Library Marketing on a Small Liberal Arts Campus: Assessing Communication Preferences

As part of a newly created library marketing plan, librarians at the College of Wooster undertook a study of the communication preferences of students, faculty, and staff in early 2015. The results of the survey helped to develop a comprehensive picture of what library resources and services these constituencies are interested in learning about, as well as when, where, and how they prefer to learn about them. This article describes the development, distribution, results, and analysis of the survey, and highlights the importance of campus-specific library marketing practices

Images of women in sport and physical education part 2: Building and integrating a digital exhibit site into the classroom

This article highlights key points in the process of collaboration, creation, and assessment of a digital exhibit that tells the story of a larger digital collection, and its use in project-based assignments for a course on women’s sporting experiences. The exhibit is intended to be both a classroom research tool and a model of digital scholarship. Collaborators include a faculty member, librarians, a digital initiative coordinator, an educational technologist, student assistants, and students in the class. The article also explores the challenges and rewards of engaging students in digital scholarship

Images of Women in Sport and Physical Education: Creating and Integrating a Digital Collection into the Classroom

This article will highlight key points in the process of collaboration, creation, and assessment of a digital collection intended to be used initially as a classroom tool, in addition to being a model of digital scholarship that can be used for research from anywhere in the world. This project originated from a class assignment for a course in Physical Education. Collaborators include a faculty member, two librarians, digital scholarship staff, a digital initiative coordinator, and student assistants