Wilcox Library Planning Documents
Assessment
Wilcox Library conducts annual outcomes based assessment activities and collects input and output statistics throughout the academic year to gather evidence of how we are or are not fulfilling our mission. Each year we review the data and feedback we received and plan our next year’s activities, budget allocation, and services accordingly. We will also correct and improve any deficiencies we uncover.
Measures:
Association of College and Research Libraries:
Standards for Libraries in Higher Education
Guidelines for Distance Learning Library Services
Information Literacy Competency Standards for Higher Education
Iowa Private Academic Libraries Group Annual Statistics for peer comparison and benchmarking
User Satisfaction Survey
Bibliographic Citation Analysis
Poster Presentation Evaluation
Focus and directed discussion with SGA and student groups
Building usage Assessment
RefAnalytics usage statistics
Wilcox Library provides essential service, instruction and space -
Means of gathering evidence:
Poster presentation evaluation, LibGuide usage statistics, Instruction sessions count, Bibliographic citation analysis
User Satisfaction Survey, Building usage study, Gate counts
Focus groups, RefAnalytics usage statistics
Diverse community of learners
Means of gathering evidence
Focus Groups, User Satisfaction Survey
Innovative discovery tools
Means of gathering evidence
Usage statistics, User Satisfaction Survey, Focus Groups, Website traffic
Access to collections and resources
Means of gathering evidence
User Satisfaction Survey, Focus groups, Acquisitions budget allocation, Usage statistics
Preserving and organizing materials of historic value
Mean of gathering evidence
RefAnalytics usage and presentation statistics
Building Renewal
Part of our library mission is to provide a physical space for students that, is well equipped, clean and comfortable. The library interior is beginning to show signs of age and needs to be refurbished. Most of the carpeting is fifteen to twenty years old and the building hasn’t been painted in twenty-one years. A significant short coming is we have no public restrooms that are handicapped accessible.
The Library was built in 1964 with an interior design scheme that was utilitarian, stark, and institutional. This was a common design for academic libraries of this era. Hence we can’t take the building back to the original interior design scheme that would be awful. We have decided to look at midcentury design ideas for inspiration. This would be best for a building that lacks aesthetic appeal.
We hope to be able to accomplish one to two projects per year and have the entire building redone by 2018.
Below are the list of projects and the tentative timelines for completion:
Study Room Classroom/ Cora Mattison Classroom/Quaker Room/Small Group Study Rooms
Carpet, paint and new equipment and furniture - COMPLETE
Relocation of University Archives/Woody - Chawner Archives
Paint, new flooring, shelving and historic photo display – 2012 and still in process
Lower Level Lounge and study area
Carpet, Paint new furnishings and shelf ends – 2013 and still in process
Electronic Classroom/Madeline Clark Forman Classroom
Paint and Carpet - 2014
Lower Level Public Bathrooms
Retile floor and walls, new stall door, lighting, sinks, faucets and create a handicap stall in both men’s and women’s bathroom - 2015
Foyer Gallery and Front Desk Area
Flooring, paint, hanging system and paint desk – 2016
First Floor open study area and computer area
Paint, carpet, new chairs and shelf ends – 2017
New energy efficient windows entire building - 2018