Painting an Authentic Picture of Library Instruction: Using LibAnalytics to Go beyond the Numbers

Type of Presentation

Individual paper/presentation (20 minute presentation)

Target Audience

Higher Education

Presenter Information

Stephanie Rollins, Samford University, AL

Location

Room 2010

Proposal

See presentation description.

Short Description

In libraries, we capture statistics for almost every aspect of service. We use these statistics to prove our worth to administrators, deans, and faculty. We often capture details such as time, date, number of students, etc. for library instruction, but what does that really tell us? We often miss crucial information such as how well our students master information literacy skills and how additional feedback might inform changes in our instruction programming. Numbers do not often demonstrate a complete picture of how well or how poorly library instruction programs are working. This presentation will focus on how Samford University Library librarians use LibAnalytics to go beyond statistics to capture student, librarian, and faculty learning as well as inform information literacy outcomes.

Keywords

Library instruction, Library services statistics, Information literacy, Libray instruction programming, LibAnalytics

Publication Type and Release Option

Presentation (Open Access)

Recommended Citation

Rollins, Stephanie, "Painting an Authentic Picture of Library Instruction: Using LibAnalytics to Go beyond the Numbers" (2012). Georgia International Conference on Information Literacy. 67.
https://digitalcommons.georgiasouthern.edu/gaintlit/2012/2012/67