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Author Archives: Nancy Turner
Temple University Libraries Overhead Survey Enters Its 4th Month
Temple Library staff members may have noticed yellow paper surveys floating about the building or seen Jim Bongiovanni’s e-mail messages about the web survey launched each month for users of proxied library resources. These are part of the “Overhead” or … Continue reading
Survey of Teacher Education Faculty
Jackie Sipes is the Education Liaison and Emerging Technologies Librarian in Research and Instruction Services (Paley Library). Towards the end of the spring semester, Jackie conducted a survey of the faculty in the department of teacher education. Nancy Turner asked … Continue reading
David Murray’s Experience as an Embedded Librarian
David Murray (librarian for History, Latin America, Spanish & Portuguese) in the RIS department partnered with faculty member Ron Webb to teach The Legacy of Mesoamerica this spring. In this conversation with Assessment Librarian Nancy Turner, he describes his work … Continue reading
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
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
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
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