Presentation by Angie Brunk and Cynthia Kane, City University of New York Library Assessment Conference, June 6, 2014

1. You’re on Candid Camera: Using Time
Lapse Photography to Assess the Library
Learning Commons
Angie Brunk, Assistant Professor and Reference Librarian, Emporia State
University Libraries and Archives
abrunk@emporia.edu
Cynthia Kane, Professor and Director of Assessment, Emporia State University
Libraries and Archives
ckane1@emporia.edu

2. Emporia State University:
Part of Kansas Board of Regents system
 Fall 2013: 3873 undergraduate students; 2160 graduate students
(includes full-time and part-time students)
 Four schools/colleges:Liberal Arts and Sciences; School of
Business (AACSB accreditation); School of Library and
Information Management (ALA accreditation); Teachers College
(NCATE accreditation)
 Carnegie Basic Classification: Master’s L: Master’s Colleges and
Universities (larger program)
 And…we are preparing for our Higher Learning Commission site
visit (March 23-25, 2015)!
How did we get here? Some background
about ESU and the Libraries and Archives

3. ESU Libraries and Archives (ULA)
 William Allen White Library (focus of this study) and the University Archives
 8 full-time ULA librarians with University faculty status and rank
 Recently switched to WorldCat WMS for online catalog, acquisitions,
circulation, and technical services
 Focus in the last academic year upon student learning outcomes for decisions
about physical remodeling of the library building, acquisition of resources,
and changing services (for example, combining Reference and Circulation into
Public Services)
How did we get here? Some background
about ESU and the Libraries and Archives

4. Director of Assessment: Relatively new position as of Spring 2014 to
concentrate specifically upon all aspects of ULA services, resources, and
teaching in regard to outcomes.
Assessment projects include:
 iSkills (2012/13 academic year) and Project SAILS (2013/14 academic
year): Used in our UL100, Information Literacy and Technology credit
course for standardized information literacy assessment
 LibQUAL+: Administered in Fall 2010 and Spring 2013 to gauge
Minimum, Desired, and Perceived satisfaction with Library as Place,
Information Control, and Affect of Service
Assessment and William Allen White
Library

5.  LibQUAL+ in 2010 and 2013: Undergraduate students increasingly
were using the library building as a physical space and place for group
and individual study.
 Desire expressed in comments for a 24/7 space equipped with
computers and printers (not so much for traditional library services
such as reference and circulation)
 Along with statements from ESU Associated Student Government for a
“commons” space in the library, an extensive remodeling in 2010 and
2011 of the Memorial Union proved that enhancements of physical
spaces were attractive to students!
 So, in summer 2012 WAW Library began…
One outcome from LibQUAL+…and how to
assess success?

6. (insert photo)
A Learning Commons!

7. Success, but how to measure it?