Are They Being Served? Reference Services Student Experience Project, UCD Lib...UCD Library
Presentation given by Jenny Collery and Dr Marta Bustillo, College Liaison Librarians at University College Dublin Library, at the CONUL Annual Conference held on May 30-31, 2018 in Galway, Ireland.
Are They Being Served? Reference Services Student Experience Project, UCD Lib...UCD Library
Presentation given by Jenny Collery and Dr Marta Bustillo, College Liaison Librarians at University College Dublin Library, at the CONUL Annual Conference held on May 30-31, 2018 in Galway, Ireland.
Collection Management and GreenGlass at UCD LibraryUCD Library
Presentation given by UCD Library's Collections Support Librarian Catherine Ryan at 'Collection Management: Sharing Experiences' Joint Seminar organised by CONUL Collections and CONUL Training and Development, 24th October, 2018 at the Royal Irish Academy, Dublin.
This presentation was provided by Joyce Chapman and Emily Daly of Duke University, during Session One of the NISO training series "Assessment Practices and Metrics in a 21st Century Pandemic," held on September 18, 2020.
The Establishment and Development of UCD Library's Research Services Unit: Su...UCD Library
Presentation given by Julia Barrett, Head of Research Services, University College Dublin Library, at the 2017 CONUL Annual Conference, Athlone, Ireland May 30-31, 2017.
From Bean Counting to Adding Value: Using Statistics to Transform ServicesUCD Library
Presentation given by Diarmuid Stokes, College Liaison Librarian at University College Dublin Library, Dublin, Ireland, at the Great Expectations Conference, Birmingham City University, UK, December 5, 2014.
This presentation was provided by Joan Lippincott of The Coalition for Networked Information (CNI), during Session Eight of the NISO training series "Assessment Practices and Metrics in a 21st Century Pandemic," held on November 6, 2020.
UCD Library and GreenGlass: Defining Needs, Redefining CollectionsUCD Library
Presentation given by Catherine Ryan, Collections Support Librarian, University College Dublin Library, at the CONUL Annual Conference held on May 30-31,2018 in Galway, Ireland.
#Nuntastic: Transcribing Nano Nagle's Letters using Collaborative Transcripti...UCD Library
Presentation given by Audrey Drohan, Senior Library Assistant, Research Services, University College Dublin Library, at the CONUL Annual Conference, May 30-31, 2018, held in Galway, Ireland.
Presentation by Keren Stiles, from the Open University at the Northern Collaboration User Experience (UX) Learning Exchange held at the University of Huddersfield on 17 March 2017
Collection Management and GreenGlass at UCD LibraryUCD Library
Presentation given by UCD Library's Collections Support Librarian Catherine Ryan at 'Collection Management: Sharing Experiences' Joint Seminar organised by CONUL Collections and CONUL Training and Development, 24th October, 2018 at the Royal Irish Academy, Dublin.
This presentation was provided by Joyce Chapman and Emily Daly of Duke University, during Session One of the NISO training series "Assessment Practices and Metrics in a 21st Century Pandemic," held on September 18, 2020.
The Establishment and Development of UCD Library's Research Services Unit: Su...UCD Library
Presentation given by Julia Barrett, Head of Research Services, University College Dublin Library, at the 2017 CONUL Annual Conference, Athlone, Ireland May 30-31, 2017.
From Bean Counting to Adding Value: Using Statistics to Transform ServicesUCD Library
Presentation given by Diarmuid Stokes, College Liaison Librarian at University College Dublin Library, Dublin, Ireland, at the Great Expectations Conference, Birmingham City University, UK, December 5, 2014.
This presentation was provided by Joan Lippincott of The Coalition for Networked Information (CNI), during Session Eight of the NISO training series "Assessment Practices and Metrics in a 21st Century Pandemic," held on November 6, 2020.
UCD Library and GreenGlass: Defining Needs, Redefining CollectionsUCD Library
Presentation given by Catherine Ryan, Collections Support Librarian, University College Dublin Library, at the CONUL Annual Conference held on May 30-31,2018 in Galway, Ireland.
#Nuntastic: Transcribing Nano Nagle's Letters using Collaborative Transcripti...UCD Library
Presentation given by Audrey Drohan, Senior Library Assistant, Research Services, University College Dublin Library, at the CONUL Annual Conference, May 30-31, 2018, held in Galway, Ireland.
