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Unlike instructional faculty who teach regular courses, I do not have a formal structure to evaluate my teaching methods, such as formal observations or student evaluations. There are other metrics that I use to evaluate the effectiveness of my position as a librarian at City Tech. One of these metrics is Interlibrary Loan statistics, but this quantitative metric only tells a small piece of the story.
Through reference desk interactions or instruction sessions, students do often express their thanks for your help with their research or assignment. Likewise, students who use Interlibrary Loan (especially for the first time) are often very appreciative of being able to acquire these materials and express that. Similarly, in helping faculty with their research, I am often guiding them through the same information literacy learning that I do with students but at a different level, and I am grateful to be able to receive feedback through this process. I have used such feedback from students and faculty alike to make changes to our policies and procedures—one small example is through adding an option to select print or ebook when placing an Interlibrary Loan request for a book.
Peer Assessment of Teaching:
Email from Chemistry Instruction
Interlibrary Loan (ILL) Emails/Feedback
(Note: these emails have been redacted to protect patron privacy)
ILL Borrowing Email 1
ILL Borrowing Email 2
ILL Borrowing Email 3
ILL Borrowing Email 4
ILL Lending Feedback
Student Assessment of Teaching:
Student Feedback on Gender & Sexuality Studies LibGuide – Prof. Junior Tidal conducted usability studies on our LibGuide research guides a few years back. Based on feedback from students who found the initial Gender & Sexuality Studies guide limited by primarily focusing on the library’s related online databases, I able to build a guide that is more effective and useful incorporating more of our print collection (which is even more robust now with funding from the LGBTIA+ Consortium grant) as well as add local queer community resources to think about the needs of students beyond our collection.
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