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Library as Place: What Performing Arts Students Value Most

Library as Place: What Performing Arts Students Value Most. Joe Clark Kent State University Music Library Association’s 83 rd Annual Meeting Atlanta, GA Feb. 28, 2014 . Comprehensive Study of Spaces & Services . Why: shrinking resources forthcoming minor renovations

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Library as Place: What Performing Arts Students Value Most

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  1. Library as Place: What Performing Arts Students Value Most Joe Clark Kent State University Music Library Association’s 83rd Annual Meeting Atlanta, GA Feb. 28, 2014

  2. Comprehensive Study of Spaces & Services • Why: • shrinking resources • forthcoming minor renovations • To better serve student needs • Questions: • Why do students come to the library? • What services/resources do they most value? • What spaces are most important to students? • Three-pronged approach: • Observational data collected from the last year • Survey • Focus Groups

  3. Background • Kent State is a public research university located in NE Ohio, with 28,000+ students • The Performing Arts Library (formerly the Music Library) is a branch library. 2nd busiest of the 13 university libraries • In addition to students from the Schools of Music and Theatre and Dance, many speech pathology and nutrition students use the facilities

  4. Library Layout • Five major areas, providing a variety of spaces • Two computer labs not run by the library • A lobby area that doubles as a circulation area • A reading room, with non-circulating collections, technology, and a variety of patron areas • Two group rooms • Collection room, with compact shelving, four study carrels, and open study space

  5. Circulation Area – Entering Library

  6. Circulation Area – Booth View

  7. Circulation Area – Desk View

  8. PC Lab

  9. PC Lab

  10. Mac Lab

  11. More Mac Lab

  12. Reading Room

  13. More Reading Room

  14. More Reading Room

  15. Reading Room cont…

  16. The Reading Room’s BIG Tables

  17. Soft Seating in the Reading Room

  18. Group Rooms

  19. Group Rooms

  20. Collection Room – Open Space

  21. Collection Room – Study Carrels

  22. Collection Room - Collections

  23. Observational Data • Every hour on the half hour students sweep the library, noting where patrons are within the library • Limitations: not noting what patrons are doing, just where they are going. • Today’s data are from the entirety of the fall 2013 semester • Over 11,000 “counts” last semester

  24. Where They Go:

  25. Computer Usage – Where They Go

  26. PC Lab Takes the Gold Medal

  27. Reading Room - Silver Medal

  28. Mac Lab gets the Bronze

  29. Takeaways • Students were as likely to be at the booth in the circulation room as in either group study room (Circulation room=477, both group rooms=444) • Ninety-one percent of students went to an “open” space; group rooms accounted for 4% while carrels comprised 5% of student usage • Study carrels get more use than group rooms • One-third is for computer lab use

  30. Circulation Area

  31. Survey • Two-pager on one sheet • IRB approved • Completion time approximately 7 minutes • Incentivized with five $50 amazon giftcards • Administered over a two-week period • 105 valid surveys • On to the results…

  32. Survey Demographics

  33. Survey Results: Mac vs PC

  34. Survey – Personal Computing

  35. Preferred Library Space

  36. “Library space & technology is more important than library services & collections”

  37. “Expert help with library resources is important for my success as a student”

  38. “A strong library collection is important to my success as a student”

  39. “I come to and use the library alone”

  40. “I come to and use the library with others”

  41. Study Spaces in Rank Order

  42. Technology in Rank Order

  43. Services in Rank Order

  44. Importance of Quiet Study Space

  45. Importance of Group Study Enclosed

  46. Importance of Group Study Space in an Open Area

  47. Importance of Soft Furniture

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