This blog was originally created for an ACRL preconference: Action Research: How to easily incorporate evidence-based librarianship into your professional practice for the ALA Annual Conference 2011 in New Orleans. Parts of the blog were updated when it was used for a preconference, Action Research: Using Data to Change, Invigorate, and Inspire your Work, at the CARL Conference 2012.
Stephanie Rosenblatt is the Instruction Coordinator and Education Librarian at the Pollak Library at California State University, Fullerton. As an instruction/reference librarian, she works with everyone from incoming freshmen to doctoral candidates. She also coordinates the Curriculum Materials Center where she gets to dabble in access services and collection development. Her research interests include examining student work product in order to understand not only what information sources her students are using but how they are using them. She can be contacted at srosenblatt@fullerton.edu
April Cunningham is the Library Instruction Coordinator at Saddleback College in Mission Viejo, California. She develops supplemental and credit curriculum, assesses student learning outcomes, and also supports other faculty in their efforts to develop students’ academic literacy. As a member of the Educational Planning & Assessment committee she leads the campus effort to assess the general education information competency requirement. She is working on an EDD in Educational Leadership in order to become a more skilled faculty leader. Her research will conceptualize the structural conditions that influence community college librarians’ contributions to student learning. She can be contacted at acunningham@saddleback.edu.
Virginia Allison is an Associate Research Librarian for Visual Arts at
The University of California, Irvine. Her subject specialties are
Studio Art, Art History, Film & Media Studies and Dance. She arrived at Irvine in
2008 after serving as Assistant Librarian/Visual Resources Curator at
Watkins College of Art & Design in Nashville, TN. Virginia serves as the chair of UC Irvine Libraries Image Services Team, where she is helping to integrate visual literacy standards into the outreach mission of the the libraries. Her research interests are in visual literacy and data visualization.
Virginia Allison. Research Librarian for Visual Arts and Dance. University of California, Irvine. v.allison@uci.edu
Click here to see Virginia’s blog, Grass Roots Visual Literacy.
Resources for Evidence Based Research in Libraries
Stephanie
Fantastic presentation of free data analysis tools. Thank you for oranizing and sharing these. The ability to use these with actual data was the icing on the cake!
Thanks so much, this has gotten me thinking about ways to address our multiple forms of data that we have sitting around and have never been analyzed. It’s given me a good context for turning “anecdotal” evidence into something that has some teeth in the academic culture.
This was a very valuable experience. I especially liked the exposure to a variety of free applications with complementary purposes. Also, the overall message was that action research is very doable and a great way to build “buy-in” for change. Great job presenters!
Very helpful! My dean now demands data, and I’ve been trying to get her to understand how coding responses from open ended questions is valid. Now I have more tools to use to present those responses in graphic form. Nice breakouts (I had a great table!).
Very informative session. A lot of information to digest, but I gained enough of an understanding to play with these tools when I have more time back at home. You all were great presenters!
This presentation was very, very good, I was not sure if I would get here in time to catch this presentation and found that I was able to catch up and get so much info that I can use in my dissertation in, coincidentally, community college leadership.
The tools to use were fantastic to learn about. Actually working in groups helped me to take a multi-perspective approach to determining how I would approach this research problem.
The slides and content were very comprehensive.
Excellent program!