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Author Archives: Nancy Turner
Speaking of Scholarly Communication: Interviews with Faculty
Last week staff from Reference & Instruction, Access Services, the Press, Digital Scholarship Center, Special Collections, Digital Library Initiatives, and Library Administration gathered for a conversation to share findings from a series of interviews we librarians had this past spring. … Continue reading
Reports from the Field: Assessment Discussion Group at ALA
The ACRL Assessment Discussion Group meeting is always a bright spot at the ALA conference. The group, with a discussion list of over 400+, suggests topics of interest: this year we talked about assessment of space in libraries and how … Continue reading
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Assessment and Games Intersect with Diamond Eyes
This spring Temple University Libraries commissioned a special project as part of the programming year’s theme of Games and Gaming. Nicole Restaino, Manager of Communications and Public Programming, worked with Drexel’s Entrepreneurial Game Studio as they developed a hybrid work … Continue reading
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