means I’m responsible for the library’s negotiation frameworks, reinvestment priorities, strategies around the collection and services, developing policy, and assessment projects.
About 23,000 students • “Teacher-scholar” model: many faculty researching praxis, assessment, and using a variety of pedagogies. • ILS from Sierra → FOLIO in June 2021.
alumni pursue graduate degrees. • Library has a relatively flat organizational structure where information sharing is used to understand strategy and decisions.
“Something is happening with the data.” • “Faculty must not have participated in the process” vs “Sometimes data can be given nuance through individual experience.” • “Going after the most expensive subscriptions is the best way to absorb the cut” vs “Resources are complex and often not as straightforward as on or off.”
in the disciplinary areas your new colleague is covering. • “Generalist” and intro guides get very little use in this subject area. • Class-specific guides get the highest use. • COUNTER investigations are high, but requests are low.
results and headlines to stay current. Uneven levels of collaboration between teaching faculty and library. First and second year students may use other resources.
Covid shutdowns in 2020. • Many providers migrated from COUNTER 4 to COUNTER 5 during this time as well. • Remote teaching, learning, and working may influence statistics depending on local configurations.
not be justification to engage in limitless surveillance. • From an ethical standpoint, I only want to know the minimum necessary in order to improve services and make collections decisions.