SACS Reaffirmation
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Assessment : 2007 - 2008 : Educational Support :
Library, Newton Gresham
3 Goals 12 Objectives 19 Indicators 22 Criteria 20 Findings 17 Actions
GOAL: Collection
| Objective | Collection Development | |
| Revise the Collection Development Policy to provide access to print, web-based and locally produced content. Increase the scope and depth of information resources to support research and the curriculum. Associated Goals: Collection, Services |
| Indicator | Collection Development  Completed revision of the Collection Development Policy. |
| Criteria | Acquisitions Try to acquire at least 11,000 new titles, as the budget will allow. Increase the electronic database collection by 10% if budget allows. Acquire 80% of the "best of year" lists. |
| Finding | Acquisitions Ordered materials using standard finding aids inculding Choice, YBP approval plan and other standard resources. As of June 2008 9616 new books were added to the collection; a total of 19935 new items were added to the collection as of June 2008. The Library acquired 20 new databases, increasing our holdings by 10%. |
| Criteria | Collection Development Complete Revision of collection development policy. |
| Finding | Collection Development Collection Development Policy was completed with the exception of 13 areas as of June 2008. |
| Criteria | Collection Evaluation Move from Conspectus to OCLC''s WorldCat Collection Analysis. |
| Finding | Collection Evaluation Library''s database was sent to OCLC in May 2007 and returned in Nov. 2008;clean-up of records not added to WorldCat was completed in Spring 2008. In January 2008, the Library used Bowker’s new Resources for College Libraries (RCL) to compare our collection to the RCL core collection covering 58 curriculum-specific subject areas. The analysis matched approximately 43.67% (25,885 titles) in the core list of 59,274 in Resources for College Libraries. Librarians will use this resource to identify core titles in specific core areas that should be added to the collection. |
| Indicator | Digital Archives/Repository Identify Special Collections to be added to the digital archive. Identify new digital management software. |
| Criteria | Digital Archives/Respository Migrate images and metadata to ContentDM |
| Finding | Digital Archives/Repository ContentDM was selected as new management software. |
| Finding | Digital Archives/Repository Images and metadata were transfered to ContentDM |
| Indicator | Direct To Faculty Add newly published (last 2 years) research monographs requested by faculty through ILL to satisfy immediate and long term needs. |
| Criteria | Direct from faculty Order 100% of all new monographs requested by faculty, cost less than $100. |
| Finding | Direct to Faculty All books requested through this program were ordered. As of July 10, 2008 a total of 7 books were added to the collection to support faculty research. |
| Indicator | Information Resources Acquire information resources to support research and the curriculum. |
| Criteria | Information Resources Try to acquire at least 11,000 new titles, as the budget will allow. Increase the electronic database collection by 10% if budget allows. Promote new acquitions in the Newsletter and in e-mails to SHSU community. |
| Indicator | New Course Reviews Librarians review new courses and programs to determine adequacy of the collection. |
| Criteria | Course Reviews If course review indicates,acquire materials as needed within budgetary constains. |
| Finding | Course Reviews Librarians identified areas that need updating as they reviewed the new course proposal. Samples are attached. Books and journals are added as the budget allows. |
| Indicator | New Faculty Orientation Meet with new faculty in orientation sessions at the beginning of the school year and individually. |
| Indicator | Partnerships/Consortia Participate in strategic partnerships for productive collaboration with the state, region, nation and campus.Librarians will use authoritative, evaluative selection tools. |
| Criteria | Partnerships Use membership in consortia to share resources and acquire new resources when opportunity and budget allow. |
| Finding | Partnerships Maintained partnerships with Texas Independent College and University Libraries, The Texas State University System Libraries, (including San Angelo State and Stephen F. Austin)Amigos and TexShare. |
| Indicator | Review ILL Request Review ILL requests to determine need add monographs and journals to the collection |
| Criteria | Book review, ILL Add books frequently requested by students and faculty that support the curriculum and research. |
| Finding | Book review, ILL As of June 30, 2008, ILL had not sent a list of title to Collection Development for review. |
| Criteria | Journal review, ILL Add journals when ILL cost exceeds subscription cost. |
| Finding | Journal Reviews As of June 30, 2008, ILL had not provided Collection Development with a list of titles for consideration. |
Actions for Objective:
| Action | Collection Development Complete revisions of the 13 sections. |
| Action | Course Reviews Program will continue. |
| Action | Direct to faculty Program will continue next year. |
| Action | Journal Review, ILL Will be continued next year. |
| Action | Partnerships Continue next year. |
GOAL: Collection
| Objective | Collection Evaluation | |
| Evaluate the collection to ensure it meets curricular and research needs.
