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Assessing The Research Process Improves The Product: Results Of A Faculty-­Librarian Collaboration, Divonna M. Stebick, Janelle L. Wertzberger, Margaret E. Flora, Joseph W. Miller

Janelle Wertzberger

When an education professor and a reference librarian sought to improve the quality of undergraduate student research, their partnership led to a new focus on assessing the research process in addition to the product. In this study, we reflect on our collaborative experience introducing information literacy as the foundation for undergraduate teacher education research. We examine the outcomes of this collaboration, focusing on the assessment of the process. Using a mixed methods approach, we found that direct instruction supporting effective research strategies positively impacted student projects. Our data also suggest that undergraduate students benefit from not only sound research strategies, …

A Tale Of Two Repositories: The Brockport Full Service Model, Kim L. Myers

Kim Myers

There are several models for staffing an Institutional Repository. This presentation discusses the full time manager - full service option that The College at Brockport has chosen. The importance of signature collections and communicating with your stakeholders are also discussed. You can view the presentation given by my fellow panelist, Joshua Beatty, from Plattsburgh here: http://digitalcommons.plattsburgh.edu/lis/3/ .

Assessment Of The Information Literacy Qep: Comparison Of Pre- And Post-Qep Senior Papers, Information Literacy Committee (Trinity University)

Information Literacy Documents

No abstract provided.

Trinity University Qep Grant Recipient Survey Results, Information Literacy Committee (Trinity University)

Information Literacy Documents

No abstract provided.

Move Aside Scotty, Jing Is The Thing: Individualized Student-Created Tutorial Collections, Performance Assessment, And Easy Instructor Feedback, Stephanie Wiegand

LOEX Conference Proceedings 2011

If only Scotty could beam us around the world, to wherever and whenever students need our help… But, wait, there's Jing freeware! Engage students in video creation for performance assessment as they build personalized libraries of research tutorials. But, wait, there's more! Address and correct errors in class assignments in seconds. But, wait, there's more! Create individualized instruction for students not enrolled in information literacy courses and videos as follow-ups to one-shot sessions. Attend this session and discover a new frontier of easy and efficient online video utilization for instruction.

Humor As A Tool For Addressing The Affective Domain During Information Literacy Instruction, Joshua Vossler, John Watts

LOEX Conference Proceedings 2011

Gaining and maintaining student attention during information literacy instruction can be a challenge. To address this challenge, entertainment value, as well as instructional efficacy, ought to be factored into assessment and design of instructional materials. Information literacy instruction should be as much about building bridges with students as it is about imparting useful information and skills. Entertaining while educating (edutaining), promotes student attention and helps build a positive learning environment. In this interactive session, attendees will participate in a practical approach to producing creative and entertaining content for information literacy instruction.

Singing The Praises Of Il: The Case Of A Required Credit-Bearing Il Music Course, Paul J. Neff

LOEX Conference Proceedings 2011

This presentation will focus on Music 228 -- the required credit-bearing discipline-specific information literacy course for undergraduate music students at the Augustana Campus of the University of Alberta in Camrose, Alberta, Canada. Augustana students in both the Bachelor of Arts (Music) and Bachelor of Music degrees are required to take this course (preferably in their 2nd year of study) to graduate. This presentation will include discussion of the course structure, example assignments and practical advice. Commentary will be offered regarding the course components including, but not limited to: understanding information, using the library catalogue, interdisciplinary and subject specific database searching, …

Classroom Assessment Techniques In One-Shot Instruction Sessions: Balancing Teaching, Learning, And Time, Laura Westmoreland Gariepy

LOEX Conference Proceedings 2011

Librarians who teach one-shot instruction sessions often find it difficult to make time for assessment at the expense of teaching content. This session will discuss how librarians can use Classroom Assessment Techniques to not only quickly assess student learning and improve teaching, but also enhance student learning. The presentation will focus on one-shot instruction sessions; however, the principles will apply to a variety of instructional settings.

Participants will explore a variety of Classroom Assessment Techniques (CATs): exercises and activities administered in the classroom to assess student learning. As opposed to many large scale assessment instruments that demonstrate what students have …

Benchmarking And Pondering Aserl Interlibrary Loan Operations, 2010 And 2013 (Executive Summary), David P. Atkins, Judy Greenwood, Pam King

David P Atkins

In 2010 and 2013, members of the Association of Southeastern Research Libraries (ASERL) were surveyed to identify benchmarks and programs to support resource sharing. This study compared and contrasted the two surveys using mixed methods data analysis in assessing performance and identifying challenges and trends in interlibrary loan (ILL) operations.

