Library Assessment Committee
Library Assessment Committee is to provide a forum for identifying assessment models, research strategies, and identify techniques for assessing effective use of library programs, collections and services. it was founded in April 2015, as a subordinate of Library Affair Committee (LAC) at the XJTLU Library.
I. Duties & Responsibilities
- Conduct library annual survey and produce the report regularly to give all functional teams and library management a useful insight to whether the performance are better or worse than average in world-wide academic libraries
- Recommend ways that measurement and evaluation can be integrated into existing library management practices
- Provide advice and expertise regarding quantitative and qualitative data collection to library teams in assessment activities
- Develop an assessment plan, including a sustained assessment cycle/schedule and recommend this plan to the Library Management Group, and coordinates implementation.
II. Assessment Project
XJTLU Library User Survey
To assess library service quality, Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University (XJTLU) Library conducted the Library User Survey every year. Core questions of the survey covered three service dimensions of service quality: Library as Place; Library Collections and Resource Access; and Library Academic Support Services. For each dimension, respondents were asked to indicate their using habit, their desired service level and their perceived service level provided by the Library.
XJTLU Digital Resources Usage Report
Usage statistics are influential in deciding if a resource should be reviewed and flagged for possible cancellation, if more training is necessary or if the number of concurrent users should be increased or decreased. This report is produced with the intention of presenting the landscape of XJTLU Digital Library and its usage in current year and previous years