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Holistic Onboarding Of A Generation Y Team Member, Rebeca Peacock, Margie Ruppel
Holistic Onboarding Of A Generation Y Team Member, Rebeca Peacock, Margie Ruppel
Library Faculty Publications and Presentations
Onboarding a new faculty librarian should be done holistically, including integrating them into the organization and the team, and incorporating their individual strengths. Approaching onboarding holistically can improve team functionality in terms of communication, workflow, and strategic planning. This chapter focuses on one example: face-to-face onboarding of a new Generation Y instructional design librarian who joined the library at a medium metropolitan research university. Onboarding methods presented include formal campus orientations, weekly check-in meetings, a team building exercise, background information about the library and Instruction Team projects, and additional socialization strategies. A review of the relevant literature is included.
Tracking User Behavior With Google Analytics Events On An Academic Library Website, Amy Vecchione, Deana Brown, Elizabeth Allen, Amanda Baschnagel
Tracking User Behavior With Google Analytics Events On An Academic Library Website, Amy Vecchione, Deana Brown, Elizabeth Allen, Amanda Baschnagel
Library Faculty Publications and Presentations
The primary purpose of an academic library website is to serve as a portal to library-acquired content. Navigational design of a library website affects the user’s ability to find and access content. At Albertsons Library, the goal of the navigational design of the website is to mimic user behavior on the website to help them access information and articles from over 300 different library vendors. Coordinating with different vendors makes tracking the navigational flow of user behavior difficult with the tool Google Analytics. Using the events feature in Google Analytics, the team responsible for web design was able to track …