Associated Goals: Collection, Services |
| Indicator | Collection Evaluation Move from Conspectus to OCLC's WorldCat Collection Analysis. |
| Indicator | Faculty Satisfaction Continuous improvement in faculty satifaction with library support of research and curriculum. |
| Criteria | Faculty satisfaction Library will maintain a 4 rating on the annual Faculty Senate Survey. |
| Finding | Faculty Satisfaction The response to the Faculty Senate Survey shows that overall faculty is more than satisfied with Library Services. Since 2001 the satisfaction score has increased with a slight dip in 2007 and 2008. A review of each college’s response shows a mean for Library Service of over 4.0 for all but Arts and Sciences where only one third of the faculty participated in the survey. When less than 40% of the faculty of a College participated the results were less than 4.0 for support of the curriculum. While the Faculty’s view of Library Services supporting the curriculum is not significantly lower than the support for research, the results are lower, in 2008 the mean was 3.95. The Library continues to talk with Departments and individual faculty members about these results. |
| Finding | New Faculty Orientation Packets were sent to all new faculty which included copies of items on listed on the faculty services page. Librarians met with individual faculty. Director met with the Humanities and Social Science new faculty before classes began. |
| Criteria | New faculty orientation Meet with new faculty during orientation. Librarians will meet with all new faculty in their subject area. |
Actions for Objective:
| Action | Collection Evaluation Areas for evaluation using WorldCat Collection Analysis and Resources for College will be determined. |
GOAL: Collection
| Objective | Digital Archive/Respository | |
| Establish a digital archive making content readily accessible.Plan the structure of a digital repository; identify stakeholders; identify software (turnkey or open source. Associated Goals: Collection, Promotion, Services |
Actions for Objective:
| Action | Digital Archives/Repository Launch new digital commons Fall 2008 |
GOAL: Collection
| Objective | Faculty Input | |
| Provide opportunities for faculty to discuss their needs, research and curricular. Associated Goals: Collection, Services |
Actions for Objective:
This objective has no actions associated with it.
GOAL: Collection
| Objective | Information Access | |
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Provide effective and efficent access to materials needed for research. Associated Goals: Collection, Services |
| Indicator | Information Access Users will be able find book and articles using a single search interface, like google. |
| Criteria | Information Access A single search interface, Webfeat, will be implemented. Users will be surveyed and more than 30% of the undergraduates will prefer E-Z search to using individual databases. |
| Finding | Access to Resources The number of hits on the Library’s homepage continues to increase. A new webpage was launched in fiscal 2006 and use as indicated by the number hits increased almost immediately. The increase between 2006 and 2007 was dramatic; as of June 2008 the number of hits on the NGL homepage increased by 26%. |
| Finding | Information Access As of June 30, 2008 the findings of the survey are being analysized. The preliminary report is attached. Undergradutate students like the single search function but graduate students prefer to search the individual databases. |
| Indicator | Newsletter Publish a newsletter in print and electronically. |
| Criteria | Newsletter Issue first library newsletter. |
| Finding | Newsletter Published Newsletter; fall semester; Spring semester''s delayed due resignation of editor. |
Actions for Objective:
| Action | Information Access EZ search will be continued. |
GOAL: Collection
| Objective | Information Resources | |
| Increase the scope and depth of information resources to support research and the curriculum. Associated Goals: Collection, Services |
| Indicator | Information Resources Acquire information resources to support research and the curriculum. |
| Criteria | Information Resources Try to acquire at least 11,000 new titles, as the budget will allow. Increase the electronic database collection by 10% if budget allows. Promote new acquitions in the Newsletter and in e-mails to SHSU community. |
Actions for Objective:
| Action | Information Resources Continue to acquire information resources to support research and the curriculum within the constrains of our budget. |
GOAL: Collection
| Objective | Library Instruction | |
| Provide course related library instruction. Associated Goals: Collection, Services |
| Indicator | Instructional Sessions Increase the number and type of instructional sessions |
| Criteria | Instructional Sessions Increase the number of instructional session by 10%. |
