Hi, all,
I'm Megan Hodge, Head of Student Success at Virginia Commonwealth University Libraries and de facto assessment librarian until we hire one later this year (fingers crossed!). VCU Libraries' current assessment projects include:
- Determining our FY23 assessment objectives for eventual submission to the Provost's Office
- Finalizing our initial compliance report for SACSCOC reaffirmation (we're a couple years behind you and GMU, Kat!)
- Digging into disciplinary and user type differences in our spring 2022 LibQUAL data
Looking forward to learning from you all!
Megan
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Head, Student Success
VCU Libraries | Virginia Commonwealth University
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Original Message:
Sent: 7/21/2022 9:27:00 AM
From: Nancy Turner
Subject: RE: Hello from your new co-conveners Susanna and Paul!
Hi Kat,
Great to hear all that you are doing. Can you share more about the space "micro-assessments" - what does a micro-assessment look like? Seems like something we all should have in our "tool kit" of assessment practice. Thanks in advance.
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[Nancy][Turner]
[Director for Planning, Strategy and Organizational Development]
[Temple University Libraries]
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Original Message:
Sent: Jul 20, 2022 08:45 PM
From: Kathleen Bell
Subject: Hello from your new co-conveners Susanna and Paul!
Hi Everyone, I'm Kat Bell, Head, Assessment and Planning at George Mason University Libraries. I'd like to start by sharing that we finished our SACSCOC Reaffirmation process in May! A big success. Here's what my department and I are working on right now:
- Annual stats season
- Fall microassessments focused on space
- Refining our graduate assistant evaluation process
- Analyzing data from spring surveys, jamboards, and open feedback sessions assessing the experience of our student workers and planning for fall feedback from supervisors (part of Hampton University's Leading the Charge Grant)
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Kathleen Bell
Head, Assessment and Planning
George Mason University
She/Her/Hers
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Original Message:
Sent: Jul 19, 2022 02:44 PM
From: Susanna Cowan
Subject: Hello from your new co-conveners Susanna and Paul!
To the ACRL Assessment Discussion Group community,
Hello from your new co-conveners!
The library assessment community is both broad and diverse, as are the forms of assessment we practice and our individual roles in relation to library assessment at our institutions. Some of us are administrators, some of us sit in assessment-dedicated roles, and others in our community practice assessment as a part of our work in information literacy, research support, outreach, collections, access services, and everything else.
What brings us together here is an interest in library assessment in its many forms. With assessment, we tell stories about ourselves and our work in order to better our organizations and document our reach and impact.
How we do that, day to day, varies greatly depending on the scope of the questions we're asking.
We hope to plan some formal events this year, but also to bring the discussion to life here.
Let's introduce ourselves! Beyond your name and role, we invite you to briefly (2-3 sentences) share assessment projects you're working on right now, no matter the size. Our hope is to shine some light on the tremendous range of our work - and to give us all the chance to say: I'm out here doing this!
To start us off, here's what we're up to this July:
- Susanna: I'm just winding up an internal study of how our staff perceived the pandemic's effect on their work and their ability to provide service to and collaborate with stakeholders. I'm also in the "configuration" stage of LibQUAL and am working with a group to choose our optional (custom) questions… (the dilemma of sky's the limit!)
- Paul: We're looking at data and comments from a user satisfaction survey that we administered during the spring semester that indicated a hospitality gap between our minoritized and white students as well as a number of space issues. We are also working out ways to correlate exposure to library spaces and services with learning outcomes similar to work at UNC-Charlotte as reported in a 2020 paper from Becky Croxton and Anne Moore.
We look forward to getting to know the community better over the course of the year.
Be well,
Susanna Cowan
Coordinator for Library Research & Assessment
University of Connecticut
Paul Orkiszewski
Dean of the Libraries
Radford University
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Susanna Cowan
Coordinator for Library Research & Assessment
University of Connecticut
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