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Killing It: Successful Strategies To Boost Your Culture Of Assessment, Emily Guhde, Chad Haefele

Southeastern Library Assessment Conference

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Are We There Yet? Using A Modified Post Occupancy Evaluation To Assess Space Renovation, Maurini Strub, Melissa Laning

Southeastern Library Assessment Conference

Using a modified Post Occupancy Evaluation method, this session examines the functional performance of a space, 15 months post renovation. Data collected was used to evaluate aesthetics and image, comfort, adaptability, and relationships within the renovated space, as well as completeness and capacity of services and spaces.

Strategic Assessment: Aligning With Your University's Strategic Plan, Kathryn Crowe

Southeastern Library Assessment Conference

Aligning strategic planning and assessment with the university's plan is an excellent way to demonstrate the library's value and contribution. Learn how to develop goals, metrics and assessments that support the university's plan.

Using Culture To Cultivate Conversations: Lessons Learned From Whiteboard Ethnographic Research, Sojourna Cunningham, Anna Sandelli

Southeastern Library Assessment Conference

This presentation will report on the outcomes of a longitudinal collaboration between the University of Richmond and the University of Tennessee, Knoxville libraries to create, scale, and sustain an ethnographic research project utilizing open-ended questions posted on whiteboards. Presenters will highlight methods of coding and communicating large amounts of data to disparate communities and share lessons learned regarding participatory assessment projects, space usage and the ways in which culture should inform the creation of strategic ethnographic projects.

Assessment And Location Based Services In The Georgia Tech Library, Liz Holdsworth

Southeastern Library Assessment Conference

Location-based services (LBS) is a projected integration of library services and space with mobile devices. Assessment of user needs was essential in designing the web application due to the expectations of the Georgia Tech community. The collected aggregate data from the project has great potential to provide information about the use of the library and foster campus research collaborations.

Emory Libraries Assessment Office: A Collaborative Model For Assessment, Lars Meyer, Pat Culpepper, Oana Tudorancea

Southeastern Library Assessment Conference

Emory University Libraries Assessment Office, in partnership with Emory's Office of Institutional Research (IR) discuss a collaborative model for library assessment. The presentation includes a discussion of Emory's Assessment Integration Group (AIG), the partnership between AIG and IR, and the use of Tableau Server for communicating Library Survey results.

How Can Researchers' Browsing Behaviors Inform Library Space-Planning?, Sarah Pickle

Southeastern Library Assessment Conference

This study is an in-depth, qualitative analysis of the ways academics at the Claremont Colleges browse library materials, both print and electronic, for their research. Many academic libraries today are struggling with the question of how best to accommodate the quantity of print materials they routinely acquire as those volumes increasingly strain the capacity of their physical spaces. It is hoped this project will help these institutions identify which subject-based collections and which format types researchers need to have immediately accessible for physical perusal and which they can browse productively online.

Time Crunch: How To Fit Assessment Into An Already Packed Lesson, Liz Johns, Sara Oestreich

Southeastern Library Assessment Conference

Learning assessment can be daunting for a librarian who wants to try it out for the first time, or too time consuming for librarians who only get a few minutes with students. But this practical program introduces librarians to common, easy, and quick formative assessments that can immediately be implemented into even the shortest of sessions. This session will help librarians identify key points in example lessons where formative assessment can be inserted, and brainstorm ways to implement the assessments in an effective way.

Assessment On Solid Ground: Collaboration Between Universities And Academic Libraries In The Context Of A Continuous Improvement Plan, Michael Luther, Jen Wells

Southeastern Library Assessment Conference

Within the context of Kennesaw State University's Continuous Improvement Plan (Improve KSU), the presenters will demonstrate how broad assessments at the university level intersect with the deep dive assessments that are common in academic libraries, and how strong partnerships between university and library assessment professionals can foster symbiotic opportunities.

If You Can't Expand, How Can You Grow? Space Assessment Studies In The Academic Library, Regina Mays, Rachel Fleming-May, Kristina Clement, Brianne Dosch, Alexa Carter, Lauren Johnson, Sian Carr, Jordan Kaufman

Southeastern Library Assessment Conference

As space in libraries is usually finite and in high demand, how can librarians ensure the best allocation of space to meet users' ever growing and changing needs? A team from the University of Tennessee's School of Information Sciences and Libraries designed and implemented two academic library space assessment studies to find meaningful answers to these questions as well as learn the principles, methods, and tools of space design and space assessment, many of which they will share with session attendees!