| Finding | Library Instruction, Evaluation, Students Analysis of Fall Semester 2007 was complete by June 30, 2008; Spring and Summer Semester will be available at the end of summer. In the Fall semester 97.4% of the students completing the self-report found the sessions relevant and 97.1% said the examples were clear. |
| Finding | Library Instructional Sessions The number of Library Instruction sessions has been relatively stable for a number of years. In 2004 a renovation project required librarians to become mobile and take instruction to classrooms and computer labs across campus, thus reducing the number of sessions. In FY 2005 the number of instruction sessions increased by 33%. In 2006 the number of instruction session remained stable; the number of presentations increased by 20% in 2007. As of June 30, 2008, the number of presentations declined by approximately 32%. The Librarians will try to assess the reason for the decline and try increase the number of presentations. Librarians provide instruction at The University Center and at other off campus sites. |
| Criteria | Instructional tools Increase the number of instructional tools,guides (by 20%) and tutorials (by 10%). |
| Finding | Instructional tools The library did not reach the stated objective of an increase the number of instructional tools, guides or tutorials. This year one of the reference librarians developed a subject specific search engine for History. |
| Indicator | Self Report Use student self report and report from faculty to determine the relevancy of the session to the class. |
Actions for Objective:
| Action | Instructional Tools The Librarians will determine the number of guides to revise and new guides to add. A subject specific search engine for curriuclum and instruction will be launched. |
| Action | Library Instructional Sessions Librarians will review the information for faculty evaluations to try to determine the cause of the decline. A work session will be held to discuss the decline during second summer session 2008. |
GOAL: Collection
| Objective | Training/Development | |
| Provide oportunities for training and professional development to increase skill and knowledge to meet the changing needs of the library and its users.
Associated Goals: Collection, Promotion, Services |
| Indicator | Development/training Librarians and staff will participate in training and professional development activities. |
| Criteria | Training and Professional 50% of Library faculty will attend professional meetings. 10% of the staff will attend workshops/meetings/training. Training sessions will be provided for faculty and staff. |
Actions for Objective:
| Action | Training/Development Support for training and develop will remain at the same level if the budget allows. |
GOAL: Collection
| Objective | User Satisfaction | |
| Improve user satisfaction with library services
Associated Goals: Collection, Services |
| Indicator | Access To Resources Webpage will provide easy access to resources. |
| Criteria | Access to Resources The ease of access to library resources will be demonstrated by an increase in number of hits on the library''s homepage. The number of hits will increase by 20%. |
| Indicator | Faculty Direct Deliver books and articles from the SHSU collection to faculty offices and desktops. |
| Criteria | Faculty direct Provide SHSU owned books and articles to faculty in their offices and on their desktops within 3 work days. |
| Indicator | Library Instruction, Evaluation Evaluate instructional sessions to determine how well the session met the instructional objective of the class. |
| Criteria | Library Instruction,Evaluation, Faculty Determine base from first year data. |
| Finding | Library Instruction, Evaluation, Faculty In response to 3 critical questions the faculty members found library instruction sessions appropriate, well organized and provide students with a greater understanding of research sources. The total number of faculty responding to the survey was 56; 78.6% of the faculty found the session appropriate for the course and assignment. More than 76% for the respondents felt that the librarian was well-organized, knowledgeable and helpful. The number responding to the question about the students'' work reflecting a better understanding of research sources after the session was 49; of those responding, 85.7% agreed that the session had a positive impact on student on their assignments. See the attachment. |
| Criteria | Library Instruction,Evaluation, Students Maintain a 95% relavency rate as measured by questions on the relevance to assignment/course and clearness of the examples as using the student''s self report. |
| Indicator | Resource Delivery Provide materials not owned by SHSU requested through ILL, accurately and efficently. |
| Criteria | Interlibrary loan Provide ILL materials to users with in 7 to 10 days. |
