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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">There’s a definite value judgment present in Zoe’s blog post about using analytics that’s been well-discussed in critical librarianship. I just read yesterday
Karen Nicholson’s keynote from the Canadian Libraries Assessment Workshop that was referenced by Zoe (<a href="https://ir.lib.uwo.ca/fimspres/49/">https://ir.lib.uwo.ca/fimspres/49/</a>) that outlined a lot of the concerns in a really readable way. Much of
it has to do with student privacy (as I think was clear in the pieces Zoe referenced) and also how an overemphasis on data can lead to focusing on the wrong things in academia, i.e., an overreliance on doing that which can be easily measured and treating education
like a business rather than a learning endeavor, which was more Karen’s focus in her keynote.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">I (and probably all of you), as a library director at a community college, can’t reject metrics, but I can be cautious and deliberate about what data we collect,
why and how we collect it, and what we do with it. Aryana, your statement about viewing it as a teaching effort is in my opinion the best way to consider it.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">(360) 417-6275 | shines@pencol.edu<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> LIBRARYDIR [mailto:librarydir-bounces@lists.ctc.edu]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Bates, Aryana<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, January 2, 2018 9:19 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> WACTC Library Directors <librarydir@lists.ctc.edu><br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [LIBRARYDIR] Articles on library value<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">Interesting. Thanks for sharing, Erica. The timeline is certainly useful. I wonder, from the tone of the blog post, whether there's a value judgment being made about libraries' "complicity" in
using analytics that it is important to pay attention to. I guess I'd be interested to hear what others think about the ways in which using analytics is problematic. I think we can't avoid using data and that there is value in evidence...and I think it is
important to be savvy and cautious about expecting data to tell the whole story...as with any teaching effort.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">Aryana<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">Aryana Bates, MLS, PhD<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">North Seattle College<br>
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<p><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black"><a href="mailto:aryana.bates@seattlecolleges.edu">aryana.bates@seattlecolleges.edu</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">206.934.3612<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, January 2, 2018 2:56:45 PM<br>
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<p class="xmsonormal">The CLAMS newsletter led me to a blog for Zoe Fisher. Zoe was a librarian at Pierce, and recently returned there as an Instructional Designer. In her recent post,
<span style="color:#1F497D"><a href="https://quickaskzoe.com/2017/11/10/libraries-learning-analytics-a-brief-history/">Libraries & learning analytics: A brief history</a></span>, she provides a timeline with links for readings that may be of interest as you
consider using and sharing library data to demonstrate value to the college. I shared this with my librarians also.
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<p class="xmsonormal">Wishing you all a fantastic 2018! <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="xmsonormal">Thanks,<o:p></o:p></p>
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