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 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 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 →