| Finding | Interlibrary Loan The overall turnaround time for books and articles is 5.82 days. Articles are recieved in 4.37 days and books are received in 7.98 days. |
Actions for Objective:
| Action | Faculty Satisfaction Library will talk to colleges and departments to try to determine what additional resouces are needed to support the curriculum. The new faculty orientation will continue. |
GOAL: Promotion
| Objective | Digital Archive/Respository | |
| Establish a digital archive making content readily accessible.Plan the structure of a digital repository; identify stakeholders; identify software (turnkey or open source. Associated Goals: Collection, Promotion, Services |
Actions for Objective:
| Action | Digital Archives/Repository Launch new digital commons Fall 2008 |
GOAL: Promotion
| Objective | ILL/Document Delivery | |
| Provide effective and efficent interlibrary loan services/document delivery. Associated Goals: Promotion, Services |
Actions for Objective:
| Action | ILL/Document Delivery The service continues to exceed expectations of the SHSU community; will continue to provide necessary support to maintain efficiency. |
GOAL: Promotion
| Objective | Publicity | |
| Disseminate, more effectively, information about Library resources and services.
Associated Goals: Promotion, Services |
Actions for Objective:
| Action | Newsletter Continue next year. Publish at the beginning of Fall 2008. |
GOAL: Promotion
| Objective | Training/Development | |
| Provide oportunities for training and professional development to increase skill and knowledge to meet the changing needs of the library and its users.
Associated Goals: Collection, Promotion, Services |
| Indicator | Development/training Librarians and staff will participate in training and professional development activities. |
| Criteria | Training and Professional 50% of Library faculty will attend professional meetings. 10% of the staff will attend workshops/meetings/training. Training sessions will be provided for faculty and staff. |
Actions for Objective:
| Action | Training/Development Support for training and develop will remain at the same level if the budget allows. |
GOAL: Services
| Objective | Collection Development | |
| Revise the Collection Development Policy to provide access to print, web-based and locally produced content. Increase the scope and depth of information resources to support research and the curriculum. Associated Goals: Collection, Services |
| Indicator | Collection Development Completed revision of the Collection Development Policy. |
| Criteria | Acquisitions Try to acquire at least 11,000 new titles, as the budget will allow. Increase the electronic database collection by 10% if budget allows. Acquire 80% of the "best of year" lists. |
| Finding | Acquisitions Ordered materials using standard finding aids inculding Choice, YBP approval plan and other standard resources. As of June 2008 9616 new books were added to the collection; a total of 19935 new items were added to the collection as of June 2008. The Library acquired 20 new databases, increasing our holdings by 10%. |
| Criteria | Collection Development Complete Revision of collection development policy. |
| Finding | Collection Development Collection Development Policy was completed with the exception of 13 areas as of June 2008. |
| Criteria | Collection Evaluation Move from Conspectus to OCLC''s WorldCat Collection Analysis. |
| Finding | Collection Evaluation Library''s database was sent to OCLC in May 2007 and returned in Nov. 2008;clean-up of records not added to WorldCat was completed in Spring 2008. In January 2008, the Library used Bowker’s new Resources for College Libraries (RCL) to compare our collection to the RCL core collection covering 58 curriculum-specific subject areas. The analysis matched approximately 43.67% (25,885 titles) in the core list of 59,274 in Resources for College Libraries. Librarians will use this resource to identify core titles in specific core areas that should be added to the collection. |
| Indicator | Digital Archives/Repository Identify Special Collections to be added to the digital archive. Identify new digital management software. |
| Criteria | Digital Archives/Respository Migrate images and metadata to ContentDM |
| Finding | Digital Archives/Repository ContentDM was selected as new management software. |
| Finding | Digital Archives/Repository Images and metadata were transfered to ContentDM |
| Indicator | Direct To Faculty Add newly published (last 2 years) research monographs requested by faculty through ILL to satisfy immediate and long term needs. |
| Criteria | Direct from faculty Order 100% of all new monographs requested by faculty, cost less than $100. |
| Finding | Direct to Faculty All books requested through this program were ordered. As of July 10, 2008 a total of 7 books were added to the collection to support faculty research. |
