accreditation Standards: What They Mean for Business Librarians - Ilana Stonebraker and LuMarie Guth, RUSA WebinarWhat is the AACSB International and why do we care? Retrospective of libraries and the standards. Overview of the 2020 drafting process. Analysis of what the 2020 Standards mean for libraries. What business librarians should do now.
- Business librarians' role in supporting AACSB accreditation: A discussion about the potentials - Grace Liu, Academic BRASSThis article on AACSB offers two potentials:
1) How librarians can extend support to business schools and help them meet and exceed the standards and
2) How librarians can align liaison efforts with business schools’ missions and their vision of transforming business education for positive societal impact. - AACSB accreditation standards: What they mean for business librarians past, present, and future - LuMarie Guth and Ilana Stonebraker, Journal of Business and Finance LibrarianshipThe Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB International), which accredits over 840 business schools globally, released a new business school accreditation standards document in 2020. A retrospective of library references in the AACSB standards over time and an overview of the development of the new standards. Includes a mapping of library information literacy initiatives to the programmatic goals of business schools.
- New Trends in Business Education: What Librarians Need to Know - Jo-Anne Hogan and Elliot Davis, CHOICE WebinarIn this webinar, you’ll hear from Elliot Davis from the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB) and Jo-Anne Hogan from ProQuest on the current and future information needs of undergraduate and MBA programs. Topics include the shift to mobile learning, student and faculty content needs, experiential learning (like study-abroad programs), and the impact of COVID on all degree levels.
- AACSB Resource Guide (archived, last updated 2012)This guide includes a bibliography on the AACSB accreditation conference from 1998 through 2010 and examples of library accreditation reports from three institutions dated 1998-1999.
- The Future of BRASS - Grace Liu, Academic BRASSIn July 2018, facing declining revenues and potential restructuring of RUSA, the BRASS Executive Committee charged the Future of BRASS Task Force to consider all possible scenarios, along with the pros and cons of each, for the future of BRASS. The Task Force shared its results in January 2019 (BRASS, 2019). This article takes another look at BRASS by focusing on its purpose and future potential, reasoning that the future of BRASS is less dependent on where we belong than on what we do and how we do it as a professional organization.
- AACSB Continuing Accreditation & Bibliometrics: A Librarian's JourneyThe business librarian at William & Mary proposed using data from SciVal (and Scopus, as the primary index) to answer questions about the impact of faculty scholarship for the AACSB Continuous Improvement Review.
