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May
22
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In a recent blog post, evaluator Stephanie Evergreen suggested that people no longer ask for power point slides at the end of a presentation (Stop Asking if the Slides are Available). Her point is that the slides should support the speaker and be fairly useless on their own. If the audience needs a reminder of… Read More »
Posted in: Data Visualization
May
13
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The OERC will do its part in keeping Austin weird this week at the 2015 Medical Library Association conference. If you happen to be around, stop by our presentations on Sunday (5/17) afternoon and say hi. First up, Cindy Olney and other members of the !VIVA! Peer Tutor Project Team the will be exhibiting their… Read More »
Posted in: Blog
May
08
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Have you ever wanted to be able to use mapping for your outreach needs, but thought that making maps would be too expensive, time-consuming, or just too difficult? The National Library of Medicine has a blog called Community Health Maps: Information on Low Cost Mapping Tools for Community-based Organizations, with the goal of facilitating the… Read More »
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May
01
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Recently, the Association of Research Libraries email discussion list had an enthusiastic discussion about guerrilla assessment techniques. These are low-cost, unconventional data collection methods that gather timely responses from library users. I thought I would share some of the favored methods from this discussion. Graffiti walls seemed to be the most popular guerrilla method discussed in this group. Users… Read More »
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Apr
24
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You’ve been collecting great data for your library, and now you have to figure out how to use it to convince someone of something, for example how great your library is. Part of the trick is turning that data into a presentation that your stakeholders understand – especially if you are not there to explain… Read More »
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