Staff Development

Sharing

Kate Ross & Nancy Greco

The World Premiere

http://www.hollywoodlibrarian.com/production.html

Empowering Data: Persuasion Through

PresentationWhat’s the real lesson behind the

Garden of Eden?

…Bad Data!!~Librarian and statistician Robert Molyneux (Dr. Data) of

SIRSI/Dynix

Where are we now? - Mostly annual data - Mostly badly documented - For a few large libraries - What is documented still will usually require

programming skill - Little is in the public domainWhat is coming for certain—thank you, National

Commission on Libraries and Information Science - Academic Library Statistics Longitudinal File

And derivative data products - What I hope is coming

WBOW

Empowering Data: Persuasion Through Presentation

Presenting Data and Results

• Make sure data/results are:– Timely– Understandable– Usable

• Identify important findings/key results– What’s important to know– What’s actionable

• Present key/important results to:– Library administration/institutional administration– Library staff– Other libraries/interested parties/stakeholders

Time for a New Business Model?

Not just better libraries . . . Not better customers . . . but

Demonstrate the Value the Library Provides the University Community

“Documenting the libraries contributions to quality teaching, student outcomes, and research productivity will become critical.”

(Yvonna Lincoln 2006)

It’s Showtime for Instruction Librarians:

The Making of Short Films for Marketing

and Instruction

http://books.valdosta.edu/media/library_films.htm

Eye to I: Visual Literacy Meets Information

Literacy

Using Language to Access the Visual

I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn’t

say any other way

…things I had no words for.—Georgia O’Keefe

AD001441/Ansel Adams Publishing Rights Trust/Corbis

BE023533/Bettmann/Corbis

AsianAdult womanChopsticksFood DeliciousSweet (flavor)GourmetDessert

42-17418670/Photomorgana/Corbis

Ignite Your Library’s PublicRelations and Outreach Using Hot Technologies

• Brand the library as a technology leader– What do patrons think about the library – a fact– If you don’t like the results, need to work from there to

change their perception• 3 reasons why I love the library

Is the LearningCommons Enough?

Asking the Better QuestionsSpeakers:• Scott Bennett, Library Consultant and Librarian Emeritus,

Yale University www.libraryspaceplanning.com• Nancy Schmidt, Co-Director, Learning Commons,

University of Guelph Library www.learningcommons.uoguelph.ca

• Stephen Johnson, AIA, Principal, Pfeiffer Partners Architects www.pfeifferpartners.com

• Mark Valenti, President, Sextant Group (technology and AV consultants) www.thesextantgroup.com