choose your own research adventure - university of utah
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Choose Your Own Research Adventure: Developing a Technical Services Based Research Project
Utah Library Association Annual Conference
May 18, 2017
Liz WoolcottHead of Cataloging and Metadata [email protected] @lizwoolcott
Jeremy MynttiHead of Digital Library Services
[email protected] @jmyntti
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Once upon a time….
How to Create a Research
Project
What Did We Find?
I wonder what other libraries do...
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Research ProjectHOw to Create a
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Where should we Start?
Identify a question
Develop survey
Analyze data
Share results
Lessons learned
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Identify Question
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Identify
1.Research study should:
a. Ask a question
b. Have a target population
c. Measure something or test a hypothesis
d. Be beneficial or have an impact
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Identify
1. For example, the cataloging survey:
a. Ask a question
i. What are the structures of current cataloging units
and how has that changed in the last 10 years?
b. Have a target population
i. Academic library cataloging unit employees
c. Measure something or test a hypothesis
i. Measured current and past structures, staffing, work
responsibilities, faculty status, library size,
organizational structure, etc.
d. Be beneficial or have an impact
i. Outlined the landscape of cataloging units in
academic libraries and demonstrated change over time
#catalogingunits
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Identify
1.How do I start
developing a
research question?
a.Talk to colleagues
b.Read the current
literature
c.Examine frustrations
or questions arising
from your own work
d.Look at the larger
professional patterns
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Where Next?
Identify a question
Develop survey
Analyze data
Share results
Lessons learned
What Did You Find?
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Develop Survey
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The SurveyWhen : March and April 2016
Who : Academic library
employees with knowledge of
the structure/organization
of cataloging unit
Where : No geographic
boundary set intentionally
(although questions were US-
centric)
What : Questions asked about the following• Institution: type and size• Library size: staff, budget, collection
• Cataloging staff, hierarchy, faculty status
• Cataloging tasks, outsourced tasks
• Future plans for restructuring, task allocation, skills development
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Survey
• Develop questions and definitions for terms
• Create logical order
• Test for functionality
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Qualtrics
Why did we use Qualtrics?
• Robust survey software
• Skip logic
• If/then
• Variety of question types
• Multiple choice
• Write-in
• Sliders
• Matrices
• Drag and drop
• Ranking
• Heat Maps/Hot Spots
• Statistical Analysis
• Visualizations
• Cross tabulations
• Distribution control
• Data export
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Additional Options
What other survey
options are there?
• Survey Monkey
• Google Forms
• Typeform
• Zoho Survey
• Survey Gizmo
• Survey Plant
What non-survey methods
can I use?
• Focus Groups
• Interviews
• Case studies
• Content Analysis
• Experiments
• Meta-analysis
• Observational Study
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IRB Approval
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Distribute Survey
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Where Next?
Identify a question
Develop survey
Analyze data
Share results
Lessons learned
What Did You Find?
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Analyze Data
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Analysis Tools
1.Data Cleanup and
Normalization:a.Excel
b.Google Sheets
c.OpenRefine
2. Data Analysisa.Qualtrics
b.Excel
c.Google Sheets
d.OpenRefine
3. Data Visualizationa.Qualtrics
b.Excel
c.Google Sheets
d.Visme
e.Tableau
f.Wordle
g.Wordclouds
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Analyze
Multiple choice results
Open ended questions
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Analyze
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Where Next?
Identify a question
Develop survey
Analyze data
Share results
Lessons learned
What Did You Find?
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Share Results
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Social Media
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Presentations
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Where Next?
Identify a question
Develop survey
Analyze data
Share results
Lessons learned
What Did You Find?
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Lessons Learned
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Lessons Learned
Test and retest survey before
sending out
No need to for extended open
period
Clarify who should answer survey
Think about how you analyze
questions before you include
it
Use open ended questions
sparingly
Limit questions
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Where Next?
Identify a question
Develop survey
Analyze data
Share results
Lessons learned
What Did You Find?
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Find?What Did you
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Where Should We Start?
Types of responses
Tools used
Tasks completed
Titles of units and people
Structures of units
Future plans
Questions?
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Types
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Survey response rate
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Respondent demographics
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Type of Academic Institution
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Unexpected outcomes
Fewer normal distributions
More bimodal distributions
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Where Next?
Types of responses
Tools used
Tasks completed
Titles of units and people
Structures of units
Future plans
Questions?
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Tools
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Tools
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Where Next?
Types of responses
Tools used
Tasks completed
Titles of units and people
Structures of units
Future plans
Questions?
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Tasks
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Tasks Completedhttps://goo.gl/48IkJg
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Individual Tasks
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Future Skills for Catalogers
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Where Next?
Types of responses
Tools used
Tasks completed
Titles of units and people
Structures of units
Future plans
Questions?
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Titles
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Cataloging Unit Name
Technical Services 79
Cataloging 76
Cataloging and Metadata Services 14
Metadata Services 12
Cataloging and Metadata 8
Metadata 7
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Professional Cataloger Titles
Catalog/Cataloging Librarian 54
Metadata Librarian 29
Head of Cataloging and Metadata
Services
9
Head of Cataloging 8
Head of Technical Services 8
Electronic Resources Librarian 7
Technical Services Librarian 7
Cataloger 6
Cataloging and Metadata Librarian 6
Systems Librarian 6
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Where Next?
Types of responses
Tools used
Tasks completed
Titles of units and people
Structures of units
Future plans
Questions?
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Structures
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Current structures
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FTE Cataloging Department
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Broad Trends
• Structures and organizational hierarchies are in flux
• Three main shifts:• Grouping all tech services into single reporting unit
• Splitting cataloging units into other library units, usually:
• Electronic resources
• Acquisitions
• Collection Development
• Special Collections/Archives
• Digital Initiatives
• Developing team models based on skill sets
• Shifting structures result of increased demand for e-
resources and digital collections
• Cataloging staffing shifts = Loss of positions outright or
refocus of staff
• Increasing emphasis placed on non-faculty employees
• Heavy reliance on outsourcing
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Where Next?
Types of responses
Tools used
Tasks completed
Titles of units and people
Structures of units
Future plans
Questions?
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Future Plans
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Future Plans
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Where Next?
Types of responses
Tools used
Tasks completed
Titles of units and people
Structures of units
Future plans
Questions?
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Questions?
Utah Library Association Annual Conference
May 18, 2017
Liz WoolcottHead of Cataloging and Metadata [email protected] @lizwoolcott
Jeremy MynttiHead of Digital Library Services
[email protected] @jmyntti