| Indicator | Information Resources Acquire information resources to support research and the curriculum. |
| Criteria | Information Resources Try to acquire at least 11,000 new titles, as the budget will allow. Increase the electronic database collection by 10% if budget allows. Promote new acquitions in the Newsletter and in e-mails to SHSU community. |
| Indicator | New Course Reviews Librarians review new courses and programs to determine adequacy of the collection. |
| Criteria | Course Reviews If course review indicates,acquire materials as needed within budgetary constains. |
| Finding | Course Reviews Librarians identified areas that need updating as they reviewed the new course proposal. Samples are attached. Books and journals are added as the budget allows. |
| Indicator | New Faculty Orientation Meet with new faculty in orientation sessions at the beginning of the school year and individually. |
| Indicator | Partnerships/Consortia Participate in strategic partnerships for productive collaboration with the state, region, nation and campus.Librarians will use authoritative, evaluative selection tools. |
| Criteria | Partnerships Use membership in consortia to share resources and acquire new resources when opportunity and budget allow. |
| Finding | Partnerships Maintained partnerships with Texas Independent College and University Libraries, The Texas State University System Libraries, (including San Angelo State and Stephen F. Austin)Amigos and TexShare. |
| Indicator | Review ILL Request Review ILL requests to determine need add monographs and journals to the collection |
| Criteria | Book review, ILL Add books frequently requested by students and faculty that support the curriculum and research. |
| Finding | Book review, ILL As of June 30, 2008, ILL had not sent a list of title to Collection Development for review. |
| Criteria | Journal review, ILL Add journals when ILL cost exceeds subscription cost. |
| Finding | Journal Reviews As of June 30, 2008, ILL had not provided Collection Development with a list of titles for consideration. |
Actions for Objective:
| Action | Collection Development Complete revisions of the 13 sections. |
| Action | Course Reviews Program will continue. |
| Action | Direct to faculty Program will continue next year. |
| Action | Journal Review, ILL Will be continued next year. |
| Action | Partnerships Continue next year. |
GOAL: Services
| Objective | Collection Evaluation | |
| Evaluate the collection to ensure it meets curricular and research needs.
Associated Goals: Collection, Services |
| Indicator | Collection Evaluation Move from Conspectus to OCLC's WorldCat Collection Analysis. |
| Indicator | Faculty Satisfaction Continuous improvement in faculty satifaction with library support of research and curriculum. |
| Criteria | Faculty satisfaction Library will maintain a 4 rating on the annual Faculty Senate Survey. |
| Finding | Faculty Satisfaction The response to the Faculty Senate Survey shows that overall faculty is more than satisfied with Library Services. Since 2001 the satisfaction score has increased with a slight dip in 2007 and 2008. A review of each college’s response shows a mean for Library Service of over 4.0 for all but Arts and Sciences where only one third of the faculty participated in the survey. When less than 40% of the faculty of a College participated the results were less than 4.0 for support of the curriculum. While the Faculty’s view of Library Services supporting the curriculum is not significantly lower than the support for research, the results are lower, in 2008 the mean was 3.95. The Library continues to talk with Departments and individual faculty members about these results. |
| Finding | New Faculty Orientation Packets were sent to all new faculty which included copies of items on listed on the faculty services page. Librarians met with individual faculty. Director met with the Humanities and Social Science new faculty before classes began. |
| Criteria | New faculty orientation Meet with new faculty during orientation. Librarians will meet with all new faculty in their subject area. |
Actions for Objective:
| Action | Collection Evaluation Areas for evaluation using WorldCat Collection Analysis and Resources for College will be determined. |
GOAL: Services
| Objective | Digital Archive/Respository | |
| Establish a digital archive making content readily accessible.Plan the structure of a digital repository; identify stakeholders; identify software (turnkey or open source. Associated Goals: Collection, Promotion, Services |
Actions for Objective:
| Action | Digital Archives/Repository Launch new digital commons Fall 2008 |
GOAL: Services
| Objective | Faculty Input | |
| Provide opportunities for faculty to discuss their needs, research and curricular. Associated Goals: Collection, Services |
Actions for Objective:
This objective has no actions associated with it.
