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Author Archives: Nancy Turner
Supporting the Needs of Faculty – The Research Services Forum
The Research Services Forum met last week to discuss the recent Ithaka Faculty Survey. Ithaka S+R has conducted a survey of faculty every three years since 2000, providing libraries with a “snapshot of practices and perceptions related to scholarly communications … Continue reading
Report from the Field: NISO Conference on Library Value and Assessment
Steven Bell and I were privileged to participate this week in the NISO virtual conference on Library Value & Assessment. The conference slides are available at: http://www.niso.org/news/events/2016/virtual_conference/apr20_virtualconf/ Presenting virtually, for me at least, was a bit nervous-making. Although we presented … Continue reading
An Assessment of the 2016 Strategic Planning Retreat
Assessment and strategic planning go together – we can’t assess when we don’t know what we’re aiming for. In that spirit, this post reports on the Library/Press 2nd Annual Strategic Action Planning Retreat, hosted by the SAWG16 working group. The … Continue reading
Rush Reserves: A Collaborative Workflow Analysis
This last few months a team of library staff from Access Services, Cataloging & Metadata Services, and Acquisitions & Collection Development have been working behind the scenes to improve our process of Rush Reserves – ensuring that faculty and students … Continue reading
“I Am the Content”: How and Why Instructors Discover and Share Course Readings
This post re-visits a project I blogged about several months ago. I interviewed Jenifer Baldwin (Head of Reference and Instruction Services) Anne Harlow (Librarian for Music, Dance, and Theatre) and Rick Lezenby (Librarian for Psychology and Political Sciences). They were … Continue reading
Notes from the Field: ALA Midwinter 2016
The ALA Midwinter meeting came early this year – seems like we’d just returned from winter break when it was time to prepare for Boston. Data, data visualization, and assessment have become popular topics of discussion and ALA sponsored more … Continue reading
An Assessment Librarian Reflects on 2015
It’s the new year, and a time of reflection. As for me, I’ve been thinking about this ‘new position (relatively) at Temple and changes since I began in 2014. I love what I do, and here are some of the … Continue reading
Assessment Drives Decision-Making Process for Health Science Library’s Technology Offerings
Last year I profiled Cynthia Schwarz, Senior Systems & Technology Librarian on her assessment of computer use at the Ginsberg Health Services Library. She was using the software LabStats to analyze the use of computers at the library – the … Continue reading
Assessment in Atlanta
I recently attended the Southeastern Library Assessment Conference, a great forum that provides us an opportunity to hear about (mostly) academic library assessment activities in the Southeast and beyond. Several sessions related to a topic of special interest to libraries … Continue reading
The Library in the Life of the User
I had the privilege last week of attending the OCLC Research Partners Meeting on The Library in the Life of the User – We shared reports on the current state of user research, with a particular focus on qualitative methods … Continue reading