Author Archives: Nancy Turner

My Library Assessment Adventures

I have just returned from 5 days in Seattle, Washington to attend the 2014 Library Assessment Conference: Building Effective, Sustainable, Practical Assessment. This is a biennial gathering (now 600 attendees strong) and is sponsored by the Association of Research Libraries … Continue reading

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Exploring Faculty Preferences for E or Print

Fred Rowland (librarian for Classics, Religion and Philosophy) in the RIS department conducted a survey recently on the format preferences for reading scholarly materials. Assessment Librarian Nancy Turner asks him about his project. NT: What was your question? FR: I … Continue reading

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Assessing How We Process Special Collections

Katy Rawdon (Librarian and Coordinator of Technical Services) in the Special Collections Research Center initiated an assessment project in the technical services area of Special Collections. Assessment Librarian Nancy Turner asked her about this project. NT: What were you trying … Continue reading

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Welcome!

Welcome to the Temple University Libraries blog Assessment on the Ground! The purpose of this blog is to share stories of assessment conducted by library staff here at Temple. We hope to model best practices and also demonstrate the many … Continue reading

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