Social and Behavioral Sciences Commons^™

Collection Change Is Not A Hoax: Using Assessment To Promote Collection Sustainability, Bruce Keisling

Bruce L. Keisling

What do we mean by collection sustainability and how do we measure it? The presenters will discuss how their institution came to a shared understanding of collection sustainability, to develop key metrics for it, and to identify the qualitative and quantitative assessment data that shapes and measures it.

Re-Zoning Your Library Through Data-Driven Space Allocations, Robert Fox, Bruce Keisling

Bruce L. Keisling

How can you use assessment data to "re-zone" your library's spaces to meet the shifting needs for collections, users, library personnel, campus partners, and institutional priorities? Learn how one library built an assessment program that has informed past and ongoing space reallocations while also seeking to optimize the human and financial resources that are needed to successfully complete and maintain the projects.

Sacred Or Secular? How Student Perceptions May Guide Library Space Design And Utilization, Robert Fox, Bruce Keisling

Bruce L. Keisling

This program reports on a collaborative research study that examined student reactions to various library designs. Building on research into why some library spaces are preferred due to their sacred or inspirational nature, the presenters conducted a study utilizing interior and exterior images of both traditional and modern-looking library spaces. Students were asked to provide their reaction to the spaces, how often and for what purposes they would use such spaces, whether they believed that type of library space would advance the institutional mission, and whether they felt that space was of a sacred/spiritual or secular/non-spiritual nature.

This research will …