student_success_working_group
Table of Contents
See Evergreen for Academics for an earlier iteration of this group.
Meetings and agendas
Current priorities
- Fix existing accessibility errors – 1
- Identifying items by grade level, reading level, interest level, etc. – 1
- Search by accelerated reading scores
- Search by local schemes
- Improving Boolean search – 1
- documentation makes it sound not useful
- interface is really unintuitive
- existing bugs
- Contains Any on the advanced search screen
- More precise indexing (many current issues are due to MODS indexing) – 1
Additional areas of interest
Removing barriers to student success
- Incorporate accessibility testing into release process
Reducing inconsistencies in student experience
- Identifying student patrons by grade/year, major, or classroom/homeroom
- Improved staff workflows
- In acquisitions: supporting periodical renewals, standing orders for monographic series, multi-part monographs
- In acquisitions: EDI periodicals orders
- Demand-driven acquisitions – maybe automated (EDI) ordering of added copies based on demand (e.g. http://journal.code4lib.org/articles/10924)
- Improving single-day circulations
- Improving billing/coordination with bursar's office
- API for information about library hours and closures
- Improvements to inventory capabilities
Improving discovery
- Showing location of materials in ways other than call numbers and maps (e.g. getting audible directions on your phone)
- Better integration with discovery layers
- Leveraging authority data to improve search
- Synonym tables rather than stemming
- Multiple subject heading schemata
- Improving display understanding (academic PAC flavor?)
- Integrating ebook circulation (like the Overdrive integration for EbookCentral, Ebsco ebooks, etc.)
- Integrating article search (e.g. include a new tab in the catalog that allows users to search the Ebsco Discovery Service API in the familiar Evergreen interface)
- Modeling and/or enabling searching as strategic exploration
- Integrating institutional repositories
- Linked open data, library visibility on the Internet
- Search for library resources using a map (e.g. https://github.com/sul-dlss/blacklight_heatmaps)
- LTI integration with Canvas, Moodle, etc.
- Does the Kid's OPAC work for primary school students?
Experiential learning
- Soliciting and supporting student contributions to the Evergreen community
Modeling scholarship as a conversation
- Export citations as RIS, BibTeX
Assessment
- UX studies
- Measuring student outcome metrics
- Other ways to learn more about how students use Evergreen?
Fostering student-Library connections
- Public-facing staff directory
Supporting faculty + staff development
- notifying faculty + staff of new acquisitions in their field (e.g. https://github.com/lbcclib/faculty_notifier)
student_success_working_group.txt · Last modified: 2019/09/18 13:42 by sandbergja
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