Location
Poster Session
Start Date
11-10-2019 3:30 PM
End Date
11-10-2019 5:00 PM
Type of Work
Poster
Description
OBJECTIVE The Library works with campus and community partners in order to make a positive impact on students, campus, and community. This poster describes a year of student events and engagement, the challenges and insights from those events, and the collective impact they have had on meeting student needs, increasing library visibility on campus, and enhancing communications between students and the library.
METHODS Needs assessment survey was conducted in Fall 2018 to measure what students would most like from the Library. Adjacently, the Library executed a number of events at varying times of year to engage the students such as Cookies & Cram, Pi Day, Fuel Your Brain for Finals, and Fridays in the Park.
RESULTS These Library events reached 675 students (approximately 23% of student body). The data from the student satisfaction survey indicated that the Library is meeting student needs in engagement and activity. This indication is reiterated by students’ positive feedback after every event.
CONCLUSIONS This year, student engagement was a success. Students indicated being positively impacted by the events coordinated by the Library. The Library intends to continue to meet student needs, increase library visibility on campus, and enhance communication between the library and students. In the future, consideration will be taken towards overlapping schedules of students.
Squaring the Circle Through Outreach: Building Student Engagement from Scratch
Poster Session
OBJECTIVE The Library works with campus and community partners in order to make a positive impact on students, campus, and community. This poster describes a year of student events and engagement, the challenges and insights from those events, and the collective impact they have had on meeting student needs, increasing library visibility on campus, and enhancing communications between students and the library.
METHODS Needs assessment survey was conducted in Fall 2018 to measure what students would most like from the Library. Adjacently, the Library executed a number of events at varying times of year to engage the students such as Cookies & Cram, Pi Day, Fuel Your Brain for Finals, and Fridays in the Park.
RESULTS These Library events reached 675 students (approximately 23% of student body). The data from the student satisfaction survey indicated that the Library is meeting student needs in engagement and activity. This indication is reiterated by students’ positive feedback after every event.
CONCLUSIONS This year, student engagement was a success. Students indicated being positively impacted by the events coordinated by the Library. The Library intends to continue to meet student needs, increase library visibility on campus, and enhance communication between the library and students. In the future, consideration will be taken towards overlapping schedules of students.