Presentation by Keren Stiles, from the Open University at the Northern Collaboration User Experience (UX) Learning Exchange held at the University of Huddersfield on 17 March 2017
Presentation by Jackie Oliver and Julie Archibald at the Northern Collaboration User Experience (UX) Learning Exchange held at the University of Huddersfield on 17 March 2017
What is UX and how can it help your organisation?Ned Potter
An overview of User Experience techniques. No longer just web usability testing, there's a new much more human movement in UX. This presentation outlines the key components, with examples: ethnography, and human-centred design.
UX at York: starting small and scaling up (#nclxux)Ned Potter
A timeline of our ethnography and design work at the University of York, encompassing four UX (User Experience) Projects. Includes the changes we've made to services and space as a result of the fieldwork we've undertaken, and our strategy for dissemination.
UX, ethnography and possibilities: for Libraries, Museums and ArchivesNed Potter
These slides are adapted from a talk I gave at the Welsh Government's Marketing Awards for the LAM sector, in 2017.
It offers a primer on UX - User Experience - and how ethnography and design might be used in the library, archive and museum worlds to better understand our users. All good marketing starts with audience insight.
The presentation covers the following:
1) An introduction to UX
2) Ethnography, with definitions and examples of 7 ethnographic techniques
3) User-centred design and Design Thinking
4) Examples of UX-led changes made at institutions in the UK and Scandinavia
5) Next Steps - if you'd like to try out UX at your own organisation
User Experience Service showcase lightning talks - December 2018Neil Allison
The University of Edinburgh User Experience Service ran a showcase of recent projects on 5 December 2018. The session began with these lightning talks.
Digging into assessment data: Tips, tricks, and tools of the trade.Lynn Connaway
Hofschire, L., & Connaway, L. S. (2018). Digging into assessment data: Tips, tricks, and tools of the trade. Part 2 in 3-part webinar series, Evaluating and sharing your library's impact, presented by OCLC Research WebJunction, August 14, 2018.
Presented by Chris Bulock and Lynn Fields.
Discovery is a key component of a library's services, and user expectations are high. Even if a web-scale discovery system isn't in the cards, there is plenty a library can do to improve discovery for their users. Librarians at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville have been engaged in an ongoing discovery improvement project encompassing the website, catalog, database lists and more, all based on extensive user feedback. The presenters will share successful strategies for evaluating and improving discovery, no expensive software or programming skills necessary.
Discovery on a budget: Improved searching without a Web-scale discovery productNASIG
Discovery is a key component of a library's services, and user expectations are high. Even if a web-scale discovery system isn't in the cards, there is plenty a library can do to improve discovery for their users. Librarians at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville have been engaged in an ongoing discovery improvement project encompassing the website, catalog, database lists and more, all based on extensive user feedback. The presenters will share successful strategies for evaluating and improving discovery, no expensive software or programming skills necessary.
Chris Bulock and Lynette Fields, Southern Illinois University Edwardsville
What Students Want: Redesigning Research Guides Based on Student NeedsAmy Gratz Barker
Presented at LibTech Conference, March 15, 2018. Creating and maintaining research guides that students use and find helpful is an ongoing challenge. On deciding that our subject guides were due for a significant update, librarians at Kennesaw State University realized we needed to learn what our students wanted from these resources. We conducted a study focused on learning what information students expect to find on research guides, as well as how they would organize it. During this presentation I will share the study results and how that information was used to design a new subject guide template in LibGuides CMS. Additionally, I will explain beta-testing the new template prior to updating all subject guides for the fall 2018 semester. Attendees will take away recommendations for transferable design characteristics for your own guides, card sorting, and usability testing methodologies you can use to learn what your own community is looking for.
How user research shaped the thinking towards developing our institutions cen...Brendan Owers
How user research shaped the thinking towards developing our institutions central web portal, presented at ALT-C 2019
https://altc.alt.ac.uk/2019/sessions/a-013/
OBJECTIVES:
To understand the importance of publication and its challenges.
To increase the visibility and accessibility of published papers.
To increase the chance of getting publications cited.
To disseminate the publication by using “Research Tools” effectively.
To increase the chance of research collaboration.
Enhancing Librarians’ Research Skills: A Professional Development ProgramIRDL
Institute of Research Design for Librarianship (IRDL), is a three-year project funded by the Institute of Museum and Library Services in the United States, which seeks to provide professional development opportunities and a support system for academic librarians who want to improve their research skills and increase their research output. We have recently completed the first nine-day Institute for 25 librarians from all over the country, and we would like to share our experience with the international community, hoping to generate more interest and encourage more discussion on practitioner research in LIS.
