Browsing by Author "Brown, Christine"

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    Collecting & Using Quantitative and Qualitative Data to Align Resources for Instruction & Research Support
    (International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA), 2023-09-07) Brown, Christine
    Academic librarians spend considerable time and effort planning and delivering instruction/presentations and providing research consultations on their campuses. In Canada, the number of presentations to groups reported in the Canadian Association of Research Libraries (CARL) Statistics (2018-2019)1 ranges from 197 sessions to 2,326 sessions delivered to 8,984 to 68,644 participants, respectively. The provision of research consultations is a standard service provided by academic librarians but not currently reported to CARL. In the fiscal year 2021-2022, librarians at my Library (University of Alberta) delivered 1,428 research consultations (mostly one-to-one interactions) to undergraduates, graduate students, and faculty members. This work is significant in meeting curricular and research needs across campus. However, in times of financial crisis, there are many demands on library staffing resources to meet well-identified long-standing services and potential new initiatives. Effective collection, gathering, and use of statistics and other evaluative tools can help managers make effective decisions and advocate for additional resources. Data describing impact can also highlight your impact on key stakeholders who can be potential advocates to support requests for resource investment. In the session, I will highlight several tools libraries can use to describe, highlight, evaluate, and advocate for resource allocation to support teaching and research consultations. I contextualize the presentation by centering it around an exercise undertaken in the Faculty Engagement Unit for the Social Sciences & Humanities at the University of Alberta and projects underway to re-design basic information literacy instruction and evaluate the research consultation from the librarian and user perspectives. A presentation at the "Demystifying Statistics and Evaluation in Libraries" Satellite Meeting, organised by the Statistics and Evaluation Section and held at the University of Utrecht in Utrecht, The Netherlands from 17–18 August 2023.
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    Expressions of student life during Covid: A librarian and social worker collboration
    (International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA), 2022-10-25) Brown, Christine; Carpan, Carolyn; Cuyler, Katie; Feist, Debbie; Lacroix, Denis; Bucalo, Brianna; Ritz, Heather; Sampson, Tiffany; Johnston, Lucinda
    The poster describes a grant-funded project designed to foster connections with students coping with the mental health challenges of student life during the COVID-19 pandemic at the University of Alberta, located in Edmonton, Canada. Academic librarians teamed up with social workers from University Wellness Supports to deliver online workshops where students could receive encouragement and support to creatively express their student experience of Covid creatively in whatever artistic medium they wished. In addition to workshops, the team distributed 25 art kits to students, and received submissions of artistic expressions for publication in a print and electronic book. Eleven creative works, consisting of drawings, paintings, digital art, collage, poetry, and music, will serve as a permanent artifact of the experience of student life during the COVID-19 pandemic. The book's creative content from cover to cover, including its design, is a direct result of student work and is student-owned through a creative commons CC-BY licence. The project team collaborated with colleagues from University Communications, Library Publishing, and a student graphic designer to complete the book and release it to the University community.