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Curriculum review and mapping, student and faculty advisory boards
Curriculum review in which there is an assessment of each department’s student learning outcomes and syllabi.
Focus groups, Town Halls on specific issues
Focus groups, accreditation studies, feedback/comment board
Gen Ed requirements, major requirements, course syllabi
Grant awards, program reviews, and curriculum and course changes
It has been several years since we’ve done any formal assessment. Most of it is word-of-mouth.
Liaisons wrote and continue to update environmental scans of their subject areas. These scans are shared within the
library as liaisons share trends they discover during this process. Liaisons share their scan with their subject areas to
open dialogue and to verify the results of their update.
LibQUAL+®
Libraries are required to supply a report for each new programs proposal. Some other PCC materials are also read by
liaisons as they become available.
Library instruction and consultation statistics
Office of Sponsored Programs highlights grant documentation, course offerings, citation and publishing trends,
seminar papers.
Participation in university-wide activities, service on university committees, attendance at outside events. We also
received information from the college of arts &sciences on curriculum changes.
Review of curricular materials, ethnographic research, focus groups, usability testing
Review of faculty vitae and documented research interests.
Reviewing of departmental and major student learning outcomes, course syllabi
Surveys are used infrequently and selectively for high priority issues. Asking participants questions before and after
instructional sessions is fairly common. Other documentation includes survey results from those the schools and
programs conduct, as well as website reviews, research awards announcements, and the meetings with deans and key
administrators mentioned earlier.
Syllabi and assignments provided for instruction sessions, research consultations, and reference work.
University strategic plan
University strategic plan, presentations and emails from the provost
We also look at number of classes, learning objects requested, and the amount of students who make use of
those things.
We have recently used focus groups for our “Future of the Libraries” report. Focus groups are used irregularly, typically
when we have a conjunction of several issues we can present and request input about.
We track how many classes and consultations occur, and how many students and faculty are served by our services.
Working on joint scholarship or projects.
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