We’re All In This Together. Using Systems Thinking and Data Visualization to Influence the Ordering Habits of Liaisons

Liaison work is a secondary role for most of the librarians at the William H. Hannon Library at Loyola Marymount University, and although each librarian takes this responsibility seriously, the task of ordering books is often one that gets put off throughout the busy Fall semester. Although the library\u27s approval plan keeps current materials across all subject areas coming in a relatively steady stream throughout the year, over 50% of our books still come in through title-by-title liaison selection. Liaison procrastination historically resulted in a deluge of book orders - often triggered by increasingly insistent reminders from the acquisitions and collection development team – at the end of the fiscal year. In FY2016, the Collection Development Librarian undertook an effort to use visual data related to historical and current ordering patterns to engage liaisons with selection activities throughout the entire academic year, with the hope of both evening out the number of books across disciplines that come in the library month-to-month, and to open up the annual March bottleneck caused in acquisitions, collection development, cataloging, and collection management by liaisons expending their funds at the last minute. Attendees engaging with this poster at the Library Assessment Conference learned about the tools used to educate and inform liaisons about the often invisible work that takes place after they place an order, the system of intermediate deadlines established and data-sharing with liaisons, and the results of this effort across three calendar years. They left with ideas about how to connect liaisons at their own institutions with the often invisible work of acquisitions through training, communication, and compelling data-sharing

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Faculty Pub Night at the William H. Hannon Library: Highlighting Faculty Works Through Creative Programming

Creative, interdisciplinary partnership and collaboration with university faculty is an essential function of every academic library, whether for course design and integration of information literacy in the curriculum, strategically building the library collections, or designing programming for the community. Over the past six years at the William H. Hannon Library at Loyola Marymount University (LMU), a program created to highlight and promote faculty publications and creative works has evolved into a keystone of our annual programming lineup. The series, called Faculty Pub Night, provides LMU faculty with the opportunity to share their work with students, university staff, other faculty members, and members of the broader community in an informal, collegial setting outside of the classroom, and outside of their academic units. Faculty Pub Night was originally designed to highlight new faculty publications, focusing primarily on monographs. But as the program’s popularity spread and more faculty across campus gained awareness and interest in the series, we responded to the request to expand the scope to include creative works, projects, and research in the sciences where publication in monographs is less likely. Each Faculty Pub Night has the potential to educate about the research and publication or creative process, build collegial and interdisciplinary relationships across campus, showcase our faculty research and creative work to the community, and expand the boundaries of traditional academic programming in the library. In this article, the authors will share the development and evolution of the series, discuss promotion and assessment, identify challenges and successes, and hopefully inspire readers to consider how a program celebrating faculty research and creative works might fit within their own institutions

Screaming into the Ether: Assessing E-Resources Outreach through Digital Touchpoints

What is the impact of social media, targeted email, and other intentional promotional efforts on e-resource usage? Is there a correlation between e-resources marketing and the use of those resources? What data can we gather, what can we learn, and how can this be used to improve our communications with faculty and outreach via social media and digital spaces?This presentation will explore the findings from the first year of a multi-year study on marketing e-resources at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles. Librarians at the William H. Hannon Library examined the usage of specific e-resources over the course of the 2016-2017 academic year, and overlaid the usage with a timeline of physical and digital promotions for the same e-resources within the communications cycle, including social media outreach, internal and external email marketing, library instruction, and LibGuides. The presenters will discuss their findings and provide step-by-step instructions for attendees who wish to replicate the process at their home institutions. The presenters will also offer timely recommendations for improving e-resources outreach based on their combined experiences as Collection Development and Outreach librarians, respectively

Bringing Underserved Staff Online @ LMU

One tangible benefit of working at a university is the number of opportunities for continuing education. At LMU, these resources abound for white-­‐collar, professional staff. But results from a 2010 survey initiated by the library and ITS indicated that the majority of respondents from LMU Facilities employees were unaware that library and technology workshops (which take place year-­round) were offered at all. Through grassroots efforts, Raymundo Andrade and Jamie Hazlitt opened the lines of communication with facilities administration, offered basic technology and English language training opportunities for service staff, and tangibly improved the technology skills and enriched the lives of staff members from LMU facilities department through a series of bilingual workshops

Sobre el ingenio y el humor.

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