Big Talk From Little Libraries, 2017

Crucial FeedbackFrom Students

Crucial FeedbackFrom Students

Big Talk From Little Libraries, 2017

What is this Presentation About?

Intro and About My School

Why is Feedback Important?

Options Are Good

Official Survey Technique

Unofficial Survey Technique: Pardon Me While I Wake You Up From Your Nap

Small Everyday Info Gathering

Bonus Feature: Build Music Playlists on the Wall

Intro and About My School

Guybrarian.Also an artist, who makes zines, comics.

My School:St. Anthony Catholic High School in San Antonio, TX.Serves about 400 students, grades 9-12I’m the only librarian and library staff person.

How have zines influenced your own designs?“The ethos mainly; not being afraid to do things ourselves and embracing the mistakes”(Pau Wau Publications, 197).

How have zines influenced your own designs?“The ethos mainly; not being afraid to do things ourselves and embracing the mistakes”(Pau Wau Publications, 197).

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Why is Feedback Important?

Incorporates your students’ voice.Specifically his/her own voice.Makes the space their own.Provides a feeling of ownership.Shows you care about how your people feel.

Has your library got soul?Get some feedback to find out.

Options Are Good

Figuring what people know and what they don’t know.Show them, tell them.For example: show teens pictures of furniture choices, give them some options they might not be familiar with.

Strongly Agree Agree Neutral Disagree Strongly Disagree

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How to build the best surveys?

I really don’t know.Try many different methods. Make it easy on yourself.Create a google form to enter your information.Enter your paper information into a digital form.Open-ended questions are wonderful.So are likert scales:

Strongly Agree Agree Neutral Disagree Strongly Disagree

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Essential Questions

Open-endedThought-provokingCalls for higher-order thinking.Points toward important,transferable ideas.Raises additional questions.Requires support and justification.Recurs over time.(McTighe, 3)

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Official Survey Technique: Paper Forms

Keep people’s mind on the library.Even if the library is being used for another event.There is the curse/magic of libraries being multi-purpose spaces. Make the curse work for you. Turn it into magic.For example a bi-annual blood drive takes over my entire library space. I use that day to survey people: lunchtime, between classes, around the blood drive, wherever.

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If I could change one thing at SACHS Library it would be:

Music corner, bean bag chairs, board game day (competition), rent out board games to study halls and no final exam periods

More decorations (lights, paper origami).

Adjust spacing

What does SACHS Library add to the school? In other words, how is SACHS Library valuable to St. Anthony Catholic High School?

Comfortable atmosphere for students to work. Knowledgeable librarian.

A place to quietly hang; safe zone.

It creates an open and visual environment as soon as you walk in the door.

It's inviting, never empty.

What do you WANT TO DO at the library? Write down anything and as many things.

I would like to have a regular type of class based on books, stories, and imagination.

Make it more open, get more books.

Chill, homework, socialize, talk to GP

Another 3d printer. More chairs

I want to go in and just do what I need to do.

Color, paint.

Official Survey Technique: Discussion Sessions

Open-ended survey technique that comes with hot chocolate.I used a program called Catch, sadly no longer in business.Other options: LinoIt, Padlet, and more.Enables students to connect directly to the “screen” and give feedback, like a pop-up music video.Don’t be afraid of random teen comments like “Future”. Do be aware of any disrespectful comments that get added.http://linoit.com/users/boomshackalack/canvases/goodlookingouthttp://linoit.com/users/boomshackalack/canvases/goodlookingout

Paper Forms Responses

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Paper Forms Responses

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Unofficial Survey Technique: Pardon Me While I Wake You From Your Nap

Build relationships and seek info.Wake a person up who might be sleeping in the library.Later on during the class period, or just sometime after the student is properly awake, ask them what they think about the furniture.You don’t have to ask about what they envision for the library. You can measure things as they currently are, starting small.

Small Everyday Info Gathering

Focus on small and everyday info gathering for more realistic information. You can even talk about how you like playing with space out in the world, seeing how people respond.Twitter response from one of my graduated students:

Bonus Feature:Music Playlists on the Wall

Songs That Saved Your Life

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David Gallin-ParisiA Playlist of Dance Music for Collecting Feedback

1. Duke Ellington Tulip or Turnip, Live at Newport 19562. Omar-S Scene Was Set (Norm Talley Mix)3. Waylon Jennings Are You Sure Hank Done It This Way?4. Tomorrow’s People Open Soul5. The Kinks Here Comes Yet Another Day6. Can Vitamin C7. Derrick May Strings of The Strings of Life8. SVN Dark Plan 5 (Extended Mix)9. Soichi Terada Saturday Love Sunday10.Mr. Monday Daybreak

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Works Cited

Davis, Stuart. New York Waterfront. 1938. Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY. WebMuseum, Paris.

https://www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/auth/davis/. Accessed February 2017.

@JadElClemens. “And what a kickass job you did” Twitter. 16 Aug 2015, 12:56 a.m.,

https://twitter.com/JadElClemens/status/632792931930275840.

McTighe, Jay, and Grant Wiggins. Essential Questions: Opening Doors to Student Understanding.

ASCD,

2013.

Saveri, Lele, et al. The Newsstand. Skira Rizzoli, 2016.Good Looking Out, DGP 2017Good Looking Out, DGP 2017