Duke University Libraries has made it easier for all staff to lead or participate in web assessment activities with the goal of improving our on-line presence and service to our patrons. Using tools like Google Analytics and a mobile usability lab, the Libraries have made it possible for every staff member to collect and analyze both quantitative and qualitative data about our web presence. The end result is a greater shared understanding of how our users interact (or not) with our interfaces and a more cohesive approach to responding to patron needs regarding our website.

One of Me, 500 of Them
Using Streaming Video for Curriculum and Assignment Based Bibliographic Instruction
Anne Langley, Librarian and Adjunct Professor for Chemistry, Duke
Presentation

The collaboration between faculty and librarian: use Camtasia to make curriculum-based BI videos for large classes. An overview of creating learning objectives, based on input from the faculty, TAs, and librarian; assignment creation; the nuts and bolts of story-boarding and scripting the 30min video; recording the video; dissemination of the video; and the post-assignment assessment and future plans. A discussion of the differences between real-time teaching and recorded sessions; the capabilities of streaming video instruction; the ability of a single librarian to significantly scale-up the number of sessions offered; and the importance of feed-back, assessment and revision to the process.
 

In June 2010, the State Library of North Carolina awarded a planning grant to the TRLN partner libraries to develop a collaborative large-scale digitization project for manuscript collections related to the African American experience in North Carolina in the middle of the 20th century. Our collections in this area are rich, and the project will give us an opportunity to create collaborative policies and workflows to bring them online, discoverable and accessible to the world outside our reading rooms. This program will briefly address the elements of the planning grant - including extensive consultation with library staff and scholars on such areas as content selection, rights, and production capacity. Andre Vann will speak to the research value of the selected materials to the study of African American History - highlighting some of the treasures we hold and the stories they tell. Finally, we will solicit insight and input from the audience, in small group discussions focused on areas of interest in this multi-faceted project.
 

Recent advances in mobile computing have created enormous opportunities for libraries to provide innovative user experiences with library services and collections. New mobile device platforms include technologies that enable the creation of location-aware services that utilize the user's current location to enhance information discovery or content filtering. This presentation will focus on the application of these technologies to archives and special collections, using the recently developed NCSU Libraries WolfWalk project as a case study. We will examine the opportunities and challenges of building location-aware digital collections in the near term, and highlight possible future directions.