Library Impact Data Project: Looking for the Link between Library Usage and Student Attainment

Stone, Graham; Ramsden, Bryony

doi:10.5860/crl12-406

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“…Since implementing the library cube, UWL has become aware of other similar projects, such as the JISCfunded Library Impact Data Project (JISC, 2011; see also Stone, Ramsden, & Pattern, 2011). However, UOW appears to be the only institution to have created an ongoing system that joins usage to student systems data.…”

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Capturing business intelligence required for targeted marketing, demonstrating value, and driving process improvement

Cox

Jantti

2012

Library & Information Science Research

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The University of Wollongong (UOW) has undertaken an innovative and collaborative research project to demonstrate the value that can be provided by academic libraries. The tool developed, the "Library Cube", is a data warehouse linking student borrowing and use of electronic resources to students' academic grades and demographic information. The project is different to other institutions' efforts to link usage to student outcomes, in that the Library Cube is not a one-off research project, but is now an ongoing part of UOW's systems and performance reporting and represents a fundamental shift in evaluating the student experience through the integration of discrete systems and datasets.The Library Cube demonstrates a new direction for evidence-based research. Analysis enabled through the Cube has revealed a very strong relationship between library usage and students' academic performance. This information will improve UOW Library's ability to demonstrate value to clients and stakeholders. The Library Cube has also delivered some anticipated and unexpected findings on the relationship between social variables (such as gender, age, and citizenship) and library usage behaviors; and in doing so has also identified potential target audiences for Library promotions and engagement strategies. ABSTRACTThe University of Wollongong (UOW) in New South Wales, Australia, has undertaken an innovative and collaborative research project to demonstrate the value that can be provided by academic libraries through a tool called the 'library cube'. The library cube consists of two major components: a backend system containing a multidimensional data warehouse linking student borrowing and use of electronic resources to students' academic marks (grades); and a frontend system that allows users to quickly and easily create cross tabulated data views, such as average student marks by frequency of library resource usage and gender.The project is different from the efforts of other institutions to link usage to student outcomes, in that the library cube is not a isolated research project, but is now an ongoing part of UOW's systems and performance reporting. The library cube represents a fundamental shift in evaluating the student experience through the integration of discrete 2 systems and datasets. It has revealed a very strong relationship between student library usage and academic performance. This information will improve UOW Library's ability to demonstrate value to clients and stakeholders. The library cube has also delivered some anticipated and unexpected findings on the relationship between social variables, such as gender, age, and citizenship, and library usage behaviors; and in doing so has also identified potential target audiences for library promotions and engagement strategies.

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Capturing business intelligence required for targeted marketing, demonstrating value, and driving process improvement

Cox

Jantti

2012

Library & Information Science Research

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“…Although the evolving information landscape offers wide-ranging information options (Chen 2012;Fawley & Krysak 2012), it might overwhelm the average library user who lacks the essential knowledge, skills and techniques to comprehend and navigate it (Aderibigbe & Ajiboye 2011;Breen & Fallon 2005;Ogunmodede, Adio & Odunola 2011;Owusu-Ansah 2004;Suleiman 2012;Wooliscroft 1997). Similarly, this evolving landscape requires huge investments in an era characterised by economic turmoil (Stone & Ramsden 2014), forcing libraries to compete for financial support with other important enterprises within parent institutions. Competition has heightened the urgency for libraries to justify not only their costs but also their worth and existence by ensuring returns on investment (Powell 1992, in Whitmire 2002.…”

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“…Various authors assert that access to information, as well as its effective and efficient use, can have a positive impact on academic performance of students and enhances teaching and research outputs in a university (Aderibigbe & Ajiboye 2011;Bhatti 2010;Breen & Fallon 2005;Hindagolla 2012;Isiaka & Olaide 2013;Maduako 2013;Ogunmodede, Adio & Odunola 2011;Owusu-Ansah 2004;Stone & Ramsden 2014;Suleiman 2012;Umeozor 2013;Wong & Webb 2011). These authors attest to a correlation between mastering the use of the academic library and improved academic performance.…”

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Evaluating user education programmes for postgraduate students in the School of Management, Information Technology and Governance at the University of KwaZulu-Natal

Moyane

Dube²,

Hoskins

2015

South African Journal of Libraries and Information Science

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“…This follow-up study used a sample of more than 33,000 undergraduate students from eight U.K. universities and found a positive relationship between library resource utilization (access to electronic resources and book loans) and degree attainment. 15 This relationship held true collectively across institutions and, for institutions providing loan and electronic resource data, at the institution level.…”

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The Impact of Library Resource Utilization on Undergraduate Students’ Academic Performance: A Propensity Score Matching Design

Kot

Jones²

2015

CRL

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. © 2015 Felly Chiteng Kot and Jennifer L. Jones, Attribution-NonCommercial (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0 /) CC BY-NCThis study uses three cohorts of first-time, full-time undergraduate students (N=8,652) at a large, metropolitan, public research university to examine the impact of student use of three library resources (workstations, study rooms, and research clinics) on academic performance. To deal with self-selection bias and estimate this impact more accurately, we used propensity score matching. Using this unique approach allowed us to construct treatment and control groups with similar background characteristics. We found that using a given library resource was associated with a small, but also meaningful, gain in first-term grade point average, net of other factors.mid budget cuts and legislative pressure, academic institutions are increasingly seeking ways to foster student success. Colleges and universities often create and/or expand support services and programmatic interventions, with the hope that these services will yield positive returns, such as higher student persistence rates and better grades. Student support services, in turn, are increasingly asked to demonstrate their worth in terms of contributing to the achievement of institutional outcomes. Academic libraries are not an exception.

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Library Impact Data Project: Looking for the Link between Library Usage and Student Attainment

Cited by 107 publications

References 12 publications

Capturing business intelligence required for targeted marketing, demonstrating value, and driving process improvement

Capturing business intelligence required for targeted marketing, demonstrating value, and driving process improvement

Evaluating user education programmes for postgraduate students in the School of Management, Information Technology and Governance at the University of KwaZulu-Natal

The Impact of Library Resource Utilization on Undergraduate Students’ Academic Performance: A Propensity Score Matching Design

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