Using Feminist Pedagogy To Create Meaningful Assessment For Learning In One-Shot Library Sessions, Jennifer Foley

Southeastern Library Assessment Conference

This session will explore the use of formative assessment strategies and Feminist Pedagogical practices to positively impact student learning, and increase the effectiveness of one-shot library instruction sessions. By embracing a democratic approach to teaching, there are a variety of methods for assessment that can improve student cognitive retention, offer immediate feedback, and give insight into the quality and effectiveness of your own teaching.

Post-It Up: Qualitative Data Analysis Of A Test Fest, Sarah Joy Arnold, Chad Haefele

Southeastern Library Assessment Conference

This session will outline how we planned and executed five simultaneous usability tests and what we learned from using this method. We'll also discuss how we approached analyzing the large amount of qualitative data that was gathered during testing via affinity diagrams and lots of post-it notes. The focus of this session is on our methodologies, though we'll briefly look at the results of each test.

We Have A Strategic Plan - Now What?!, Regina Mays, Michelle Brannen, Manda Sexton

Southeastern Library Assessment Conference

With a new strategic plan in hand, the University of Tennessee Libraries has formed a small task force charged with keeping the organization focused on its strategic goals and tracking progress made toward these goals in a systematic way. In this session, members of this task force will report on our process and progress thus far, share the tools we've developed to track and report activity throughout the organization, and engage in a conversation about approaches to creating support and excitement for the strategic plan you worked so hard to create.

Assessment Triple Play: Intense Evaluation Of First Year Students' Information Literacy Skills, Nancy Greco, Christina Hillman

Southeastern Library Assessment Conference

Which assessment is best: programmatic, classroom, or longitudinal? By collaborating with the First Year Program faculty, the St. John Fisher College Library uses a combination of all three, giving us the most holistic view of our college students' information literacy skills. Learn how to combine data from classroom assessment, end of semester course evaluation, and longitudinal standardized testing to tell a story about student learning.

Simplifying The Process: Using Technology To Integrate Event And Program Assessment From Start To Finish, Heather White, Amanda Mclellan

Southeastern Library Assessment Conference

Event assessment shouldn't be painful or mysterious, so how can we leverage technology to demystify and simplify program and event assessment? This session targets libraries interested in reflecting on their own event and program assessment and how an open-source application may help streamline their processes. This session will illustrate how we identified problems and used technology and thoughtful planning to streamline and demystify the event planning and assessment, resulting in an open-source application that handles event/program requests, approvals, and pre-generated assessment forms.

Georgia Tech Library Assessment: Creating And Sharing A Custom-Made Assessment Tool, Matt Frizzell, Jason Wright

Southeastern Library Assessment Conference

After using LibQual+ for nearly 15 years, in 2016 the Georgia Tech Library's Assessment Committee decided to strike out on its own and create an assessment tool better suited to its unique needs.

This presentation delves into the committee's design decisions, methodology, and analysis with a summative view of results. Importantly, you'll learn how results are being used to demonstrate and improve organizational effectiveness.

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

Southeastern Library Assessment Conference

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.

What Do They Need?: Collecting Meaningful And Actionable Data Through A User-Centered Needs Assessment, Mary Anne Hansen, David Swedman

Southeastern Library Assessment Conference

Relying on the power of R and NVivo, Montana State University Library researchers were able to identify user needs from a vast array of data in order to make recommendations for new library services and resources, including more personalized outreach to new students and a concentrated communications campaign.

So You Are A New Assessment Librarian - What Do You Need To Know?, Ron Schwertfeger, Chantelle Swaren

Southeastern Library Assessment Conference

Hear from assessment librarians who each hold dual roles in academic libraries about how to approach the role of an assessment librarian. Discover their lessons learned regarding incorporating assessment activities in all departments within the library and using assessment data to plan library initiatives.

Emerging From The Project! Evolving Views Of Emory's Library Use System, Susan Bailey, Megan Slemons

Southeastern Library Assessment Conference

Beginning in 2014, Emory University’s Robert W. Woodruff Library initiated a project to connect entry card swipe data to demographic data within a locally created system . The system provides data visualizations as well as file export functionality. This project has involved developing a process for collecting and analyzing the data and presenting the results it in a way that can enable data-driven decision making.

