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 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 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 →