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Conducting a User Needs Assessment through the Consortia: Pooling Resources to Examine Student and Faculty Habits

Year: 2023

Type: article

Abstract: From 2016 to 2020, ten smaller schools in one regional library consortium participated in a user needs assessment project. This article documents the process for implementing a collaborative user needs assessment by utilizing the shared interest and enthusiasm of a team of librarians to create a consortial toolkit. The toolkit supplied direction and leverage to conduct ethnographic research at consortial schools while providing clarity and consistency for testing across multiple sites.

Source: College & Research Libraries

DOI: 10.5860/crl.84.1.69

Authors: Ruth Szpunar, Eric Bradley

Institutions: Private Academic Library Network of Indiana, Inc. (PALNI), Goshen College

Language: English

Topic: Library Science and Information Literacy

Subfield: Library and Information Sciences

Field: Social Sciences

Domain: Social Sciences

SDGs: Quality education, Partnerships for the goals

Open Access status: diamond

OpenAlex ID: W4313829696

FWCI: 0.785

Cites: 15

Cited by: 1

Related to: 10