Thursday, October 20
Thursday's program includes the FACRL Board Meeting at the Hunt Library conference room from 4 - 5:30 p.m. Wine and cheese reception is scheduled from 5 - 7 pm.
Friday, October 21
Friday's program starts at 8 a.m. with a breakfast and coffee, followed by keynote session and presentations by academic librarians from across the state. Poster sessions will be available throughout the day for attendees to view and discuss.
Friday's program will be held at the ICI Center. (For more information about the ICI Center go to: http://www.erau.edu/db/intramural/ici.html)
Keynote:
"Recreating Library & Technology Services for Florida's Academic Libraries"
Jim Morris
Executive Director, Library and Community Services, Florida Gateway College
Co-Chair of the Task Force for the Future of Academic Libraries in Florida
Shirley Hallblade, Ph.D.
Dean of the Library, University of North Florida
Co-Chair of the Task Force for the Future of Academic Libraries in Florida
Speakers
Susan Montgomery,
Rollins College
- Beyond Anecdotes: Learning About Our Users’ Library Space Needs Through Quantitative & Qualitative Methods
- Theme: Content Delivery and User Expectations
- Assessment of how library patrons use space and the evaluation of their needs has become a hot topic in library research. But determining the best way to obtain information about their activity can be a challenge. Two types of data collection are quantitative and qualitative. Quantitative data provides a numerical count of what activities students perform within the library and therefore can be measured. Qualitative data gives personal opinions, feedback and individual perspectives regarding a topic but is not measurable. At Olin Library, we conducted two studies and we were interested to learn if we would get substantially different results from a user observation study, a quantitative method, than from the results of asking users about their library space needs, a qualitative method. Essentially, would the results from both methods provide complementary results enabling us to obtain a comprehensive picture about our patrons’ needs and redesign the space to improve their library experience?
Karyn Waters-Zelbovitz,
Keiser University, Lakeland Library
- The Proactive Accreditation Library (PAL)
- Theme: Return of Investment (ROI) in Libraries
- Academic library directors repeatedly prepare for various accreditation and certification reviews. Preparation for library accreditation review has been the focus of research studies and the results would be more useful if considered comprehensively rather than single aspects of the review. A comprehensive approach that enveloped the key areas of library accreditation review would allow specific skills and responses to be developed by library director for accreditation preparedness. On occasion, the library director will sustain a citation for a failed review. Typically, the accreditation process will pass without serious changes being required. However, the accreditation process is one that most library directors find perplexing and anxiety provoking. Lack of accreditation understanding, failure to prepare over time, dire professional consequences for failure, and minimal support systems have resulted in an unnecessary performance gap. Simply stated, most academic library directors want their library to exceed requirements, benchmarks, and industry standards.
Whitney A. Curtis,
Stetson University College of Law
Wanita Scroggs,
Stetson University College of Law
- The 21st Century “Bookmobile”: All That and the Kitchen Sink Too!
- Theme: Content Delivery & User Expectations
- In today’s world, we are in constant motion. In order to be responsive to our users’ needs academic law libraries need to be equally mobile by making every resource and service available anytime anywhere. At the Dolly and Homer Hand Law Library, we meet our users wherever and whenever they are. We have federated searching of all our resources. This allows our users the option of one click searching. Faculty and students have immediate access to all print and electronic resources, so no more separate searches for different material types. There is easy filtering of search results and direct links to full-text articles from the search results page. We have mobile technology to allow users to access our catalog via their smartphones and other mobile devices. They can access their library account, conduct catalog searches, or link back to the main site. The technology recognizes the mobile device, so no separate APP required. We offer database training synchronously via the Internet and recorded asynchronous webcasts on the use of multiple legal resources. The recordings can be used by the students at any time and used by faculty in conjunction with their teaching tools. We offer all this and much more.
Michelle Demeter,
Florida State University
Rachel Besara,
Florida State University
- More than You Bargained for: Using ROI to Demonstrate the Value of a Library Tutoring Program
- Theme: Return of Investment (ROI) in Academic Libraries
- When campus partners give libraries funding, communicating the impact of the partner’s contribution can be vital to sustaining the relationship and the dollars. One method of doing this is by calculating the return the library gives to the campus community on the partner’s investment, their ROI. Using a simple formula and financial research, it is possible to calculate the ROI of many library programs. This poster will demonstrate and discuss how Florida State University Libraries used this method to calculate the ROI of one library service, the late-night peer tutoring program, the Learning District, which is funded by the Student Government Association. This allowed for the Learning District’s success and high value to be expressed in concrete financial terms; terms that impressed SGA and contributed toward the decision to continue funding the program despite the difficult economic climate on campus.
*Program Co-sponsored by
Florida Library Association
Academic Libraries Member Group
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