A vital part of the Library's Mission is to "provide its students, faculty, staff, and administration with the resources necessary to support their educational needs and objectives." In order to accomplish this, Henry Buhl Library seeks to achieve the following goals with respect to Library Resources & Services:
Goal 1: Be the academic information center of the Grove City College campus
Goal 3: Provide assistance and appropriate resources to support scholars with their academic pursuits
In order to accomplish these library goals, the library has established the following objectives for providing Resources & Services:
| Description of Assessment | Staff routinely collect and review data from a variety of sources to assist in making decisions related to building the collection (use of electronic resources, circulation, interlibrary loan & document delivery requests). |
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| Responsibility | Library Director; Interlibrary Loan Coordinator; Serial Librarian; Circulation & Reference Desk Statistics Coordinator; Assessment Coordinator |
| Distribution of Results | Library Director; Provost; L & T Committee, Board of Trustees |
| Assessment Schedule | Ongoing; reported each semester (e-book circulation is only reported in the fall, due to incomplete statistics in January) |
| Last Assessment Occurred | Summer 2022 |
| Changes Made Based on Assessment Data |
| Description of Assessment |
Staff routinely collect and review the number and titles of interlibrary loan materials requested by faculty, staff, and students. A monthly list of all items requested via interlibrary loan is provided to the Library Director, who reviews the list to identify new titles or topics to add to the library's collection. |
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| Responsibility | Library Director; Interlibrary Loan Coordinator |
| Distribution of Results | Library Director |
| Assessment Schedule | Ongoing |
| Last Assessment Occurred | Summer 2022 |
| Changes Made Based on Assessment Data |
| Description of Assessment | Staff gather statistics on the use of individual subscription databases and e-journals. Costs of each resource are also examined and the cost per use is determined. If use is particularly low and/or if the cost per use is especially high, staff and departments are consulted to determine if the resource is necessary for the College's academic programs. |
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| Responsibility | Library Director; Serial Librarian; Library Reference Staff; Academic Departments (as needed) |
| Distribution of Results | Library Director; Provost; L & T Committee, Board of Trustees; Library Reference Staff |
| Assessment Schedule | Annually; reported each fall |
| Last Assessment Occurred | Summer 2022 |
| Changes Made Based on Assessment Data |
Databases with low ROI may be canceled based on this assessment data. Before purchasing any new journals, the cost of the journal is evaluated to determine if purchase or funded document delivery is the most cost efficient option. |
| Description of Assessment | The Serials Librarian maintains records of all document delivery requests purchased by the library. These records indicate the total number and cost of each request. Annual totals are then used to make budgetary adjustments to the library's document delivery budget. |
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| Responsibility | Library Director; Serials Librarian |
| Distribution of Results | Provost |
| Assessment Schedule | Annually |
| Last Assessment Occurred | Summer 2022 |
| Changes Made Based on Assessment Data | As the number of document delivery requests and their associated costs continue to decline, the library is able to allocate these funds to other areas of the budget the following year. |
| Description of Assessment | The E-Reserves Coordinator maintains records of all e-reserve course readings provided by the library. These records indicate if the reading falls within the library's Copyright Clearance Center (CCC) Academic license and, if not, how much the reserve cost. Annual totals are then used to make budgetary adjustments to the library's permissions budget. |
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| Responsibility | Library Director; E-Reserves Coordinator |
| Distribution of Results | Provost |
| Assessment Schedule | Annually |
| Last Assessment Occurred | Summer 2022 |
| Changes Made Based on Assessment Data | As the number of e-reserve readings that fall under the library's CCC Academic License grows, the total cost of permissions has dropped and allowed the library to allocate these funds to other areas of the budget the following year. |
| Description of Assessment | Staff gather statistics on the number of users that view the library's webpages, reporting that usage on a monthly basis. |
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| Responsibility | LibGuides / Web Services Administrator |
| Distribution of Results | Library Director; Provost; L & T Committee, Board of Trustees |
| Assessment Schedule | Ongoing; major changes reported when noted |
| Last Assessment Occurred | Summer 2022 |
| Changes Made Based on Assessment Data |
| Description of Assessment | |
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| Responsibility | Library Director; Assessment Coordinator |
| Distribution of Results | Library Director; Provost; L & T Committee, Board of Trustees |
| Assessment Schedule | Ongoing; reported each semester |
| Last Assessment Occurred | Summer 2022 |
| Changes Made Based on Assessment Data |