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- 1. Report 3/20: Angela Wacker, Assessment & User Experience Librarian
- 2. OUTREACH ACTIVITIES BY YEAR 535 698 157 186 Fall Spring Winter Summer LIBRARIANS WITH HIGHEST NUMBER OF OUTREACHOUTREACH ACTIVITIES BY SEMESTER 2 121 839 657 2019 2018 2017 284 231 228 165 L1 L2 L3 L4
- 3. 3 Invitations generally occur in the liaison area’s when librarians affiliated with departments are asked to attend a special event. 18%PERSONAL INVITATION Nearly all activities attended are not required with the exception of graduation and other special ceremonies. 90%VOLUNTARILY PARTICIPATED OUTREACH PARTICIPATION STATUS 0 100 200 300 400 500 600 Campus Event Attendance Service to Elon Professional Development Curriculum Related Library Hosted Event External Activities BY INVITATION Not by invite Invited 0 100 200 300 400 500 600 Campus Event Attendance Service to Elon Professional Development Curriculum Related Library Hosted Event External Activities BY REQUIREMENT Voluntary Required
- 4. 4 SERVICE TO ELONCAMPUS EVENTS PROF. DEVELOPMENT Service can include many activities such as: advising, attending ceremonies, serving on committees, meetings and social events 27% Activities on campus are the top outreach activities. Some events are regular occurrences like college coffee, while others are one time events like a concert. 35% Both the participation in and the leading of training, workshops, conference presentations and lectures are a part of the third largest group of activities. 14% TOP OUTREACH CATEGORIES
- 5. 5 The largest category of events captured in this period included campus events. Some were regular events such as college coffee or numen lumen while others were one time events such as a presentation, concert or film. CAMPUS EVENTS 10 18 20 24 30 55 62 100 ATHLETIC COLLEGE COFFEE SOCIAL FAC/STAFF EXERCISE NUMEN LUMEN THEATRE/CONCERT PRESENTATION OTHER EVENT
- 6. 25% Several different types of service was captured by librarians such as: event attendance, meetings, volunteering in the community, consultations and meetings about donations. The largest number of professional development activities include attending trainings. These may include webinars, online courses or campus trainings. 43% 6
- 7. 7 Most curriculum related outreach activities listed during this time period involved instruction. Leading workshops or orientations and giving presentations to liaison departments were included in this category. CURRICULUM RELATED Instruction 79% Collaboration 12% Research Support 5% Social 4%
- 8. 25% External activities that were captured included event attendance, meetings, consultations, volunteer events and acquiring archival donations. Scheduled library events such as movie night, game night, library tables and mini-golf make up the largest area of documented activities hosted by the library. 43% 8
- 9. THOUGHT S & FUTURE TRACKING • While attempting to analyze two years worth of outreach activities the library captured, it became clear while we had been able to capture a large amount of data, this method was not sustainable or entirely accurate. • Many delayed entering their activities until the end of the term, and everyone tracked things differently. This meant that I had to redistribute 80% of activities into different categories. • In discussions with staff, it is clear everyone thought of these categories differently. An external event to one might be service to another. A campus activity to one might be related to curriculum (or more accurately liaison work) for another. • This helped me clarify that there are activities as well as intentions behind each activity that seems to be important in creating the story of library outreach. • Starting in 2/20, we began tracking all activities utilizing a single form. This allows us to better track activities based on service, instruction, liaison work, and library promotion.