Assess and Connect Library Assessment Forum

Thursday, March 21, 2024, 1pm – 3 pm

Zoom

Welcome and Introductions

Sanga Sung, Government Information Librarian

1:00 pm – 1:45 pm: Lightning Talks

Kyungwon Koh, Associate Professor at the iSchool and Director of the Champaign-Urbana Community Fab Lab – Evaluating the Value and Impact of a Library Makerspace

Jen-chien Yu, Director Library Assessment – Working with LibInsight Data

Mary Ton, Digital Humanities Librarian – Understanding Patterns in Your Workshop Registration Data

1:45 pm – 1:55 pm: But First…Best Practices & Tips for working with data

Belinda Bolivar, Assessment Specialist

  • Backing up your data
  • CSV vs XLSX
  • Sharing spreadsheets

1:55 pm – 2:00 pm: Break

2:00 pm – 2:50 pm: The Magic of Spreadsheets: Getting information out of your data

Sandi Caldrone – Formulas and Calculated Fields (COUNT and COUNTA)

Gabriel Foster – Conditional Formatting

Belinda Bolivar – Pivot Tables and Pivot Charts

2:50 pm – 3:00 pm: Wrap-up

Sanga Sung – LAC grants, feedback, and thanks

To access forum resources (presenter slides and the Magic of Spreadsheet instructions) please go to this link: https://go.illinois.edu/AssessandConnect2024

Past Assess and Connect Library Assessment Forums

Tuesday, March 21, 2023
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Tuesday, March 21, 2023, 10 am – 12 pm

Main Library, Room 106 & Zoom

10:00 am – 10:05 am: Opening Remarks

David Ward, Director, Library Teaching and Learning

10:05 am – 10:50 am: “Immeasurable and Invisible” Panel Discussion

Panelists: Janelle Sander, Kyle Rimkus, & Sarah C. Williams. Moderated by Mary Ton & John Laskowski (Zoom).

10:50 am – 11:00 am: Break

11:00 am – 12:00 pm: “Tell me more …” Presentations

  1. Belinda Bolivar & Jen-chien Yu, Library Statistics and LibInsight
  2. John Laskowski, Space Assessment
  3. Virginia Haverstic & Belinda Bolivar, Data Visualization: Best Practices and Accessibility
Thursday, March 12, 2020
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Thursday, March 12, 2020, 11 am 12 pm

Main Library, Room 106

11:00 am – 11:30 pm: Illinois Distributed Museum User Study

Kristen Wilson, Distributed Museum Coordinator

11:30 am -12:00 pm: Research Librarian Qualitative Research Tools and Strategies for Library Assessment

Jessica Hagman, Assistant Professor and Social Sciences

Thursday, March 15, 2018
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Thursday, March 15, 2018, 10 am – 12 pm

Main Library, Room 106

10:00 am – 10:15 am: Welcome and Introduction to Assessment at the Library

Jen-chien Yu, Coordinator for Library Assessment

10:15 am – 10:45 am: Lightning Talks Presented by Recipients of Library Assessment Committee Grant Program

  1. Karen Hoganboom & Beth Sheehan, Data Purchase Program Assessment (funded in April 2015)
  2. Megean Osuchowski, Robert Slater, & Daniel Mills, Library Website Usability Pilot Project (funded in October 2017)

10:45 am – 11:00 am: Google Analytics in WordPress

John Laskowski, User Experience and Web Strategy Coordinator

11:00 am – 11:10 am: Break with Light Refreshments

11:10 am – 11:40 am: Assessment Roundtable Discussions

11:40 am – 11:50 am: Closing Remarks

Cherié Weible, Interim Associate Librarian for User Services

11:50 am – 12:00 pm: Next Steps for Assessment Projects

Jen-chien Yu, Coordinator of Library Assessment

For More Information:

LAC Grant Program
Library Assessment Committee