*** Presented at the Library 2.014 Conference on October 8, 2014. The recording of the session is available at https://sas.elluminate.com/site/external/recording/playback/link/table/dropin?sid=2008350&suid=D.2D7040A7156F9544A91E1BDFA52A25. ***
The University of Hertfordshire (UH) implemented a new
commercial Resource Discovery Service at the same time as it
changed to the Koha Open Source Library Management System. In doing so it moved away from using Google Scholar, as its main platform, at a time when many universities are deciding to only use Google Scholar. Hear about the debate between commercial and non-commercial services and why UH made the decisions it did. After 18 months was it the right decision? What has been the impact on library services and library users?
The digital transformation of research support - Northern Collaboration 2017 ...northerncollaboration
The digital transformation of research support - Alison McNab and Andy Tattersall. University of Huddersfield presentation at the Northern Collaboration 2017 Conference.
Spped Workshopping - Showcasing our Information and Digital Literacy offer through bitesize sessions - Kate Grigsby, Matthew Cooper, Cat Bazela, Rosa Sadler. University of Sheffield presentation at the Northern Collaboration 2017 Conference.
Music to our ears: Using Rebus to structure music resources publicly - Northe...northerncollaboration
Music to our ears: Using Rebus to structure music resources publicly - Natalia Gordon. Leeds Beckett University presentation at the Northern Collaboration 2017 Conference.
Using digital technologies to transform library training for distance student...northerncollaboration
Using digital technologies to transform library training for distance students - Fiona Durham. Open University presentation at the Northern Collaboration 2017 Conference
Using Wakelet to promote reading for pleasure - Northern Collaboration 2017 C...northerncollaboration
Using Wakelet to promote reading for pleasure - by Gopal Dutta, Manchester Metropolitan University and Mike Birchall, Wakelet. Northern Collaboration 2017 Conference
Challenges at UoS - library space as learning spaces as learning styles evolvenortherncollaboration
Rachel Dolan – Campus Library Manager discusses Challenges at University of Sunderland libraries - the role of library spaces as learning styles and access to resources are evolving inc brief tour of Murray Library.
Northern Collaboration Learning Exchange - Learning Spaces Learning spaces in other places - Leanne Young winner of the 2016 Travelling Librarian Award from CILIP shares insights and experiences gained from her travels to creative learning spaces in the USA
Acetabularia Information For Class 9 .docxvaibhavrinwa19
Acetabularia acetabulum is a single-celled green alga that in its vegetative state is morphologically differentiated into a basal rhizoid and an axially elongated stalk, which bears whorls of branching hairs. The single diploid nucleus resides in the rhizoid.
A Strategic Approach: GenAI in EducationPeter Windle
Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies such as Generative AI, Image Generators and Large Language Models have had a dramatic impact on teaching, learning and assessment over the past 18 months. The most immediate threat AI posed was to Academic Integrity with Higher Education Institutes (HEIs) focusing their efforts on combating the use of GenAI in assessment. Guidelines were developed for staff and students, policies put in place too. Innovative educators have forged paths in the use of Generative AI for teaching, learning and assessments leading to pockets of transformation springing up across HEIs, often with little or no top-down guidance, support or direction.
This Gasta posits a strategic approach to integrating AI into HEIs to prepare staff, students and the curriculum for an evolving world and workplace. We will highlight the advantages of working with these technologies beyond the realm of teaching, learning and assessment by considering prompt engineering skills, industry impact, curriculum changes, and the need for staff upskilling. In contrast, not engaging strategically with Generative AI poses risks, including falling behind peers, missed opportunities and failing to ensure our graduates remain employable. The rapid evolution of AI technologies necessitates a proactive and strategic approach if we are to remain relevant.
Macroeconomics- Movie Location
This will be used as part of your Personal Professional Portfolio once graded.
Objective:
Prepare a presentation or a paper using research, basic comparative analysis, data organization and application of economic information. You will make an informed assessment of an economic climate outside of the United States to accomplish an entertainment industry objective.
Embracing GenAI - A Strategic ImperativePeter Windle
Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies such as Generative AI, Image Generators and Large Language Models have had a dramatic impact on teaching, learning and assessment over the past 18 months. The most immediate threat AI posed was to Academic Integrity with Higher Education Institutes (HEIs) focusing their efforts on combating the use of GenAI in assessment. Guidelines were developed for staff and students, policies put in place too. Innovative educators have forged paths in the use of Generative AI for teaching, learning and assessments leading to pockets of transformation springing up across HEIs, often with little or no top-down guidance, support or direction.
