In 2016, Marian University’s library began collecting data on how patrons utilized our building. We conducted student surveys, held focus groups, and collected spatial data using Suma, an open-source assessment toolkit. In...
Librarianship is becoming more complex with a broader range of services to support with little or no new people to take on these additional roles. The group of libraries in the Private Academic Library Network of Indiana...
Marian University has a small but mighty staff that thrives on the power of our student workers. In order to successfully manage them, we created an online space in our LMS and started to incorporate project management...
Highlighting a teaching collaboration between Nursing and Library. Using health/research cases, this team classroom activity and “lightning presentation” allows students to engage and appraise unfamiliar research papers, using...
During the spring semester, we designed faculty-only workshops each week that they could pop-in for instruction on library resources, research or citation support, and at least one freebie resource. These included...