Diversity Resident Alia Gant is spending her spring rotation in the Library Assessment Department. During her time with Assessment, Alia will be leading a study, supporting existing initiatives, and working to develop assessment proficiencies.
Alia’s work plan is available to view as a PDF here.
Some highlights of her planned work include:
- Leading a study investigating what we as libraries do to make international students feel welcome and comfortable, what can be done to further enrich those feelings
- Shadowing UX Librarian Zoe Chao at the UX Café in preparation for hosting the café for a week conducting a small UX study of her own
- Integrating assessment & reflective practice into her instructional efforts, particularly around English as a Second Language (ESL)
- Developing a resource on writing good questions for surveys which will be integrated into a workshop on survey design later this spring
- Developing peer benchmarks of the Association of Research Libraries (ARL) and other data sets
- As a member of the Library Assessment and Metrics Council (LAMC), will be participating in a data inventory investigating the data that is collected consistently across the libraries
– submitted by Steve Borrelli, Library Assessment