This Gasta posits a strategic approach to integrating AI into HEIs to prepare staff, students and the curriculum for an evolving world and workplace. We will highlight the advantages of working with these technologies beyond the realm of teaching, learning and assessment by considering prompt engineering skills, industry impact, curriculum changes, and the need for staff upskilling. In contrast, not engaging strategically with Generative AI poses risks, including falling behind peers, missed opportunities and failing to ensure our graduates remain employable. The rapid evolution of AI technologies necessitates a proactive and strategic approach if we are to remain relevant.
Synthetic Fiber Construction in lab .pptxPavel ( NSTU)
Synthetic fiber production is a fascinating and complex field that blends chemistry, engineering, and environmental science. By understanding these aspects, students can gain a comprehensive view of synthetic fiber production, its impact on society and the environment, and the potential for future innovations. Synthetic fibers play a crucial role in modern society, impacting various aspects of daily life, industry, and the environment. ynthetic fibers are integral to modern life, offering a range of benefits from cost-effectiveness and versatility to innovative applications and performance characteristics. While they pose environmental challenges, ongoing research and development aim to create more sustainable and eco-friendly alternatives. Understanding the importance of synthetic fibers helps in appreciating their role in the economy, industry, and daily life, while also emphasizing the need for sustainable practices and innovation.
2024.06.01 Introducing a competency framework for languag learning materials ...Sandy Millin
http://sandymillin.wordpress.com/iateflwebinar2024
Published classroom materials form the basis of syllabuses, drive teacher professional development, and have a potentially huge influence on learners, teachers and education systems. All teachers also create their own materials, whether a few sentences on a blackboard, a highly-structured fully-realised online course, or anything in between. Despite this, the knowledge and skills needed to create effective language learning materials are rarely part of teacher training, and are mostly learnt by trial and error.
Knowledge and skills frameworks, generally called competency frameworks, for ELT teachers, trainers and managers have existed for a few years now. However, until I created one for my MA dissertation, there wasn’t one drawing together what we need to know and do to be able to effectively produce language learning materials.
This webinar will introduce you to my framework, highlighting the key competencies I identified from my research. It will also show how anybody involved in language teaching (any language, not just English!), teacher training, managing schools or developing language learning materials can benefit from using the framework.
Operation “Blue Star” is the only event in the history of Independent India where the state went into war with its own people. Even after about 40 years it is not clear if it was culmination of states anger over people of the region, a political game of power or start of dictatorial chapter in the democratic setup.
The people of Punjab felt alienated from main stream due to denial of their just demands during a long democratic struggle since independence. As it happen all over the word, it led to militant struggle with great loss of lives of military, police and civilian personnel. Killing of Indira Gandhi and massacre of innocent Sikhs in Delhi and other India cities was also associated with this movement.
Instructions for Submissions thorugh G- Classroom.pptxJheel Barad
This presentation provides a briefing on how to upload submissions and documents in Google Classroom. It was prepared as part of an orientation for new Sainik School in-service teacher trainees. As a training officer, my goal is to ensure that you are comfortable and proficient with this essential tool for managing assignments and fostering student engagement.
Unit 8 - Information and Communication Technology (Paper I).pdfThiyagu K
This slides describes the basic concepts of ICT, basics of Email, Emerging Technology and Digital Initiatives in Education. This presentations aligns with the UGC Paper I syllabus.
June 3, 2024 Anti-Semitism Letter Sent to MIT President Kornbluth and MIT Cor...Levi Shapiro
Letter from the Congress of the United States regarding Anti-Semitism sent June 3rd to MIT President Sally Kornbluth, MIT Corp Chair, Mark Gorenberg
Dear Dr. Kornbluth and Mr. Gorenberg,
The US House of Representatives is deeply concerned by ongoing and pervasive acts of antisemitic
harassment and intimidation at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Failing to act decisively to ensure a safe learning environment for all students would be a grave dereliction of your responsibilities as President of MIT and Chair of the MIT Corporation.
This Congress will not stand idly by and allow an environment hostile to Jewish students to persist. The House believes that your institution is in violation of Title VI of the Civil Rights Act, and the inability or
unwillingness to rectify this violation through action requires accountability.
Postsecondary education is a unique opportunity for students to learn and have their ideas and beliefs challenged. However, universities receiving hundreds of millions of federal funds annually have denied
students that opportunity and have been hijacked to become venues for the promotion of terrorism, antisemitic harassment and intimidation, unlawful encampments, and in some cases, assaults and riots.
