Planning a New Library Building: The Critical Role of Data
Liberty University’s new main library is scheduled to open in 2013-14, following years of assessment, planning, and construction. Design of the building’s spaces and services relied on analysis of a...
View ArticlePlanning and the Future of the Academic Library: An Annotated Bibliography
Academic libraries have changed significantly in recent years. At least to some extent, their evolution has been the product of planning rather than passive acceptance of, or reactive response to,...
View ArticleAssessment in Academic Libraries
Academic library assessment has a rich history, its roots being traceable to a time when today’s information technologies were beyond the realm of imagination. The field has developed at an...
View ArticleCo-creating the Future: Working with Groups to Assess, Plan, and Innovate
Evolving conditions require organizations to change. Organizational leaders must engage with stakeholders to co-create their shared future; in many cases, this involves working with groups of people....
View ArticleThe RP Church and the 1918 Pandemic Over a century later, congregations are...
Quarantine. Wearing a mask. Keeping safer at home. Pandemic. No public worship. Closing and reopening. Many of us think of these far more often than we did a year ago, since we have never experienced...
View Article“Can you see my screen?”: Utilizing Virtual Appointments for Remote Research...
This poster will show how one academic library employed virtual research appointments as part of the library’s response to COVID-19. Specific data points highlight student demographics, number of...
View ArticleRevisiting Strategy in a Time of Crisis
The season of upheaval brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic is a critical occasion for libraries to revisit their organizational strategies. Strategy includes two complementary dimensions: alignment...
View ArticleSix Dimensions: Evaluating and Planning Your Assessment Portfolio
Organizations benefit from using a wide range of assessments to create, sustain, and improve their services. The Six Dimensions tool calls for classifying assessments on scales that are described by...
View ArticleSharing with the World: Publishing at Liberty
In this workshop, we will show faculty why students should submit their electronic theses and dissertations (ETDs) to Scholar's Crossing (the institutional repository of Liberty University),...
View ArticleChristianity and Libraries: A “Conversation” with ChatGPT
This essay recounts the author’s interaction with the artificial intelligence tool known as ChatGPT. The subject of the exchange was the relationship between Christianity and libraries, on which the...
View ArticlePlanning and the Future of the Academic Library: An Annotated Bibliography
Academic libraries have changed significantly in recent years. At least to some extent, their evolution has been the product of planning rather than passive acceptance of, or reactive response to,...
View ArticleAssessment in Academic Libraries
Academic library assessment has a rich history, its roots being traceable to a time when today’s information technologies were beyond the realm of imagination. The field has developed at an...
View ArticleCo-creating the Future: Working with Groups to Assess, Plan, and Innovate
Evolving conditions require organizations to change. Organizational leaders must engage with stakeholders to co-create their shared future; in many cases, this involves working with groups of people....
View ArticleThe RP Church and the 1918 Pandemic Over a century later, congregations are...
Quarantine. Wearing a mask. Keeping safer at home. Pandemic. No public worship. Closing and reopening. Many of us think of these far more often than we did a year ago, since we have never experienced...
View Article“Can you see my screen?”: Utilizing Virtual Appointments for Remote Research...
This poster will show how one academic library employed virtual research appointments as part of the library’s response to COVID-19. Specific data points highlight student demographics, number of...
View ArticleRevisiting Strategy in a Time of Crisis
The season of upheaval brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic is a critical occasion for libraries to revisit their organizational strategies. Strategy includes two complementary dimensions: alignment...
View ArticleCultivating Information Literacy Instruction Practices in a Virtual Environment
• Introduce the Information Ecology at Liberty University • Changes to Reference Desk • Implementation of Virtual Research Consultations • Hybrid Classroom Experiences • Teaching Inquiry 101 Virtually...
View ArticleSix Dimensions: Evaluating and Planning Your Assessment Portfolio
Organizations benefit from using a wide range of assessments to create, sustain, and improve their services. The Six Dimensions tool calls for classifying assessments on scales that are described by...
View ArticleSharing with the World: Publishing at Liberty
In this workshop, we will show faculty why students should submit their electronic theses and dissertations (ETDs) to Scholar's Crossing (the institutional repository of Liberty University),...
View ArticleDid the COVID-19 Pandemic Reshape Nonprofit Service Delivery?
This study employed mixed methods (explanatory sequential design) to assess and describe service delivery changes that emerged among public charities in the Virginia piedmont region due to the...
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