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 →
Tag: digital commons
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 10 Part 2 at Otterbein
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.
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 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 →
Day 2 at Otterbein
Hours: 7.5 Total Hours: 15 I started the day, and spent many blocks of time throughout the day working on the DC Survey questions. I found a few more articles about Institutional Repository use and surveys, and borrowed a few question topics from them. I added a few demographic questions based on a suggestion from Tiffany, and then moved them… More →
Day 1 at Otterbein
Hours: 7.5 Total Hours: 7.5 I started out getting familiar with Digital Commons @ Otterbein. I browsed through all the collections, noting how much content was coming from each department, and what years content had been created in. The majority of content was from the previous year, the year in which the DC had started running. But some of the… More →