The Columbia University Libraries recently opened the Assessment Forums speakers series to the public. You can now access presentations and podcasts of the Forums online.
Columbia University Libraries Assessment Forums are an opportunity for staff at the Libraries and our colleagues in the community to learn about successful assessment projects at nearby college and university libraries. [...]
In October, I was lucky enough to attend the very first “Undergraduate Research Practices Workshop” hosted by CLIR and run by Nancy Fried Foster from the University of Rochester. One of our topics was “Asking Good Questions,” and during the discussion I offered up the process we use here at Columbia. I hope some [...]
There are a number of assessment presentations, panels, and workshops being featured at ACRL Conference 2009 in March. Take a look at the conference program, and search for “assessment” to find a session. Many ACRL conference sessions will also be available for “virtual” attendance. Ask ACRL for more information.
Find an ACRL assessment session: http://www.eshow2000.com/acrl/2009/conference_program.cfm
Last night I was speaking to a group of library school students about assessment, and realized that I’m not sure how demographics are collected when public libraries participate in LibQual+. What demographic categories are included, rather than faculty, undergraduate, etc.? Does anyone have some insight into this matter?
Additionally, we’re considering sending the survey to the [...]
In an effort to be a little “green” at this conference, Columbia is posting a link to its poster session, “Building an Assessment Program at Columbia University Libraries: Year One,” rather than producing handouts.
This poster session highlights early successes of the assessment program, describes the process of researching and writing an assessment plan, illustrates [...]
The Columbia University Libraries is looking for speakers for the triannual CUL Assessment Forum. The CUL Assessment Forum is a semesterly opportunity for library staff at to learn about successful assessment projects and assessment trends in academic libraries. We host speakers from tri-state area who give presentations on assessment work they’ve done in their [...]
At Columbia University Libraries I work with staff members from 25+ different libraries and departments to develop assessment tools to meet their information needs. I’m finally at the point where I’ve begun to assess our assessment program (!) by soliciting feedback from my “clients” on staff. I’m hoping others might be doing the same, and [...]
aka. “Assessment Boot camp”
Here I sit with my thirty-odd pages of notes from the jam-packed 5 days of data analysis training that took place in New Orleans a couple of weeks ago; allow me to decipher the details of qualitative and quantitative methods of assessment and their application for analyzing service quality data for you.
Part [...]
Any Assessment Librarians willing to share their job description with me (or the world)? If so, send me an email or post a comment to this blog. This will be used to inform the ongoing evolution of my own job description. (At the moment, my position is not in the “librarian” category, though I [...]
Was it everything I expected? Yes. Was it everything I hoped for? Well, not quite. But, I’ll give it some time.
Seattle, WA – not bad for my first big, national conference (being from New York). I really enjoy Seattle, and have family there, so I signed up right away. Truthfully, this wasn’t really my [...]
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