Category Archives: service assessment

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

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LibGuides Usability Testing

Temple Libraries has over 500 LibGuides, or Research Guides. The purpose of the guides is to help library users with some aspect of the research process. Most guides fall into one of three categories – those that offer links or … 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

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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

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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

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“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

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Assessment Drives Decision-Making Process for Health Science Library’s Technology Offerings

Last year I profiled Cynthia Schwarz, Senior Systems & Technology Librarian on her assessment of computer use at the Ginsberg Health Services Library. She was using the software LabStats to analyze the use of computers at the library – the … Continue reading

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The Library in the Life of the User

I had the privilege last week of attending the OCLC Research Partners Meeting on  The Library in the Life of the User – We shared reports on the current state of user research, with a particular focus on qualitative methods … Continue reading

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Drexel’s Service Quality Improvement Initiative Reaps Benefits for Users

John Wiggins, Director of Library Services and Quality, has been engaged with implementing service quality at Drexel University Libraries since 2012. This more systematic attention to quality improvement was initiated by the dean, Danuta Nitecki, and John has steadily built … Continue reading

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Assessment in the Real World

This post was made possible by the excellent notes and input from Laura Chance, temporary art librarian at Paley. Thanks, Laura! Last Friday 12 librarians gathered to talk about feedback received from students participating in the Analytical Reading and Writing … Continue reading

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