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Assessment and Communication: Mission, Charge and Goals 2012
Posted 12/07/12 by jl41
Our mission: Using words, numbers, and imagery, the Assessment and Communication Department (A&C) helps users, staff, and stakeholders to understand the Library and its environment. Its... More >>
What Students Don't Know
Posted 09/01/11 by agc24
Two year study on 5 campuses in Chicago examining how students view and user their campus libraries. Part of the ERIAL Project More >>
What Motivates International Students? - A British Council's Survey
Posted 09/30/10 by xl49
September 30, 2010
"Overseas students head to Britain for quality, to the United States for career improvement and to Germany for low tuition, according to a new study.
The British Council’s Student... More >>
Exploring the Landscape: What Institutional Websites reveal about Student Learning Outcomes assessment activities
Posted 07/14/10 by dj13
When they're criticized for doing too little to measure how much and how well their students learn, colleges often complain that they don't get enough credit for the assessment activity in... More >>
Library usage and final grades
Posted 07/02/10 by ksc3
A librarian from the U of Huddersfield in W. Yorkshire worked with student records, library visits and circulation data (both print and electronic uses) to see if there were any correlations between... More >>
Campus technology trends
Posted 01/29/10 by rge1
Going up? Ownership of smartphones and Apple computers is rising sharply on college campuses. More >>
"Are We There Yet?" ECAR Report on e-books
Posted 01/29/10 by gss1
This is a nice, clear-headed view of the e-book landscape (not changed, I think, by Apple's iPad). The authors argue that e-books are coming, that the transition may not be smooth, and that... More >>
42 Librarians have left Univ. Houston since 2003
Posted 01/15/10 by kgj2
I'm not sure if this high turnover rate is part of a broader trend, or just a Houston anomaly. I wonder how Cornell or other institutions compare... More >>
And now for something completely different...
Posted 01/08/10 by gss1
I just read through the essays from the upcoming ALCTS symposium “Living Digital”: http://www.ala.org/ala/mgrps/divs/alcts/confevents/past/ala/mwinter/10/future.cfm More >>
The ECAR Study of Undergraduate Students and Information Technology, 2009
Posted 12/22/09 by zk10
Posted on behalf of Oya Rieger:
"What I found especially interesting is that although the report confirms the IT use characteristics often assigned to the Net Generation, it concludes noting that... More >>