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2.    UX objective: Gather baseline data about how our spaces are currently being used and how well they meet our users’ needs.

Measures

  • Analysis of users' activities in the Libraries.
  • Analysis Heat maps of use of our spaces
    • Space study
  • Ratio of hours booked to hours available for bookable rooms
    • Room use statistics
  • Ratio of seats used to seats available within the Libraries; in other spaces beyond dorms
  • List of features of other study spaces (to determine why choose that space vs. Libraries, or vice versa)
  • specific equipment and spaces in the Libraries.
  • Identification of 2 most desired times to extend open hours.
  • Identify 2 priority areas to align services, spaces, or equipment to better support these.
  • 1 Heat map for each library showing how spaces are currently used.
  • Space inventory of equipment and furnishings that are in our spaces Space inventory

Possible Measures

  • Service/Assistance
    • total square footage allotted to this kind of space
    • # of desk stats
    • # door count?
    • # hours spent staffing within service/assistance spaces
    • # of staff per hour in service/assistance spaces
  • Social/exhibits space
    • total square footage allotted to this kind of space
    • # of attendees to exhibits and events
    • # exhibits per year
    • demographics of people attending exhibits
    • # of events held per year in our spaces
    • # of exhibit locations
    • total square footage of space allotted to social needs of users
    • # of users who use library for social/networking
  • Reading rooms
    • total square footage allotted to this kind of space
    • # seats
    • # soft seating
    • # of rest rooms near reading rooms
    • percentage of reading room space allotted to stacks/browsing collections
  • Collections
    • total square footage allotted to this kind of space
    • total # bays of print materials
    • % of collection circulating at any one time
    • # of sub-collections (browseries, new books displays, Sanborn maps, DVD collections, etc.)
  • Instruction spaces
    • total square footage allotted to this kind of space
    • # of instruction spaces
    • # seats allotted to instruction; # of seats in DIRC
    • list of equipment allotted to instruction
  • Equipment
    • # of machines by type
    • Reliability indicator (e.g., # of fix-lib tickets for machine X, Y, Z)
    • # of public computers; ratio of public to MIT-only computers
    • list of equipment by owner; id non-Libraries equipment
    • # of electric outlets and locations
  • Study rooms (individual and group)
    • total square footage allotted to this kind of space
    • total # of seats in all study rooms
    • # of large screens available
  • Storage
    • total square footage allotted to this kind of space
    • # of bays
    • # of boxes
    • % of collections in storage; total, books/journals/other
    • # of storage locations
    • cost of storage per square foot (or other?)

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3.    UX objective: Working with AMPS, create a new web portal to the video collections at MIT that highlights the excellence in teaching and the student learning experience at MIT.

Measures

  • Increased # 5% increase in number of views on specific videos highlighted by new site# of visitors to siteselected videos which were on TechTV last year (comparison of views from November 2010 to November 2011).
    • Tool: Tech TV stats
  • 200 unique visitors to siteper month
    • Tool: Google Analytics
  • Positive feedback from donor.
    • Tool: any feedback from donor
  • 5 Amount of PR generated by new site; # of twitter stories, news blog stories, etc.(amount of PR generated by new site)
    • Tool: TechTV stats
    • Tool: Google Analytics
    • Tool: any feedback from donor
    • Tool: PR searches

4.    AMES/LDLC/UX objective: Improve the DSpace@MIT user interface.

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