How do we heighten the observational powers of our organizations and with that, the capacity of those organizations to learn?

I hope to have a set of slides up for view in a day. So stay posted for that link.

In the meantime, would you share with me and others what you’d like to take away from this session. Some questions have include:
Has your library started work on large-scale data collection?
If so, what have you learned?
If not, what sorts of constraints are you experiencing?
Does business intelligence capability fit into your library’s strategic plan?
If it does, where do you hope to be in three years?
Looking forward to your feedback and a deeper dive on Wednesday.
–jz

I’d like to suggest that everyone review ACRL’s Standards for Libraries in Higher Education so that it is fresh: http://www.ala.org/acrl/standards/standardslibraries

Also, if you could review the library and library-related components of your own regional accreditation agency that would be useful in supplying discussion fodder : )

See everyone soon!

“Duke has just gone live with a new program, a collaboration between our Development/Communications staff and IT, to show the naming opportunities available in our various library buildings in a new, interactive way. …. It does make it much easier to show potential donors what is available to be named (previously that information was only available on paper or in a very large file). ”

http://library.duke.edu/support/naming/opportunities/

Purdue reports some of the publishing part that is more closely aligned to the library operations.

It seems that in some instances the publishing leg of the organization is more integrated into the library operations.

It remains to be seen whether this integration will spread to other institutions where both the press and the library report to the same leader.

http://www.arl.org/bm~doc/preservationjan2011.pdf

If you are still looking for someone to share the hotel costs with, please let me know. Thanks!
schyndel@fau.edu

Synthesis of feedback to Fellows’ presentation of themes emerging from Qualitative Profiles.

Collaborative Collection Development
• Collect measures that help us satisfy accountability to legislators, administrators, etc.
Development and Fundraising
• A quantitative measure would be of interest
• Attention to how funds are used.
• Human capital as a measure*
o How development staff are hired, paid, how their time is spent

Digitization/Digital publishing
• Differentiate roles of library as author/host.
• Expressed frustration with supplementary statistics
o When methods at home change but supplementary statistics does not accommodate
o Need to capture how resources are being used
o Definitions need to be refined, not actually getting at the heart of the matter.

E-Science
• Trend worth exploring in light of NSF declaration assertion

Instruction:
• Expand collection of data to include asynchronous activity.
• Consider a way to capture the effort expended on development of materials.
o Mention of Lib Guides, a hosted service.
• Develop a metric that illustrates impact on the audience.

Staffing changes and changing roles*
• If buying aggregated packages what is role of subject specialist?
o In general, changing roles in libraries
• Organizational structures how are they changing?

General
• Impact should be a guiding principal in collection of statistics.
• Must justify time spent; don’t put more time and effort into gathering data than value of data merits.
• Some topics may be more appropriate for Spec Kit surveys.
• Need different stats that measure trends
• Link measures to ARL strategic plan.
• Quantitative measures should be comparable over time and contribute to a national context.
• Must understand why people are using the measures in order to take a good measurement