Category Archives: service assessment

Supporting Big Data Research at Temple: Reflections on the Research Process

Congratulations to the research team that just completed its report on Supporting Big Data Research at Temple University.  Freely available on TU Scholarshare, I think the report will be widely read and have real impact in contributing to the conversation on support … Continue reading

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LibGuide Assessment from the Ground Up

Librarian Rick Lezenby authors many Libguides. In this guest post, Rick shares some insights about assessment and the value of listening to users as we collaborate on tools that support their instruction. Libguides at Temple Libraries are guides to library … Continue reading

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Discovering sources in Library Search: key takeaways from remote user interviews with history students

As a followup to last year’s Browse Prototyping project, Rebecca Lloyd and I conducted remote user interviews with upper level history students in December 2020, just as the fall semester was wrapping up. Using a semi-structured interview technique, we talked … Continue reading

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The Year in Assessment at TULUP: A Celebration

This week I submitted the Libraries’ annual report on assessment activities to the University’s Office of Assessment and Evaluation . It’s a requirement that I don’t particularly relish, as I often feel our approach to assessment at the Libraries is … Continue reading

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The User Experience of Request and Retrieval

Earlier this year, a group was formed to consider ways to improve the user experience of requesting and retrieving items from the Charles Library BookBot. The group was composed of Brian Boling, Carly Hustedt, Karen Kohn, John Oram, Jackie Sipes, … Continue reading

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Working Together for Improvement: The Digital Access Workflow

When the library closed its physical doors in March, new doors of the digital sort opened up. Yet the disruption of access service for physical materials, lasting several months,  has yielded a re-working of processes for how we get our … Continue reading

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The Future on Pause: Reflections on the “How We’re Working at Charles” Project

Last week the Assessment Community of Practice gathered virtually to hear more about the Envisioning our Future project. The session was hosted by research team members Karen Kohn, Rebecca Lloyd, Caitlin Shanley, and myself.  The project was conducted as part … Continue reading

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Supporting Online Learning and Research: Assessing our Virtual Reference Activities

Today’s post is contributed by Olivia Given Castello, Tom Ipri, Kristina De Voe and Jackie Sipes. Thank you! The sudden move to all-online learning at Temple University presented a unique challenge to the Libraries and provided a great opportunity to … Continue reading

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A New Day for Assessment Practice?

It is difficult to believe that in early March we convened the Assessment Community of Practice, joining Margery Sly and Matt Shoemaker to talk about changing needs for assessment measures as we develop new library services. The new Charles Library … Continue reading

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When a Marker is More than a Marker 

User experience is all around us. In libraries, we often think the assessment of user experience relates to web interfaces, or building way finding and navigation. We might, ask, “Is the language that we use on the website clear to … Continue reading

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