Thursday, April 12, 2012

Stats: Librarian-Student Ratio and Instruction Assessment

Have been working with some interesting statistics at my institution today (one set depressing, the other heartening), so I thought I'd share. I'll leave my own detailed commentary on this out, so draw your own conclusions as to what these numbers mean.


Librarian-Student Ratio:

Fall 2011 data:
Library hrs of operation/wk:  60
Student FTE:          9344  (total number of students in 2010-11 fiscal yr: 19,700)
# of librarians:                  4  
# of FTE students per librarian:  2336
# of other prof staff:                  0
# of other paid staff:                  0.25
# of student assts:                  0


Library Instruction Assessment 
(for a non-required, non-course-related, evening workshop for adult, distance learners):
My Introduction to Searching workshop in 2012 (90 min, evenings, live and online using Elluminate)
Number of students who registered online: 113
Number who participated: 65
Number who filled out the survey: 32  (view my post-workshop Google forms survey)

  1. Would you recommend this workshop to your friends or fellow students? 
    1. Yes: 100% (32)
    2. No: 0%
  2. Please rate the quality of the instruction: 
    1. relevance & clarity of subject matter:   
      • Poor: 0%
      • Fair:  0%
      • Good: 22% (7)
      • Excellent: 78% (25)
    2. librarian effectiveness in teaching the subject matter: 
      • Poor: 0%
      • Fair:  0%
      • Good: 16% (5)
      • Excellent: 84% (27)
  3. Note: there are other inputs on the form, but these are the easily quantifiable ones.

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