Diversity Resident Alia Gant’s spring rotation with Library Assessment

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