Hours: 1.5 Total Hours: 75 At home, I have Adobe Acrobat X Pro, so I was able to finish editing the pdfs and get them uploaded to the Digital Commons. Now, Jane just has to check them over and approve them, and the Physics department will have a much bigger set of faculty scholarship in the DC @ Otterbein.
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Day 10 at Otterbein
Hours: 6 Total Hours: 73.5 I started my day by adding a new question to the Usability Pre-Survey about the various services the Library offers, with information Tiffany replied with. I then started work on the Physics papers’ metadata, gathering title, author, abstract, publisher, and citation information. Jane forwarded more feedback on the Surveys, so I edited the SurveyMonkey surveys… More →
Day 9 at Otterbein
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… More →
Day 8 at Otterbein
Hours: 7.5 Total Hours: 60 Jane was back today, so I started my day going over all the documents I had sent her the evening before. She asked for more charts, more marketing phrases, and a clearer message to the Maths department about how well they were doing. She also showed me the new way the LibGuides are designed. Back… More →
Day 7 at Otterbein
Hours: 7.5 Total Hours: 52.5 Today, Jane was out of the office, so I had a list of things to do. I started with a Usability Pre-Survey, to identify trouble areas of the Library Website. Asking basic things, like do you use the website, do you have trouble with any part of the website, is the website easy to use,… More →
Day 6 at Otterbein
Hours: 7 Total Hours: 45 I started my day by creating a Google Doc for Kellen of the metadata used for books in the Digital Commons, and sent it to him to see if they would work for the Diaries. I then summarized my usability notes in another Google Doc. Jane emailed me, then, asking if I could check copyright… More →
Day 5 at Otterbein
Hours: 8 Total Hours: 38 Today started out with my usual meeting with Jane to discuss the day. She asked me to look into a Website Usability lit review, and discussed some of the things she knew were missing from the site – User feedback, a friends page, a virtual tour, and a research guide. We would also be meeting… More →
Ohio Digital Interest Group Meeting
Hours: 4 Otterbein Total Hours: 30 CML Total Hours: 19 The main presentation for the meeting was from The Ohio State University Library. The presentation was called Harnessing the Lifecycle. It was about how the OSUL created a Digital Preservation Policy Framework, their Strategic Digital Vision, a Digital Content Workflow, and a Digital Presentation Task Force. I liked the organizational… More →
Day 4 at Otterbein
Hours: 7.5 Total Hours: 26.5 Today, I worked on a weeding project and went to the Librarians Meeting. The weeding project was for books in the Sociology section with zero circulation. I went to the shelves, to check the books on the list physically. I was looking for bookplates for special collections, as well as copies that were the last… More →
Day 3 at Otterbein
Hours: 4 Total Hours: 19 Labor day, so shorter hours at the library today. Three tasks on my plate. Started with reviewing corrections to the Digital Commons survey. Added a few more options, a few more questions, and proofread the new introduction. Once the committee meets, the survey will be ready to go. I also spent some time reviewing the… More →