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Page history last edited by PBworks 16 years, 1 month ago

Student Survey and Focus Groups Planning 

 

Here are the links to the Rochester and Minnesota user studies:

 

The Rochester study used the following methodologies (among others - I am only listing the ones focused on students):

  • Student survey at reference desks:  asked basic questions of students who came to reference desks for help with research papers, to gather information about their motivation to come to the desk and their expected outcomes.
  • Student survey outside the library:  Non-librarians (a graduate student and the anthropologist) conducted surveys by approaching and interviewing students in the food court at the student union and at the main computer lab.
  • Using flip charts to ask about facilities:  placed flip charts and markers in public areas of the libraries with questions at the top like "Why do you like to come here?"  "What is missing?"
  • Design Workshops:  Two varieties, one which gave students a lot of supplies and told them they could design a brand new library however they wanted, a fantasy perfect library that they would love to go to a lot.  Second one focused on furniture layout in the current building, giving them a set of plans with furniture cutouts they could move around to redesign the layout of the current space.
  • Web Design Workshops:  asking students to help redesign the website, consisting of four activities.  (1) a questionnaire to help librarians understand the participants' view of themselves and their relationship with the library (2) a warm-up exercise (3) a brainstorming session (4) the main exercise, which was either to design a brand new library page from scratch (without reference to the current page), or to review the current page and design an ideal page based on the model of the current page.
  • Photo Survey:  Gave students disposable cameras to take a series of photographs and then interviewed them about their pictures.  The list of photo requests included things like:  (1) the computer you use in the library (2) all the stuff you take to class (3) something that you would call "high tech" (4) something you've noticed that you think others don't notice (5) your favorite place to study (6) the things you always carry with you. etc.
  • Mapping Diaries:  asked students to record on a map all the places on campus they went during a particular day and how much time they spent there.

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