[Eril-l] Best of Core Forum: Data visualizations & dashboards: Lessons learned

Tue Jan 23 05:00:00 PST 2024

*Cross posted to multiple lists*

Best of Core Forum: Data visualizations & dashboards: Lessons learned

Date: Tuesday, February 13, 2024

All webinars are one hour in length and begin at 11 am Pacific, noon
Mountain, 1 pm Central, and 2 pm Eastern time.

Description: Like many libraries, ours has storehouses full of operations
data. However, challenges frequently arise when trying to analyze data from
across frequently siloed and proprietary data sources in a timely manner.
Available toolsets, meanwhile, leave us wishing for more — many apps handle
data from specific products or only harvest specific types of data. Other
apps are extremely expensive and/or require steep learning curves. Our goal
was to find a sustainable workflow for analyzing, then publishing our data
and visualizations in a data dashboard, so our entire library staff and
administration could reliably use the data to better plan our services and
communicate our worth with our community. In this session, we will share
the lessons learned from our dashboard project and how they could be
applied in libraries of any size. These lessons include doing an
environmental scan of all the data used in our library, and methods of
harvesting, analysis, and publishing our interdepartmental data for easy
access and comprehension. Finally, we will offer demonstrations of the data
applications we use in our workflow with pros and cons of their use.

Learning outcomes:

By the end of this webinar, the attendees will be able to:

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   Identify the variables to consider when designing a data dashboard-data
   sharing project.
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   Critically assess the strengths and weaknesses of multiple tools for
   data analysis and visualization — both those freely available and
   affordably licensed.
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   Tailor data and terminology to the various internal and external
   stakeholders in the library's community.

Who should attend?

Administrators, assessment officers, or indeed anyone who generates or
reports statistics in a library setting.

Presenter:

Rob O'Brien Withers is access services librarian at Miami University. He
has previously served as assistant to the dean and web services librarian
at Miami, as systems/technical services librarian at McDaniel College, and
in several classified positions at the University of North Carolina at
Chapel Hill. His professional interests include collection and
interpretation of library data for external audiences, circulating
non-traditional items.

Rich Wisneski works in electronic resources for Miami University. He has
worked in technical services departments for several years at various
higher education institutions. His current research interests revolve
around discoverability and end user experience, and e-resource access
assessment.

Jerry Yarnetsky is a web services librarian at Miami University of Ohio
where he focuses on user experience, information architecture, and
accessibility. He also regularly teaches a course on interaction design and
development at Miami. He's previously worked as a librarian and interim
library director at Montgomery County (Pa.) Community College and as a
journalist/editor in a previous career.

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Registration fees for webinar:  Core Member $57.67; ALA member: $71.10;
Non-member $79.00

For additional information and access to registration links, please go to
the following website:

https://elearning.ala.org/local/catalog/view/product.php?productid=1100

Core webinars are recorded and registrants receive a link to the recording
shortly following the live event.

For questions about registration, contact ALA Registration by calling
1-800-545-2433 and press 5 or email registration at ala.org.

For all other questions or comments related to Core webinars, please
contact Core CE staff at corece at ala.org.

*Posted on behalf of the Core Continuing Education Committee.*

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