I have reviewed the goals and projects with Julia. After we have talked and I knew where she wanted the projects to go here are my notes for the past couple of days.
The road thus far...
Review of Goals:
1)Give my time and experience to the Library in order to help during a time of financial and staffing hardship.
I have it from Julia that I have helped her to get to where she wanted to be at this time of year. She did not and has not had anyone that was able to work through the projects that I have done this summer. They have been on her desk and my work with them has made it possible to move with the changes that are coming to the campus this year.
I have also been able to help or take on tasks that she needed done, but did not have the time to do. I have used my experience in my course work and jobs to help Julia with instruction for the Fall. I have also been able to help with finding problems and brainstorming fixes (strategies) for these projects. I have gotten them to the point where someone or a team can come in and implement the changes or could design the change. I will go into more detail as I talk about the projects below.
Goal 1: Met!
2)Improve on professional experience.
I have had to work closely with Julia, Charlotte, and a few other people on the projects that I have been working on this summer. I have been able to improve on my team work skills and work with people that I know and people that I have never worked with before. I have been able to communicate my ideas and discuss other ideas with all of them.
I have been able to juggle and manage about five projects (with many other components) throughout the summer. I know that I could do that because of juggling school work and some other project in other jobs. But doing it this summer, with hardly any supervision, made it different. I was able to make my own deadlines and work out times when I would work on them. I was able to set up meetings to give my ideas and what I had been working on. I was able to take responsibility for getting them to the point that Julia needed them to get to. I also learned how to let go of projects and when I should let them go. I think I have a better grasp on dealing with projects and where I can get them to on my own now.
I have been able to take my skills and experience, and use them to help out a particular department of the library. While doing so, I have learned more about instruction, a department that did not know as much about until now. Especially while talking to Julia and doing the readings. I know I can take that experience of learning and how to learn and use it in any department of the library where I end up working in the future (even if I do not have a plan of where).
I have added to my experience of working in different environments and with different people (work styles). I have enjoyed working with the fluid style that Julia has. I hope I can get to work with people like her in the future. I have gotten a better perspective on what kind of environment and people I want to work with in the future.
Goal 2: Met!
Review of Projects:
1. BANC/RPS
I have been able to take the data and put them in forms (graphs) so that others will understand them. I have analyzed the data, identified problems (gaps in student understanding) that instruction can fix, and brainstormed the strategies and technology that can be used to address them. Julia and I have identified clicker technology which will be used in instruction. I am going to implement a part of it and have it read for Aug. 19th and her meeting with the faculty.
My work with the RPS data has given Anne (the director) the knowledge and courage to get the ball rolling with taking the RPS survey out to the whole college. It will be included as a general studies pre- and post- test for the Fall. It will be required and there will be more data for the years to come. Before, it only had 6% take it and it was not being pushed by hardly anyone. Now, the importance and problems of what the students are not learning is understood by the people that can get it pushed.
The BANC tutorial revision did and did not happen. I was able to help Julia with ideas for changing questions and rethinking sections. However, a change in the ILS this summer prevented us from taking the ideas and making a deliverable redesign. Otherwise, Julia can take the information and step forward with it in the future.
Task 1: Met!
2. Library Website/Tour
Charlotte and I have been successful in coming up with a paper prototype that can be taken to the web team and made into an online version. Due to staffing and time, it may not happen until the Fall, but the design is there. We also have made a statement of purpose and flow chart to go along with the prototype and notes. Charlotte and Julia will be able to explain the vision to the web team based on this information. Charlotte and I could also write an article in the future if we get the time. We found that there is little publish on making online tours for libraries.
To make the new tour (BOLT), we were able to take the old tour, as well as the literature and other library tours, to design ours. I was able to use my course work to plan the design and work in collaboration with someone that I have never worked with before. I was also able to take a skill that is personal and use it to take pictures in a creative way for the library website and the tour.
Julia and I have been looking at the layout and policies for the (library) website redesign from the web team. We have been looking into how the website should look. I have been able to bring my course work into the discussion in order to explain the process and the techniques for continuing the design with the layout in mind. I plan to have a working plan and process ready for Julia at the end of my internship so that she can lead the meetings for the redesign of the library website in the Fall.
Task 2: Almost Complete!
3. Cloud Computing
I was able to take on this task with Julia. We trouble-shooted and discussed what the users of the library computers needed to be able to do with them. This came on the heals of an upgrade to the library computers. Some new computers were placed in the library for testing. More are coming and we wanted to make sure the image was right for our users. The new computers and their image will be used in the library as a test for when they replace other computers around the campus.
I was able to take my technical background and my course work for this task. I was able to articulate and discuss what the users might want and translate what can be done with the technology. I was also able to sit in on the meeting discussing the changes that needed to be made to the image. I was able to help translate what the library wanted and what could be done with the technology.
Task 3: Met!
4. AIKCU Conference
Due to staffing shortage, I was able to take Julia's place at the AIKCU conference. I was able to build on my professional experience by going to another professional conference where I learned about how libraries and IT people are working together to help students at their colleges. It was great to take some of the ideas, like some web 2.0 widgets, and bring them back to Julia. I was also able to have a great discussion with her about the communication and where she sees the interaction among IT people, librarians, and faculty going (has been).
Task 4: Met!
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