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

Southeastern Library Assessment Conference

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.

Seeing Is Believing: Conducting Observational Studies To Evaluate Space And Service Design, Joyce Chapman

Southeastern Library Assessment Conference

This talk discusses how Duke Libraries staff have integrated observational data assessment into space and service design over the past year using the open-source, mobile, assessment tool Suma to collect and analyze a variety of data sources.

Getting To Culture: Strategies For Creating A Culture Of Assessment, Maurini Strub, Samantha Mcclellan

Southeastern Library Assessment Conference

Crucial to gathering data that supports desired organizational changes is ensuring stakeholder buy-in and the creation of meaningful spaces for feedback. This presentation will focus on mapping strategies used in the corporate world in feedback spaces to create a culture of assessment.

Assessment Data: Building Blocks For Strong Libraries And Successful Accreditation Reports, Kathryn Crowe, Crystal Baird

Southeastern Library Assessment Conference

Want to learn how to leverage your assessment program for accreditation and develop effective compliance reports for your library? Join this interactive session from a librarian and institutional effectiveness professional from an accrediting agency and an assessment librarian who authored a library’s accreditation documents.

Baking A Cake With No Recipe: Mixing Methods For Discovery Layer Assessment, Ebony Magnus, Hui Hua Chua

Southeastern Library Assessment Conference

In August 2014, Michigan State University Libraries implemented Summon and a team of librarians from various units was assembled to assess the usage and usability of the discovery layer. Bringing unique perspectives and experiences, the team employed a range of methodologies including text analysis, quantitative analysis, usability testing, and web analytics. This presentation will: review the methodologies and tools that were used; consider the importance of examining the results of each method in concert; and also share findings from the first year of data collection and analysis.

Community Efforts To Develop Best Practices In Digital Library Assessment: One Year Of Progress, Joyce Chapman

Southeastern Library Assessment Conference

In 2014 the Digital Library Federation (DLF) Assessment Interest Group developed a Digital Library Assessment Framework and began engaging the community in the development of best practices and guidelines around digital library assessment. This presentation will address the progress of the interest group in its first year. We will provide background information on the DLF Assessment Interest Group, outline the collaborative methods used to document common practices and to develop best practices, and solicit audience feedback on the group’s methodology and results to date.

Finding The Missing Piece: Communicating Library Value To Complete The Assessment Puzzle, Amanda B. Albert

Southeastern Library Assessment Conference

Library assessment is like putting together a puzzle with many pieces, and some of these pieces can be forgotten or even lost. This presentation provides attendees with the missing puzzle piece they need to begin using their assessment data to actively engage stakeholders through library value conversations. The presenter will establish the importance of communicating assessment findings and library impact to stakeholders, and arm attendees with effective communication tools and strategies for communicating library value at their institution.

Defendable, Persuasive, And Insightful Budget Analysis Methods, Brian Keith

Southeastern Library Assessment Conference

As universities adopt budgeting models and concepts borrowed from business, libraries are pressured to assess and justify their budgets using the most persuasive and defendable methods possible. Attendees will learn innovative assessment techniques which allow for a rational examination of library funding across institutions. The numerous approaches, including linear regression (with results with high correlation coefficients), can be readily replicated and allow libraries to assess the resources of their system in comparison to demand indicators for their university.

Wrangling The Megalith: Mapping The Data Ecosystem Of The Harvard Library, Mark Shelton

Southeastern Library Assessment Conference

Understanding how to map a library's data ecosystem is critical to helping manage the variety of data sources that describe the library and its work. Mapping the kinds of data, its source, and the people involved is only the beginning, yet the challenges faced can offer opportunities when it comes to supporting strategic planning.

Participatory User Experience At The Michigan State University Libraries, Ebony Magnus

Southeastern Library Assessment Conference

Participatory design is an excellent way to engage the user, increase sense of ownership, and complete projects that might not otherwise fit into a busy librarian’s schedule. In spring 2015, the User Experience team at Michigan State University Libraries had the good fortune of partnering with undergraduates to work on two space-related projects. This presentation will consider the benefits of engaging student stakeholders as design consultants, and presenters will share the impressive results of the two student-led user experience projects.