Response rates varied: 2010 = 84%; 2013 = 74%. This report also uses ILL filled volume data collected annually by ASERL. This summary presents the following findings and implications: transaction volumes; staffing levels; campus document delivery; issues and challenges; and ILL organizational schemes. ASERL can use these issue areas as …

Assessment With An Ipad: Access Services And Creative Technology, Micquel Little

Lavery Library Faculty/Staff Publications

Access Services departments hold the key to valuable library statistics, services, staff, and technology. Learn how St. John Fisher College’s Access Services department is supporting the library’s strategic goals, assessment initiatives, and value added output simply by utilizing key technologies: ILL software, iPads, Googledocs, and more.

Mapping For Change: Re-Imagining Assessment With Concept Maps, Heidi Gauder, Fred W. Jenkins

Roesch Library Faculty Presentations

Facilitate student creativity and assess information skills at the same time with concept maps. Learn how to administer these easy assessments and analyze them for evidence of learning. The presenters will demonstrate how this assessment technique can be used in multiple situations and how it is possible to transform these maps into results that can be easily understood by stakeholders.

Scaling Up: Hybrid Instruction, Ilana R. Barnes, Mary Dugan

Libraries Faculty and Staff Presentations

A major strategic initiative of Purdue University is to meet head-on the critical issues facing students on today's campus. Student learning, and retention and completion rates are among the top concerns. To meet these challenges, Purdue is adopting a university-wide core curriculum including an information literacy requirement, which is a mainstay to lifelong learning. Additionally, to address student success issues Purdue has created "Instruction Matters: Purdue Academic Course Transformation" (IMPACT). IMPACT has been a successful collaborative effort of several Purdue departments to engage students more fully in their own learning. Since its inception, library faculty have taken a leadership role …

Increasing Diversity In The Profession: What Works?, Judy Sackett

Library Presentations

Library leaders and professional organizations have for some time viewed increased diversity in the library profession as a positive goal. However, the ALA Office for Research & Statistics reports that fewer than 12% of ALA members responding to a 2012 demographic survey self-selected their race/family origin as non-White. This program will look at the various strategies being employed to increase diversity in the library profession and to assess the success of those efforts.

How To Read 200,000 Publications: Vivo And The Intelligent Evaluation Of Scholarship, John Mark Ockerbloom, Anne Seymour

John Mark Ockerbloom

VIVO and the data that it manages enable a variety of new mechanisms for analyzing and evaluating the scholarship of individuals and organizations. These mechanisms provide both opportunities and dangers.

As critics of overuse of impact factors, magazine rankings, and student survey scores know, it can be tempting to rely on short-cuts. Aggregation and automated analysis of readily available data, used wisely, can reveal important information that can help assess and improve scholarly impact. Used unwisely, however, it can replace the thoughtful assessment of scholarly quality with quick comparisons of mechanically-generated scores that may have little to do with the …

Assessment Of Competencies Of Professional Librarians In Nigeria., Michael Onuchukwu Okoye

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

Abstract

This paper traced origin of library and information science education in Nigeria to the advent of new technologies in academic libraries. It investigated professional competencies that are currently expected of library professionals in academic libraries. The population comprised 89 professionals in South East of Nigeria Federal Universities. Copies of a structured questionnaire were used for data collection from respondents. Sixty-three (63) responses were received giving a response rate of 70.79%. The study centered on knowledge-based and skills’-based acquisition. It also presented qualitative treatment of attitude. Data collected were analyzed using percentages, mean scores and correlation coefficient. Findings of the …

Aserl Interlibrary Loan Best Practices Survey, 2013, David P. Atkins, Judy Greenwood, Pam Whaley

David P Atkins

This is a library and information needs assessment survey of the Association of Southeastern Research Libraries and ASERL's partner institutions. The results will assist ASERL in identifying programming and project areas to support resource sharing. This survey is an updated reprise of ASERL's 2010 ILL survey.

Sketching Success: Assessing Learning Outcomes With Concept Maps, Heidi Gauder, Fred W. Jenkins

Fred W Jenkins

Learn how one library uses concept maps to conduct both quick and in-depth assessments of student learning. This technique evolved into a more formal assessment with pre- and post-testing for both one-shot instruction sessions and semester-long research classes. After transcribing the concepts to spreadsheets, librarians standardize the terms and map them to ACRL Information Literacy Standards for more rigorous analysis and assessment. Discover how concept maps can be easily utilized for assessment.

What Are We Really Doing To Market Electronic Resources?, Marie R. Kennedy

Marie R. Kennedy

Purpose: This research identifies which marketing activities libraries are using to promote electronic resources and examines how libraries are measuring the successes or failures of their marketing plans.

Methodology: This research analyzes the literature published in library science on marketing techniques for electronic resources in use at libraries; the corpus is composed of 24 documents published from 1994-2009. The literature is qualitatively analyzed to determine the techniques in use, the libraries’ goals, targeted groups, budgets, and assessments of their marketing plans.

Findings: Thirty-eight unique marketing techniques were discovered in the 24 documents consulted for this research. The four most popular …

Library-Faculty-Vendor Partnership To Create Stem Digital Learning Activities, Dianna Magnoni, Jackie Laplaca Ricords

Proceedings of the IATUL Conferences

Olin College of Engineering’s Library staff set a 2013 academic year goal to transform their instructional program. Grounded in ACRL standards and ABET accreditation criteria, the program would become workshop-based, combining classroom experiences with digital exercises and tools.

