Each survey was analyzed and reported on individually by the Research and Assessment Librarian. Students that participated in Online and Hybrid Courses with an embedded librarian were emailed a survey that pertained to the librarian embedded in their course. The responses were gathered through a LibSurvey, which is a service provided by SpringShare. The Research and Assessment Librarian coded the responses to the open-ended questions and calculated the percentage of responses to the multiple choice questions. Recommendations were made based on the feedback provided directly by the student participants in the courses.
Once these reports were complete, the Research and Assessment Librarian, along with other research librarians, compared the two reports to look for trends in responses.
In the Academic Year 2011-2012, 76 courses participated in the Online Course Librarian Program. This number rose in the 2014-2015 Academic Year when 87 courses participated. The 14% rise in participants indicates that the program is growing each year.
The number of respondents to the survey fell from AY 2012 to AY 2015 from 140 to 103 students that completed the survey. Because of this fall in the number of students that completed the survey, the library should talk to professors about how to encourage students to complete the feedback.
The Melvin J Zahnow Library is reaching students through a multitude of platforms in an effort to improve student research skills. One of the ways that librarians are reaching students is by becoming embedded into Online and Hybrid Courses that SVSU offers to students. This aligns with the following goals in the SVSU Strategic Plan under Academic Improvement:
Zahnow Library strives to meet each of these goals in the Online Course Librarian program. In this program, librarians are embedded into an online course, however each course is unique. In these courses the librarians offer tutorials, in-person instruction, emails of availability, handouts and much more!
This report compares two surveys conducted during the Academic Year 2011-2012 and the Academic Year 2014-2015. The purpose of this report is to look for trends throughout the years in student responses to the surveys in order to improve both the survey, future assessments of this service and the Online Course Librarian service itself.
