Planning & Organizational Research
March 1, 2012
Who
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Jeanne Boyle
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Janice T. Pilch
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Associate University Librarian for Planning and Organizational
Research, jeboyle@rulmail.rutgers.edu
Copyright and Licensing Librarian, janice.pilch@rutgers.edu
Christine Wolff
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Project Coordinator, christine.wolff@rutgers.edu
What
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Planning, program, and policy development
Research, analysis, measurement, and reporting
Ethical and legal awareness and integration
Strategic Planning for 2012-2015
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Scenario focus groups, discussions, call for activities
Draft plan disseminated
Reviewing and testing ≈60 key activities
Next up: publish plan, annual action plans
Policy Development
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Privacy policy completed, audit nearly complete
Next up: meeting rooms, exhibits, bulletin boards
LibSat
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Library Satisfaction
Continuous online survey, October 2009 Next up: après spring break bump up, new pop up, coding
review, updated reports, id what we did in response
LibPAS
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Library Performance Assessment System
Initially for national reporting to ARL, NCES
Monthly data entry underway
Next up: reports training, LIS imports, and annual data
entry
Learning Assessment
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Mission Assessment and Alignment Planning (MAAP)
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Undergraduate education pilot
Next up: id measures and provide data
Executive Council on Assessment
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New requirement for annual report
Next up: develop learning goals and measures
Website
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Ethnographic research project
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Usability study
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Consulting anthropologist
Student surveys and interviews
Coding and analysis
Web Board established
Website redesign underway
Search Team
Search box designs - 1 complex, 1 simple
Students walk and talk through script, receive incentive
Notes are being taken and will be analyzed
Google Analytics and an ongoing assessment plan
IRB, depending
How
Collaborative, transparent
Surveys, interviews, focus
groups, etc.
Sakai
Peers and aspirants drawn
from AAU publics
Copyright and Licensing
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Copyright
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Education and training (website, workshops, class sessions)
Copyright queries and permissions from RU units and individuals
Copyright assessment for digital projects
Policies (Special Collections, IJS, digitization, new media services, data curation, RU
videotaping in the classroom, RU open access policy)
Current awareness and update sessions (national and international landscape, proposed
legislation, international ILL)
Scholarly communication issues (HathiTrust membership, open access)
National efforts (RFI on open access)
Contact with University Counsel
Work with SCI intern
Collaboration with other RU units
Next up: enhanced website on copyright education
Licensing and contracts
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Drafting contracts for digital initiatives
Deed of gift
Release forms for publicity rights
Next up: license review with focus on ILL
Questions?