The Strategic Assessment Committee developed the following plan to set a direction for library assessment projects, both formative and summative. See Assessment & User Experience to learn more about who we are and what we do.
Assessment Plans
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| Library Workshops-Demographics Dashboard | This project is a collaboration between the library and Institutional Research & Planning to match library workshop data with anonymized Registrar data. The goal is to gain a clearer picture of which students are accessing library academic and professional skills support-- by academic program, college, and year of study. The data will be used to identify gaps, contribute to library planning, and provide better reporting for assessment and accreditation. Strategic Priorities: Adopt Evidence-based Practices |
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| Data Inventory | An updated inventory containing all the data library teams are collecting will help us:
Strategic Priorities: Adopt Evidence-based Practices |
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| Library Consultations –Student + Patron Demographics dashboard | This project follows a similar model as the Library Workshops-Demographics Dashboard Project. We will work with Institutional Research and Planning to integrate our data with student data resulting in a Tableau dashboard to help us:
Strategic Priorities: Adopt Evidence-based Practices |
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| Centralize Data | The goal of this project is to have one place where all data is stored from all library teams. A place where anyone with permissions could access the data at any time in an easy, accessible, user-friendly way. This would help support evidence-based decision-making. The technical decisions and processes for this project may fall outside our direct influence so we envision collaborating with Library and Central IT. Strategic Priorities: Adopt Evidence-based Practices |
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| Longitudinal Survey | What did we lose when we stopped using LibQual? Many libraries with good reputations in the assessment world issue annual or biennial surveys to check-in with users and get a longitudinal picture of the library overall. The results would provide a baseline to help us make informed decisions, and give us ideas of where we need to do further exploration through more focused assessment and/or UX studies. Strategic Priorities: Adopt Evidence-based Practices; Foster an Inclusive and Engaged Staff Culture; Contribute to Strategic Campus Initiatives |
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| Reimagining External Reporting Workflows | This project hopes to make the process of external data reporting more streamlined. This could include a single common spreadsheet which shows:
Strategic Priorities: Foster an Inclusive and Engaged Staff Culture. |
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| Annual Team Reports | Creating annual team reports could be a way to think about each team’s work holistically, especially with teams that have their own silos. The reports could help us:
Strategic Priorities: Foster an Inclusive and Engaged Staff Culture |
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| Stories of Impact | How can we gather and keep track of the stories of how staff made a difference for users, and what can we do with these stories? How can we tap into insights beyond the metrics we collect quantitatively? Strategic Priorities: Adopt Evidence-based Practices; Contribute to Strategic Campus Initiatives |
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| Data Sharing with University Colleges | How might we support reciprocal relations with the Colleges by proactively sharing data and insights about how we support students and faculty with each of them? How can they share data and insights about their student needs that could inform our programming? This could include:
Strategic Priorities: Adopt Evidence-based Practices; Contribute to Strategic Campus Initiatives |
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| Reporting Learning Objects | This project would entail further discussions around how we report learning objects. This project is inter-connected with a number of other topics including findability, Accessibility, and library branding. Strategic Priorities: Adopt Evidence-based Practices |
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