Hours: 7.5 Total Hours: 150 I started my day finishing up my final presentation. Then I worked on some more Collection Development. I had lunch with Jane and Amy as a fine farewell. After lunch, I worked on collection development some more until it was time for my presentation. In my Final Presentation, I shared my DC Use Survey and… More →
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Day 19 at Otterbein
Hours: 7.5 Total Hours: 142.5 Started my day with Jane, getting ready for my final week. The DC Use survey was sent out again, and we had a lot of new responses to go through. I started there, updating my report with the rest of the responses. I sent it out to Jane, and she gave me some feedback. I… More →
Day 18 at Otterbein
Hours: 7.5 Total Hours: 135 I met with Jane to start my Tuesday, we went over yet more troubles with the Physics papers that I had uploaded. This week, I need to fix dates and CCLs – add dates to the conference citations, expand publication dates to months and days if I can, and make sure the CCL is accurate.… More →
Day 17 at Otterbein
Hours: 7.5 Total Hours: 127.5 This week started off with Faculty/Staff usability test number 3 and ended with number 4. In between, I added some hand-written Pre-Surveys into SurveyMonkey, and scheduled student test number 5. I updated my survey reports for the Pre-Surveys, and my DC Use survey had doubled in participants, so I updated that, too. I also updated… More →
Day 16 at Otterbein
Hours: 8 Total Hours: 120 I started out my day checking on the surveys, no new responses. So, I printed out the usability script, having read it off the computer screen yesterday. I also printed out several copies of the citation for the Faculty test, so I could hand it to them, instead of just showing them the script. Then I… More →
Day 15 at Otterbein
Hours: 7 Total Hours: 112 I started out week eight updating the survey reports. I put in all the current data for both the Usability Pre-Survey and the DC Use Survey. I pulled all the text-response questions from the Use Survey, too. I made slides for those as well. Then I made reports to the different Library Liaisons for all… More →
Day 14 at Otterbein
Hours: 6.5 Total Hours:105 I got in early on Friday, to get a bit of work done before my interview, so Jane was not in yet. I wrote up my own To Do list. Finish up the collection development report, check on the usability study rsvps, work on the script. There was one more RSVP, a student, so I sent… More →
Day 13 at Otterbein
Hours: 8.5 Total Hours: 98.5 Monday was a holiday, and the library was closed, so this week began on Tuesday morning. I checked in with Jane, and she let me know she had sent out the Usability Pre-Survey. We had 6 volunteers already, all faculty/staff, so she was going to send the survey out to the students again on Wednesday… More →
Day 12 at Otterbein
Hours: 7.5 Total Hours: 90 Jane was already in a meeting when I arrived today, so I gathered all my assignments together from my email To Do box, and got to work. There were some new suggestions for the Website Usability Pre-Survey, so I started on that. I updated the intro, changed a few free-answer questions to multiple choice, and… More →
Day 11 at Otterbein
Hours: 7.5 Total Hours: 82.5 Started the day, as usual, with a conversation about all the things on our plate this week. Some DC Survey edits, the Institutional Research Board, an email to biology faculty, and some metadata editing. I started with the changes to the DC Use Survey, and then began working on filling out the IRB submission form,… More →