15 Student Data Secrets that Could Change Your Library, Number 5 Will Shock You

1. 15 Student Data Secrets that Could Change Your Library, Number 5 Will Shock You Tiffany LeMaistre Nevada State College

2. • 3,700 Students • Founded in 2002 • All Digital Collection About Nevada State College First Gen 65% Non- First Gen 35% White 42% Hispanic 27% Black or African American 10% Asian 10% Two or More 5% Unknown 4% Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander 2%

3. Overview • Our Data Journey • Getting Started • Privacy • Using the Data

4. Data Sources • EZProxy logs • Interlibrary loan requests • Library computer use • Group study room reservations • Library instruction attendance • Research consultations

5. Our Data Journey • Planning • Research • Testing 2014 • Start of Data Collection • Feedback 2015 • Research assessment • Process refinement 2016 • Reflection • Continuing Improvement 2017

6. 2014: The Why Year

8. 2015: The Whoa! Year

10. 2016: Redefining the How

12. 2017: Charting a Way Forward

13. Getting Started

14. 1. There is no handbook

15. 2. Look beyond the library for help

16. 3. Start by reproducing other research

17. 4. Be willing to take a detour

18. 5. D*ta is not a four letter word

19. Privacy

20. 6. Transparency

21. 7. Encryption

22. 8. There is such a thing as too much data

23. 9. No backups

24. 10. Anonymize as soon as possible

25. 11. Aggregate before you share

26. Using the Results

27. Results Library users at Nevada State are significantly more likely to: • Be retained • Maintain good academic standing • Earn a higher GPA Students that participated in an online library instruction module were significantly more likely to: • Earn a higher score on a research assignment • Use the library collection

28. 12. Continue to improve the machine

29. 13. Tell everyone

30. 14. Correlation still has value

31. 15. Visualization matters

32. 15. Visualization matters Presented to administrators Presented to campus 65.07% 80.61% Did not Participate Participated Average Research Assignment Grade by Library Instruction Module Participation Results from an independent samples t-test indicate that students who did not participate in the library module (M = .651, SD = .399) scored significantly lower on the research assignment than students who participated in at least one section of the library module (M = .806, SD = .271). The mean difference was significant, t (128) = -2.075, p = .020, r2 = .033.

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34. Resources Related Reading LeMaistre, T. (2016, February). Logging logins. Lightning Talk presented at the SCELCapalooza, Los Angeles, CA. Retrieved from http://www.slideshare.net/tlemaistre/logging-logins LeMaistre, T. (2016, April). A Proxy for Success: Analyzing EZProxy Logs to Connect Resource Use to Student Success. Presented at the Electronic Resources & Libraries (ER&L), Austin, Texas. Retrieved from http://www.slideshare.net/tlemaistre/a-proxy-for-success LeMaistre, T. (2016). Cost Per User: Analyzing EZProxy Logs for Assessment. In Proceedings of the Charleston Library Conference. Charleston, SC: Purdue e- Pubs. https://doi.org/10.5703/1288284316291 Marineo, F. (2016, June). Canvas Commons: Scaling Library Instruction in the LMS. Presented at the Library Instruction West, Salt Lake City, Utah. Retrieved from http://www.slideshare.net/FrancescaMarineo/canvas-commons-scaling- library-instruction-in-the-lms Nevada State College. (2014). Nevada State College: Facts & Figures. Retrieved February 13, 2015, from http://nsc.nevada.edu/2069.asp More Information Cox, B., & Jantti, M. (2012, July 18). Discovering the Impact of Library Use and Student Performance. Retrieved from http://www.educause.edu/ero/article/discovering-impact-library-use-and-student- performance JISC. (2015). Library Analytics and Metrics Project. Retrieved February 9, 2015, from http://jisclamp.mimas.ac.uk/ National Information Standards Organization. (2015). NISO Consensus Principles on User’s Digital Privacy in Library, Publisher, and Software-Provider Systems (NISO Privacy Principles). Retrieved from http://www.niso.org/topics/tl/patron_privacy/ Oakleaf, M. (2010). The Value of Academic Libraries: A Comprehensive Research Review and Report. Chicago, IL: Association of College and Research Libraries. Retrieved from http://www.ala.org/acrl/sites/ala.org.acrl/files/content/issues/value/val_report.pdf Oakleaf, M. (2015). The Library’s Contribution to Student Learning: Inspirations and Aspirations. In College and Research Libraries, v.76:no.3. Retrieved from http://m.crl.acrl.org/content/76/3/353.full.pdf OCLC. (2015). Log File Analysis. Retrieved February 13, 2015, Retrieved from http://www.oclc.org/support/services/ezproxy/documentation/loganalysis.en.html University of Minnesota Libraries. (n.d.). Library Data and Student Success. Retrieved February 7, 2015, from http://blog.lib.umn.edu/ldss/

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