Date: May 30 Time: 9am-5pm Hours: 8 Total Hours: 18 Today, I spent a full 8 hours at Perry. My morning of entering surveys began slowly, as SurveyMonkey’s website was down for around an hour. During this time, I found free stock images of libraries to be used in the redesign of Perry’s website. I also finished the […]
Date: May 25 Time: 9am-12pm Hours: 3 Total Hours: 10 Today, I continued observing at the reference desk. Sharon and I discussed the observation study and the strategic planning process. Beth had mentioned the possibility of using contextual inquiry as part of the study, so I spent time researching this form of ethnographic study. I continued inputting surveys and […]
Date: May 23 Time: 9am-12pm Hours: 3 Total Hours: 5 This morning, I spoke with Perry Public Library director Beth Hatch, who is also my supervisor for my practicum. We outlined my tasks and projects for the next few weeks: creating a location and action-based tally sheet for the observation study (June 12 – June 24) inputting paper community […]