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UT Arlington Libraries 2016 Quality Enhancement Review (QER)

The UT Arlington Libraries created the attached self-study in preparation for a visit from our external reviewers in July of 2016.

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Teaching And Learning In Makerspaces: A Challenge

In an attempt to find collaborators for a presentation proposal, I sent the following description to a few mailing lists: My interest/research is…

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Spring 2017 UT Arlington Libraries Innovation Mini-grants

The UTA Libraries’ Innovation Mini-Grant program is designed to foster innovation within the Libraries by supporting staff who are willing to…

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Brainstorming Maker-Based Competencies

At this early stage, my Task Force is primarily focused on brainstorming “generic” learning outcomes that can be mapped to specific curriculum…

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Maker Competencies

One of the things that my team is tasked with developing is a set of maker-based competencies that can be mapped to course learning outcomes.…

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Making Maker Literacies

When the concept of “maker literacy” first came to my attention, it was shortly after I began my new job, which just so happened to be right on…

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Central Library Service Zone Activity

The Assessment team looked at the activity data related to the time period 11pm to 7am.

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UT Arlington Libraries Laptop Services

The UT Arlington Libraries have been loaning laptops to patrons to take outside the libraries since 2003.

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UT Arlington FabLab Project | A description of FabLab user analysis

In October 2014, UT Arlington Libraries became the first in the Dallas-Fort Worth metropolitan area to have a fully functional Fabrication Lab.…

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Library Use in Spring 2015

As the students relax and enjoy their summer break after all the hard work they put in during the Spring semester of 2015, we here in assessment…

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Gate Count Information

This visualization gives a quick look at some of the ways that we are learning to use data from our card swipe access at the front door of the…

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Circulation activity for September 2014, Visualized

One of the most frequently asked questions about the collections is "What titles are used the most often?"