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A Statistical Approach to Assessing Research Guide Use at Central Washington University
No full textMuch of the existing literature on library research guides, specifically those created using the ubiquitous LibGuides platform, expresses doubt that guides of a subject or topical variety are being used by students to an extent that justifies their creation and maintenance. Guides designed to be used in the context of particular courses are held to be more worthwhile, as they tend to experience more site traffic. This wisdom is tested using data generated by LibGuides’ internal Statistics tool for the Central Washington University library guides in the 2017 calendar year. The metric of asset clicks to page views is used as a rough means of measuring how much guides are used for research purposes. Course guides are scrutinized by comparing site traffic with instructional data, thus gaining an impression of how much students use those guides outside the classroom
Librarians Collaborating with Academic Advisors to Foster Student Success
No full textLibrary workers are exploring ways to provide support to their communities. In this practice-based pilot project, an academic library partnered with academic advisors on a college campus to increase the support services and supportive mechanisms for students. Academic advisors and librarians increased their skills and areas of content expertise, and passed this learning on to the students. By offering a course for reinstated students and academically at-promise students, with a focus on persis-tence and success through failure and trial and error, a partnership between the academic library makerspace and the Advising and Academic Success Center was created. Though more research is needed to determine which strategies are key elements for success, all library workers can benefit their communities through partnerships with support professionals, including counselors, social workers, non-profit agencies, and academic advisors, in order to increase their role in providing support for their community members
Developing Dynamic Leadership in YOUR Library
Get PDFThis paper, converted from a presentation given at the 2017 PNLA Conference in Post Falls, Idaho, briefly examines four areas that library professionals, regardless of experience, education level, station or title, can begin cultivating in order to better hone leadership skills. The four topics of: communica-tion, accountability and expectations, failure, and initiative and creativity are by no means an all-inclusive list of areas needing to be examined when honing leadership skills. These areas were chosen as a base-set of common areas all aspiring—and established—leaders should focus on to begin trans-formational leadership change.The intent of this paper is to begin the following three things:* Bring awareness and understanding to one’s personal leadership strategy within the four areas cov-ered;* Provide suggestions how to begin implementing change in one’s leadership strategy in order to be-come a more effectual leader; and,* Act as a resource for identifying one’s own strength and weaknesses in order to grow as a leader
The Achievement Gap: Federal, State, Provincial and Nonprofit Websites That Publish Research Reports About the Achievement Gap in PNLA States and Provinces
Get PDFThese resources are gathered together with the criteria that they had published robust and recent research reports about the causes or impact of the achievement gap
Building Entrepreneurial Competencies in Library Staff: Getting Started
Get PDFLibrary staff in public and academic libraries face challenges to build library staff competencies to serve a growing population of entrepreneurs. Most public libraries provide workforce development assistance, and of those, 48% provide entrepreneurial services to these communities (American Library Association, n.d.). What can we learn from those libraries in order to build our capacity to grow entrepreneurs? When library staff teach individuals about new technologies in our makerspaces, these community members invent new tools, or objects. How do we extend their expertise? Library staff can create pipelines to fabrication re-sources, patent centers, and small business resources in order to assist our communities to grow and start their own businesses. Meeting these growing needs, finding and providing information services in this vein is a part of the traditional library model. How can libraries best serve entrepreneurial-minded individ-uals? How can libraries boost their capacity to meet this need? What kinds of training do we need to ad-dress this issue
The Mentor
Get PDFEditor’s note: The Mentor column is a place for advice, storytelling, introspection, and professional growth