GOAL: Services
| Objective | ILL/Document Delivery | |
| Provide effective and efficent interlibrary loan services/document delivery. Associated Goals: Promotion, Services |
Actions for Objective:
| Action | ILL/Document Delivery The service continues to exceed expectations of the SHSU community; will continue to provide necessary support to maintain efficiency. |
GOAL: Services
| Objective | Information Access | |
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Provide effective and efficent access to materials needed for research. Associated Goals: Collection, Services |
| Indicator | Information Access Users will be able find book and articles using a single search interface, like google. |
| Criteria | Information Access A single search interface, Webfeat, will be implemented. Users will be surveyed and more than 30% of the undergraduates will prefer E-Z search to using individual databases. |
| Finding | Access to Resources The number of hits on the Library’s homepage continues to increase. A new webpage was launched in fiscal 2006 and use as indicated by the number hits increased almost immediately. The increase between 2006 and 2007 was dramatic; as of June 2008 the number of hits on the NGL homepage increased by 26%. |
| Finding | Information Access As of June 30, 2008 the findings of the survey are being analysized. The preliminary report is attached. Undergradutate students like the single search function but graduate students prefer to search the individual databases. |
| Indicator | Newsletter Publish a newsletter in print and electronically. |
| Criteria | Newsletter Issue first library newsletter. |
| Finding | Newsletter Published Newsletter; fall semester; Spring semester''s delayed due resignation of editor. |
Actions for Objective:
| Action | Information Access EZ search will be continued. |
GOAL: Services
| Objective | Information Resources | |
| Increase the scope and depth of information resources to support research and the curriculum. Associated Goals: Collection, Services |
| Indicator | Information Resources Acquire information resources to support research and the curriculum. |
| Criteria | Information Resources Try to acquire at least 11,000 new titles, as the budget will allow. Increase the electronic database collection by 10% if budget allows. Promote new acquitions in the Newsletter and in e-mails to SHSU community. |
Actions for Objective:
| Action | Information Resources Continue to acquire information resources to support research and the curriculum within the constrains of our budget. |
GOAL: Services
| Objective | Library Instruction | |
| Provide course related library instruction. Associated Goals: Collection, Services |
| Indicator | Instructional Sessions Increase the number and type of instructional sessions |
| Criteria | Instructional Sessions Increase the number of instructional session by 10%. |
| Finding | Library Instruction, Evaluation, Students Analysis of Fall Semester 2007 was complete by June 30, 2008; Spring and Summer Semester will be available at the end of summer. In the Fall semester 97.4% of the students completing the self-report found the sessions relevant and 97.1% said the examples were clear. |
| Finding | Library Instructional Sessions The number of Library Instruction sessions has been relatively stable for a number of years. In 2004 a renovation project required librarians to become mobile and take instruction to classrooms and computer labs across campus, thus reducing the number of sessions. In FY 2005 the number of instruction sessions increased by 33%. In 2006 the number of instruction session remained stable; the number of presentations increased by 20% in 2007. As of June 30, 2008, the number of presentations declined by approximately 32%. The Librarians will try to assess the reason for the decline and try increase the number of presentations. Librarians provide instruction at The University Center and at other off campus sites. |
| Criteria | Instructional tools Increase the number of instructional tools,guides (by 20%) and tutorials (by 10%). |
| Finding | Instructional tools The library did not reach the stated objective of an increase the number of instructional tools, guides or tutorials. This year one of the reference librarians developed a subject specific search engine for History. |
| Indicator | Self Report Use student self report and report from faculty to determine the relevancy of the session to the class. |
Actions for Objective:
| Action | Instructional Tools The Librarians will determine the number of guides to revise and new guides to add. A subject specific search engine for curriuclum and instruction will be launched. |
| Action | Library Instructional Sessions Librarians will review the information for faculty evaluations to try to determine the cause of the decline. A work session will be held to discuss the decline during second summer session 2008. |
GOAL: Services
| Objective | Library Instruction Evaluation | |
| Evaluate instructional sessions to determine how well the session met the instructional objectives of the class Associated Goals: Services |