Library Director Magnoni began work with a materials science faculty member to design a research rubric for the digital exercise. Following a brainstorming session, a broad outline was created. Magnoni turned the outline into a diagram, and then created the initial exercise as well as a set of research tips for use with the course subject guide. Both the faculty member and …

Sketching Success: Assessing Learning Outcomes With Concept Maps, Heidi Gauder, Fred W. Jenkins

Roesch Library Faculty Presentations

Learn how one library uses concept maps to conduct both quick and in-depth assessments of student learning. This technique evolved into a more formal assessment with pre- and post-testing for both one-shot instruction sessions and semester-long research classes. After transcribing the concepts to spreadsheets, librarians standardize the terms and map them to ACRL Information Literacy Standards for more rigorous analysis and assessment. Discover how concept maps can be easily utilized for assessment.

The Forgotten Population: Using Assessment To Uncover The Library Needs Of Graduate Students, Melissa Vetter, Tara Baillargeon, Regina Beard, Pat Berge

University Libraries Presentations

Graduate student library needs often differ from those of undergraduates and faculty. Focus groups at three separate institutions seek to better understand the needs of a user population whose demands are often great, but whose voices are not always heard. Presenters will highlight commonalities and differences in the findings, identify opportunities for libraries to better serve this population and suggest methods for taking what is learned about graduate student needs and translating them into action.

Educational Effectiveness Assessment Plan, M. Sara Lowe

Library Staff Publications and Research

Information on Claremont Colleges Library educational effectiveness Assessment Plan

The Rubric: An Assessment Odyssey., Elisa Slater Acosta, Susan Archambault

LMU Librarian Publications & Presentations

No abstract provided.

The Rubric: An Assessment Odyssey, Elisa Slater Acosta, Susan [Gardner] Archambault

Elisa Slater Acosta

No abstract provided.

The Foundations Of Student Affairs: A Guide To The Profession, Dallas Long

Dallas Long

Student affairs is a large, complex area of campus operations and is comprised of many departments with professionals from a wide variety of educational backgrounds. Long provides a short history of the student affairs profession, followed by an overview of the departments in a typical student affairs division and the responsibilities and goals of the professionals in those departments. Long also describes the values that guide the work of student affairs professionals and the contemporary challenges they face.

Pda, Circulation, And Over-Budget Requests: Harnessing Data To Inform Library Strategies, Antje Mays

Dacus Library Faculty Publications

This article presents the data-rich findings of an experiment with enlisting patron-driven/demand-driven acquisitions (DDA) of ebooks in two ways. The first experiment entailed comparison of DDA eBook usage against newly ordered hardcopy materials’ circulation, both overall and ebook vs. print usage within the same subject areas. Secondly, this study experimented with DDA ebooks as a backup plan for unfunded requests left over at the end of the fiscal year.

Pda, Circulation, And Over-Budget Requests: Harnessing Data To Inform Library Strategies, Antje Mays

Dacus Library Faculty Publications

This article presents the data-rich findings of an experiment with enlisting patron-driven/demand-driven acquisitions (DDA) of ebooks in two ways. The first experiment entailed comparison of DDA eBook usage against newly ordered hardcopy materials’ circulation, both overall and ebook vs. print usage within the same subject areas. Secondly, this study experimented with DDA ebooks as a backup plan for unfunded requests left over at the end of the fiscal year.

Assessment In Practice (Presentation), Rebecca L. Mugridge

University Libraries Faculty Scholarship

This presentation provides some strategies that cataloging managers can use to evaluate and assess the services they offer.

Assessment Strategies For Cataloging Managers (Presentation), Rebecca L. Mugridge

University Libraries Faculty Scholarship

Qualitative assessment activities, when conducted regularly and methodically, can help managers and administrators understand the impact and value of the work that we do for our customers. Are we meeting our customers' needs? Are there services that we could provide but currently do not? What are our customers’ priorities? Are we responsive to their questions and issues? Are we working as effectively as we can? This webinar will explore the use of customer service surveys, focus groups, quality initiatives, benchmarking, and other methods to evaluate and assess the work that we do.

Technical Services Assessment In Pennsylvania Academic Libraries (Presentation), Rebecca L. Mugridge

University Libraries Faculty Scholarship

Academic libraries regularly conduct assessment of library services through the use of rubrics or assessment tools such as LibQual™. Technical services activities are frequently assessed; however, the assessment is typically limited to the evaluation of specific processes. This study was designed to explore assessment activities in Pennsylvania’s academic libraries. The author designed a survey to investigate whether technical services activities are assessed, how they are assessed, who is responsible for assessment of technical services, how the results of assessment activities are shared with others, and how those results are used to improve services or for other purposes.