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Item Center Stage: Performing a Needs Assessment of Campus Research Centers and Institutes(2017-04) Malone, Andrea; Martin, Lisa; Peters, Christie; Turner, Cherie; Vaughn, PorciaOutreach to research centers and institutes is often overlooked in academic libraries. This article discusses a needs assessment conducted by the Liaison Services Department at the University of Houston Libraries that reviewed library services to centers and institutes at the University of Houston’s main campus. The assessment was conducted for two purposes: to build collaborations with centers and to determine how the libraries might create new services and/or market existing services to meet the centers and institutes’ growing research needs.Item Lessons Learned: A Primo Usability Study(Library & Information Technology Association (LITA), 2016-03-01) Brett, Kelsey; Turner, Cherie; Lierman, AshleyThe University of Houston Libraries implemented Primo as the primary search option on the library website in May 2014. In May 2015, the Libraries released a redesigned interface to improve user experience with the tool. The Libraries took a user-centered approach to redesigning the Primo interface by conducting a "think-aloud" usability test in order to gather user feedback and identify needed improvements. This article describes the methodology and findings from the usability study, the changes that were made to the Primo interface as a result, and implications for discovery system vendor relations and library instruction.Item Making evidence-based collection development feasible: Using R coding to automate analysis for action(2016) Gao, Wenli; Turner, Cherie; Ke, IreneCollection development practitioners face a complicated publishing environment with many new and developing purchasing models. Even with the new models in development, approval plans and firms orders are still commonly used in many academic libraries. In the literature, many have demonstrated ways of gathering monograph usage to inform collection development decisions. Nonetheless, we have rarely seen studies that have demonstrated ways to incorporate study results to form a detailed action plan and change collection practice. This research takes monograph usage study to the next level. Instead of analyzing the usage patterns of monograph collection as a whole, we compare the usage patterns of books acquired via approval plan and firm orders and incorporate interlibrary loan data for analysis. In order to make the work manageable and sustainable, an R script was developed to automate the analysis process. The results highlight call number ranges in granular levels where purchasing changes may be needed, allowing the selector to quickly identify the areas that need attention. The data provided by the script, in combination with a review by the selector, can provide the information needed to make effective changes to approval plans and firm order practice. In this presentation, we will discuss the rationale behind conducting this analysis, show how coding can make the analysis manageable and sustainable, and demonstrate the impact of this analysis on collection practices in various subject areas.