Hours: 7.5 Total Hours: 67.5
Started my day with the usual meeting with Jane about what was on the docket for the week. She had gotten some feedback from other library staff about our surveys and passed that on. We needed to do slightly different questions for Staff and Admin than for Faculty for the IR Survey. She also invited me to a meeting in the afternoon about a new Information Literacy Framework.
I started out with the Digital Commons Survey. I made some minor spelling corrections and added an option to one of the questions. Then I made a new set of use questions for the Administration and Staff that would be answering, and added page and question logic to make it flow properly based on their designation.
Then I moved on to the Website Usability Pre-Survey. I added introduction text, explaining what we were doing. And I sent an email to Tiffany, asking for clarification on a section she wanted added. Then I created the survey on SurveyMonkey for further review.
Next, I had to choose our participants for the pre-survey, as we did not want to blast the whole campus. Working with Jane, I sorted her lists of students, faculty and staff/admin and counted the number in each group. Then I wrote an excel function to choose random numbers within these counts. I chose 30 undergrads, 10 grad students, 20 faculty and 20 staff/admin. Then I took these random numbers, and extracted the email addresses of those chosen, and formatted them into email-ready lists, separated by student/staff, and shared these lists with Jane.
After lunch, in preparation for the Information Literacy meeting, I watched an introductory video on the new Framework that Jane had sent me. Next, I did some more work on our DC Access reports. There are several departments that have not submitted any faculty work, so I added a small table of these departments. Then, I created a spreadsheet to record metadata for the physics articles Jane has asked me to upload to the DC @ Otterbein.
It was then time for the Framework presentation. The basic idea of the Framework is that finding information, thanks to the internet, is no longer the problem. The idea is how to get students to understand the information creation process, and how they are an integral part of it. The focus is on process cognition instead of skill acquisition. The frames include: Authority is constructed and contextual, Information creation as process, Information has value, Research as inquiry, Scholarship as conversation, and Searching as strategic exploration.
I finished up my day by integrating some bepress institutional comparisons Jane had used in a recent DC @Otterbein presentation into our Overall DC Access Stats report.