1. Two Years after the Consolidation of the Dentistry Library
Reflections and Perspectives from the Dental Community
Mark MacEachern; Whitney Field; Carol Shannon
Taubman Health Sciences Library
University of Michigan
markmac@umich.edu
© Regents of the University of Michigan 2010

2. Outline
• Context
• Methods
• Results
• Overall findings
• Future plans
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3. Context
• In-building library
• 1970s
• Supportive community
• Closed June 08
• Collection moved to THL
• Serves:
• dentistry
• medicine
• pharmacy
• nursing
• public health
• etc.
• Transition team

4. Methods
• Surveyed community early (5 qn)
• Ran similar survey 2 yrs later (6 qn)
• Online, emailed to schoolwide list
• SurveyMonkey and Qualtrics
Survey 1 Survey 2
Faculty 49 (31%) 39 (52%)
Staff 31 (19%) 21 (28%)
Student 80 (50%) 15 (20%)
Total 160 75

5. Methods
• Surveyed community early (5 qn)
• Ran similar survey 2 yrs later (6 qn)
• Online, emailed to schoolwide list
• SurveyMonkey and Qualtrics
Survey 1 Survey 2
Faculty 49 (31%) 39 (52%)
Staff 31 (19%) 21 (28%)
Student 80 (50%) 15 (20%)
Total 160 75

6. Survey 1
most frequently used DL services
90
68
# of responses
45
23
0
scanners study space librarian print coll
services (exc ejournals)

7. Survey 1
most frequently used DL services
90
68
# of responses
45
stayed in promote other
office hours doc delivery
23 SOD spaces
0
scanners study space librarian print coll
services (exc ejournals)

8. Survey 2
how often do you visit?
30
23
# of responses
15
8
0
never rarely (1-4) sometimes (5-9) frequently (10+)
visits

9. reference
ebooks
would use more
libguides
consults
Survey 2
office hours
reserves
print collection
have used
online tutorials
study space
7fast
40
30
20
10
0

10. Survey 2
have used would use more
- print used heavily (so is delivery)
40 - ppl would like to use online tutorials
- ebooks
- increase accessibility? (OH)
30 - libguides are used more heavily than
this suggests (>students)
20
10
0
7fast
study space
online tutorials
print collection
reserves
office hours
consults
libguides
ebooks
reference

11. Comments
Survey 1 Survey 2
study space study space
inconvenient inconvenient
comps/scanners better comps
maintain collection grow collection
more ejournals more ejournals/ebooks
-librarian +librarian (+OH/wshp)
(16) exp displeasure little displeasure (4)
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12. Overall Findings
• Study space (both)
– how would study space in SoD affect their perceptions and use of
the library?
• Too far / Too inconvenient
– if THL was more convenient, how would they use it? Or, would
they use it?
• More ppl use print materials than expected
– do they like the print as much as they say?
• Less displeasure 2nd time around
– why? time, +services (OH), +resources (DOSS), +curriculum,
+etc

13. Future Plans
• Better service promotion:
– Promote OH (on website?)
– libguides
– online tutorials
– document delivery
• More ebooks / ejournals
• Update website
• Greater involvement in curriculum

14. questions?
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