| Indicator | Library Instruction, Evaluation Evaluate instructional sessions to determine how well the session met the instructional objective of the class. |
| Criteria | Library Instruction,Evaluation, Faculty Determine base from first year data. |
| Finding | Library Instruction, Evaluation, Faculty In response to 3 critical questions the faculty members found library instruction sessions appropriate, well organized and provide students with a greater understanding of research sources. The total number of faculty responding to the survey was 56; 78.6% of the faculty found the session appropriate for the course and assignment. More than 76% for the respondents felt that the librarian was well-organized, knowledgeable and helpful. The number responding to the question about the students'' work reflecting a better understanding of research sources after the session was 49; of those responding, 85.7% agreed that the session had a positive impact on student on their assignments. See the attachment. |
| Criteria | Library Instruction,Evaluation, Students Maintain a 95% relavency rate as measured by questions on the relevance to assignment/course and clearness of the examples as using the student''s self report. |
Actions for Objective:
| Action | Library Instruction Evaluation, Faculty Continue to work with individual faculty to tailor sessions to course assignment. Develop follow-up strategies. |
| Action | Library Instruction Evaluation, Students Analysis of Spring and Summer student self reports will be completed at the end of the fiscal year. |
GOAL: Services
| Objective | Publicity | |
| Disseminate, more effectively, information about Library resources and services.
Associated Goals: Promotion, Services |
Actions for Objective:
| Action | Newsletter Continue next year. Publish at the beginning of Fall 2008. |
GOAL: Services
| Objective | Training/Development | |
| Provide oportunities for training and professional development to increase skill and knowledge to meet the changing needs of the library and its users.
Associated Goals: Collection, Promotion, Services |
| Indicator | Development/training Librarians and staff will participate in training and professional development activities. |
| Criteria | Training and Professional 50% of Library faculty will attend professional meetings. 10% of the staff will attend workshops/meetings/training. Training sessions will be provided for faculty and staff. |
Actions for Objective:
| Action | Training/Development Support for training and develop will remain at the same level if the budget allows. |
GOAL: Services
| Objective | User Satisfaction | |
| Improve user satisfaction with library services
Associated Goals: Collection, Services |
| Indicator | Access To Resources Webpage will provide easy access to resources. |
| Criteria | Access to Resources The ease of access to library resources will be demonstrated by an increase in number of hits on the library''s homepage. The number of hits will increase by 20%. |
| Indicator | Faculty Direct Deliver books and articles from the SHSU collection to faculty offices and desktops. |
| Criteria | Faculty direct Provide SHSU owned books and articles to faculty in their offices and on their desktops within 3 work days. |
| Indicator | Library Instruction, Evaluation Evaluate instructional sessions to determine how well the session met the instructional objective of the class. |
| Criteria | Library Instruction,Evaluation, Faculty Determine base from first year data. |
| Finding | Library Instruction, Evaluation, Faculty In response to 3 critical questions the faculty members found library instruction sessions appropriate, well organized and provide students with a greater understanding of research sources. The total number of faculty responding to the survey was 56; 78.6% of the faculty found the session appropriate for the course and assignment. More than 76% for the respondents felt that the librarian was well-organized, knowledgeable and helpful. The number responding to the question about the students'' work reflecting a better understanding of research sources after the session was 49; of those responding, 85.7% agreed that the session had a positive impact on student on their assignments. See the attachment. |
| Criteria | Library Instruction,Evaluation, Students Maintain a 95% relavency rate as measured by questions on the relevance to assignment/course and clearness of the examples as using the student''s self report. |
| Indicator | Resource Delivery Provide materials not owned by SHSU requested through ILL, accurately and efficently. |
| Criteria | Interlibrary loan Provide ILL materials to users with in 7 to 10 days. |
| Finding | Interlibrary Loan The overall turnaround time for books and articles is 5.82 days. Articles are recieved in 4.37 days and books are received in 7.98 days. |
Actions for Objective:
| Action | Faculty Satisfaction Library will talk to colleges and departments to try to determine what additional resouces are needed to support the curriculum. The new faculty orientation will continue. |