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Category Archives: assessment methods
Assessment Anytime, Anywhere
Yesterday’s staff carnival was a fun affair – lots of opportunity to meet new colleagues and learn about all the different areas of the libraries and press. Thank you Continuing Education Committee! The Library’s Assessment Committee hosted a table, nicely … Continue reading
Posted in organization culture and assessment, surveys
Tagged ARL, assessment, fun, surveys
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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
“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
Improving the Discoverability of our Digital Collections
Doreva Belfiore, Digital Projects Librarian, invests much of her time improving access to digital collections and making these collections findable on the open web. I talked with her recently about how her work helps to enhance the discoverability of Temple’s … Continue reading
Gathering Feedback on the Library’s Public Programs
The latest Assessment in the Real World discussion focused on the feedback survey that goes out to attendees at the Libraries’ Beyond the Page public programs. 11 library staff members participated in a discussion with Nicole Restaino (Manager, Library Communications … Continue reading
Posted in data-driven decision making, surveys
Tagged programming assessment, surveys
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Faculty Seeking Course Content – A Qualitative Research Project
Many Temple Library Staff, particularly those in RIS, are already familiar with the qualitative research project that Jenifer Baldwin, Anne Harlow and Rick Lezenby have been working on for the last two years. (Yes, qualitative research, at this depth, takes … Continue reading
Gathering Patron Feedback at the Charles L. Blockson Afro-American Collection
This month I met with Diane Turner, Curator of the Charles L. Blockson Afro-American Collection at Temple University Libraries. This post illustrates the idea that assessment doesn’t have to be complicated to be useful and it doesn’t need to take … Continue reading
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