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The Possibilities Are Measurable: Evaluating Innovation, Learning, And Strategic Within Library Technology Units, Rick A. Stoddart, Evviva Weinraub
The Possibilities Are Measurable: Evaluating Innovation, Learning, And Strategic Within Library Technology Units, Rick A. Stoddart, Evviva Weinraub
Rick A Stoddart
Objective: An essential contributor to library value is found within library systems, web services, and emerging technologies departments. Often these areas of library services are overlooked by traditional assessment measures. Assessing the impact of units engaged in library instruction, reference, and circulation are relatively well established. However, library technology departments, who provide the backbone upon which these other units rest, are significantly more difficult to gather appropriate evidence, metrics and measures of importance. Library technology departments provide essential services and expertise that certainly influence student learning, researcher productivity, and library innovation but documenting this impact remains a challenge. In order …
It's Just Plain Common(S) Sense: Grounding Space Planning In Evidence-Based Research, Melanie Mills
It's Just Plain Common(S) Sense: Grounding Space Planning In Evidence-Based Research, Melanie Mills
Melanie Mills
The Graduate Resource Centre (GRC) at The University of Western Ontario (Western) is a special library independently operated by the Faculty of Information and Media Studies (FIMS). Exclusively serving the communities of FIMS four graduate programs – Journalism, Media Studies, Library and Information Science and Popular Music and Culture – the GRC has a well-established and longstanding tradition of supporting teaching and learning excellence at FIMS. As Western’s youngest and fastest growing Faculty, FIMS quickly outgrew its existing space on campus. Plans to relocate the entire Faculty, including its in-house library and information centre, are now underway. The University has …