November 13, 2019 Meeting of Library Assessment Committee

Jen-chien Yu, Kirsten Feist, Peg Burnette, Megean Osuchowski, Geoffrey Ross, Erin Kerby, Rebecca Smith, Joshua Lynch, Yali Feng, Ruthann Miller, Shuyong Jiang, John Laskowski, Taylor Anderson

1. Welcome new committee members. Introduction (5 min.)

2. Updates. Addition to the agenda (15 min.)

• Fall 2019 Sweeps Week update (Spring 2020: March 2-8 (7th week))
• 2020 Library Assessment Conference (October 26–28, Westin O’Hare in Rosemont, Illinois). Call for proposals coming soon (December 4, 2019 to February 28, 2020).
• Assessment brownbag presentation
• Student Success initiative and lunches
• CARLI Counts and CARLI Annual Meeting Nov. 15

2. 2019-2020 projects (20 min.)

• https://uofi.box.com/s/c8fz73n5py6xjv2l4776hin52ctp90gi

3. Library Assessment (general info) page brainstorming (John, 30 min.)

• https://www.library.illinois.edu/geninfo/services/assessment/ (need to be updated)
• Examples
  • U of I About [https://illinois.edu/about/index.html]
  • Division of Management of Information (DMI) [https://dmi.illinois.edu/]
  • Graduate College dashboard [https://grad.illinois.edu/dashboard]

5. Member Updates (Round-robin)

Jen-chien Yu, Kirsten Feist, Peg Burnette, Megean Osuchowski, Geoffrey Ross, Erin Kerby, Joshua Lynch, Yali Feng, Ruthann Miller, Shuyong Jiang, John Laskowski, Taylor Anderson

In attendance

Jen-chien Yu, Kirsten Feist, Megean Osuchowski, Geoffrey Ross, Yali Feng, Ruthann Miller, Shuyong Jiang, John Laskowski, Taylor Anderson, Joshua Lynch, Peg Burnette, Erin Kerby

Absent members

Rebecca Smith (On leave)

Minutes

1. Welcome new committee members. Introduction

Explanation of where on the website the agenda is kept on website- https://www.library.illinois.edu/staff/committee/library-assessment-committee/

Welcome new members- Shuyong Jiang, Ruthann Miller, Yali Feng

2. Updates. Addition to the agenda

• Fall 2019 Sweeps Week update (Spring 2020: March 2-8 (7th week))
  • Discussion of changing the week for Spring. Sweeps week is normally the 8^th or 9^th week, but the 7^th makes more sense this week.
  • Introduction of the draft comparison of sweeps this year vs. sweeps last year.
• 2020 Library Assessment Conference (October 26–28, Westin O’Hare in Rosemont, Illinois). Call for proposals coming soon (December 4, 2019 to February 28, 2020).
  • Offer of help with proposals, reminder to plan for proposal, reminder of date.
• Assessment brownbag presentation
  • Focus on student success and learning. Open to everyone on campus
• Student Success initiative and lunches
  • Renewed energy for Student Success after the new Strategic Plan for transformative learning.
  • Lunches around key factors in student success (mental health, advising, diversity, ect.)
  • Reminder that there is one tomorrow (11/14) at ACES at 11:45.
  • Encouragement to engage in other colleges from all around campus to refocus on assessment being about students, even though we may not directly see students in our division.
• CARLI Counts and CARLI Annual Meeting Nov. 15
  • Invitation to come to the meeting at the iHotel
  • Both Jen and Josh will have posters at the annual meeting.

2. 2019-2020 projects (20 min.)

• https://uofi.box.com/s/c8fz73n5py6xjv2l4776hin52ctp90gi
  • Discussion of the possibility of the assessment committee working with the assessment of staff needs in the new building project, working with the programming committee. Discussion of asking Kiersten of what would be helpful.
  • Assess the difference in service between the first floor reference desk and the second floor circulation desk. Need to talk to Sarah Holder.

3. Library Assessment (general info) page brainstorming (John, 30 min.)

• https://www.library.illinois.edu/geninfo/services/assessment/ (need to be updated)
• Examples
  • U of I About [https://illinois.edu/about/index.html]
  • Division of Management of Information (DMI) [https://dmi.illinois.edu/]
  • Graduate College dashboard [https://grad.illinois.edu/dashboard]
• What is the public facing page for?
  • Reaches out to other libraries in an example because we are a leader in library science.
  • For donors and students to see how the library is functioning.
  • For prospective employers to see what the library values.
• What does library assessment mean for public facing mean to the public?
• What is the difference between the staff page and the public facing page?
• Should the public facing page focus more on stats and graphics? Can it be pretty?
  • Can we have some operational transparency numbers on the website?
  • Dashboard of “Your dollars at work”?
  • Library by the numbers?
  • Graphs and datapoints instead of just plain links
  • Definition of what library assessment is and how it relates to student success.
  • Student Success Stories?
  • Public facing more PR, internal more links?