Provide seamless access to a collection of high quality resources, including print, web-based resources and locally produced content, which meet the curricular and research requirements of the University
Objective
Enhanced Catalog Record
Enhance catalog records with images of book jackets.
KPI
Enhance Catalog Records
Images of book jackets will appear in the search results (the hit list).
Result
Enhancing The Catalog With
Acquire the license through SIRSI to integrate the book jackets into our ILS> SirsiDynix Enterprise integrates with Bowker’s Syndetics ICE (Indexed Content Enrichment) to bring book cover images, and more to the Enterprise search experience. NGL worked with IT@Sam and SIRSI to implement the addition of book jackets to our online catalog. First testing in the development server and then moving to the Production server.
Action
Evaluate The Impact Of The Enhancement
As part of a survey on library use an item will be inserted to determine if the addition of the book jacket images was a factor in selecting a book, either online or print. If the budget allows we should consider adding book reviews as an enhancement to the catalog record.
Objective
Access To Born Digital Resources
Establish the policies and procedures to assure accessibility of items created and managed in digital form (born digitally).
KPI
Policy And Procedures
A policy providing guidance on the collection and preservtion of digitally born material will be created assuring accessibility to digital materials. In addition a processing workflow will be created to provide guidance on the selection and overall management of digitally born resources.
Result
Policy, Workflow
The policy and workflow were created and reviewed. Comments were placed on the documents and returned for discussion and revision.
Action
Policy And Procedures For Digitally Born Items
The documents will be revised. Beginning Fall 2015 items will be identified for preservation.
Goal
Instruction
Provide and improve the services that support the learning, teaching, and research needs of students and faculty
Objective
NGL 1101
Provide library instruction for students to assist them in developing basic information retrieval skill using all types of information formats, venues and resources in a one hour online information literacy course.
KPI
Student Success
Students will show evidence that they can select relevant and academically credible sources to support a research question and thesis. A pretesst-post test will be used to determine student knowledge coming at the beginning of the class and the improvement level at the end of the course. At least 80% of the students will show improvement.
Result
Student Performance
Eighty-two percent of the students who took both the pre-test and the post text scored eighty percent or above.
Action
Course Evolution
As Spring Semester 2015 progressed it became obvious that the students were not ready to create and evaluate sources for an annotated bibliogra[hy. Changes were made to assignments and the course focuses on helping the student understand what tools exist for their research, both on campus and online, how and when to use them, as wella s why and how to evaluate want they find. There are pieces to help them understand topics and thesis statements. Next next time the course is offered it will focus on how to do searches with evaluations, expanding on the changes made Spring Semester, to determine if they understood the material presented. Rather than the annotated bibliography the assignments will allow the student to create a short bibliography, not annotated, relevant to a subject that they will have been using all semester to do practice searches with, along with search terms and using Boolean operators.