The House of Representatives will not countenance the use of federal funds to indoctrinate students into hateful, antisemitic, anti-American supporters of terrorism. Investigations into campus antisemitism by the Committee on Education and the Workforce and the Committee on Ways and Means have been expanded into a Congress-wide probe across all relevant jurisdictions to address this national crisis. The undersigned Committees will conduct oversight into the use of federal funds at MIT and its learning environment under authorities granted to each Committee.
• The Committee on Education and the Workforce has been investigating your institution since December 7, 2023. The Committee has broad jurisdiction over postsecondary education, including its compliance with Title VI of the Civil Rights Act, campus safety concerns over disruptions to the learning environment, and the awarding of federal student aid under the Higher Education Act.
• The Committee on Oversight and Accountability is investigating the sources of funding and other support flowing to groups espousing pro-Hamas propaganda and engaged in antisemitic harassment and intimidation of students. The Committee on Oversight and Accountability is the principal oversight committee of the US House of Representatives and has broad authority to investigate “any matter” at “any time” under House Rule X.
• The Committee on Ways and Means has been investigating several universities since November 15, 2023, when the Committee held a hearing entitled From Ivory Towers to Dark Corners: Investigating the Nexus Between Antisemitism, Tax-Exempt Universities, and Terror Financing. The Committee followed the hearing with letters to those institutions on January 10, 202
1. Usability and UX at the
University of Liverpool
Jeff Woods
University of Liverpool Library
2. Will be looking at:
• Why did we do it
• How did we do it
• What did we learn
• Where to next
Usability study
3. Began early 2015
Cross-Library project group formed
• Academic Liaison
• Content, Collections and Delivery
• Customer Services
• Systems
Initial focus on EDS branded locally as ‘DISCOVER’
Usability study
4. “to make informed, evidence based changes to our main resource
discovery platforms, improving their usability and effectiveness, and
therefore the Library service and student experience, in line with
objectives identified in Library’s strategic plan”
• How and to what extent our users were engaging with these
platforms
• How easy, efficient and effective they found it to locate and
access content
• If it met their information needs
• What they liked and disliked
We wanted to find out:
Why?
5. 3 stage approach
• Survey
• Usability test sessions
• Focus group discussions
Philip, M. (2010) Do students want a one-stop-shop to help them navigate their way around the maze
of library resources? A usability study looking at the beta version of Summon, the new library search
engine at the University of Huddersfield. M.A. University of Sheffield.
http://eprints.hud.ac.uk/9824/
McManamon, C. and Smith, S. (2014). Library Search: survey, usability study and focus group report.
Manchester Metropolitan University.
https://www.academia.edu/28313928/Library_Search_survey_usability_study_and_focus_group_report
How?
6. How?
1. Survey
Survey
• QuickTap survey app
• Library staff with iPads roaming library social areas
• Pop-up Library event
• Online version (“soft launch”)
7. How?
1. Survey
Analysis
• 719 responses (1 every 3 minutes!)
• Healthy representation of wider n
• Free text comments coded and categorised
• Excel based dashboard
• Post survey staff de-briefing session
8. How?
2. Usability sessions
Semi-structured search tasks
• Task 1 – researching a topic
• Task 2 – searching for specific, known items
• Task 3 – researching a topic using an alternate version of ‘DISCOVER’
• 5 sessions, 20 participants in total
9. How?
2. Usability sessions
Observation checklist:
Systematically recorded the occurrence of particular, pre-defined
search techniques and the use of specific features, facets and
functionality
Anything else of interest
10. How?
3. Focus Groups
• Followed usability sessions
• Participants asked to reflect upon their typical information
seeking behaviour both during the test sessions and in a wider,
everyday context
• PGR facilitators
11. • Experimented with different approaches to survey
• Twitter poll
• “Coffee and Chat” format
• Link to survey from OPAC
• Focus group discussions but no usability test sessions
How?
OPAC review
12. What?
Lessons learned:
• Survey approaches
• Recruitment woes
• Focus group facilitation
• Challenging assumptions – branding & awareness and need
for open mind
• Technical knowledge within the team
13. Where to next?
• Need for iterative review
• Responsive to the developing and changing needs of users
• Applying ethnographic approaches to UX
• different user groups
• online content and spaces
• Determine and develop methodology
• diaries
• cognitive mapping
• semi-structured interviews
14. More information:
Woods, J (2014). Discover: Survey, Usability Testing and Focus
Group Report. University of Liverpool.
http://livrepository.liverpool.ac.uk/3003105/
Woods, J., Gillespie, E. & McManamon, C., (2016). Discovering
discovery: lessons learnt from a usability study at the University of
Liverpool. Insights. 29(3), pp.258–265. DOI:
http://doi.org/10.1629/uksg.320
