Libraries must mitigate chronic funding issues through fundraising. At the same time support from stakeholders has become more important, requiring more-effective friendraising. These needs led the Association of Research Libraries to award an ARL SPEC Kit on Library Development to document support (personnel, funding and other resources) for library development, and the work methods, efforts and assessment types for development at major libraries. The national data collection and analysis will culminate in an ARL-published Open Access monograph, and an ARL-hosted webinar. The unique data set and findings support leaders in benchmarking fundraising and friendraising capacity, and in assessing library development.

Springfield Public Library (OR) is in need of a new website that is both optimized for modern technology and accessible for disabled users. This project involved a user needs assessment survey to identify changes the community wants to make as well as a comparison of potential website platforms the library could use. This project serves as the foundation to the library's process of designing a new website, and it began the process of making the library's website more accessible and user-friendly.

The Disease Profiles project is sponsored by the Institute of Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME), a research center that provides publicly accessible population health data used to evaluate current policies and strategies. Currently, users of the existing tools on the IHME website have difficulty viewing the impact of a specific disease. Our web page provides snapshots of the impact of over 300 diseases in 195 different countries. This tool will assist health policy makers, advocates, non-governmental organizations, and members of the general public in making informed decisions about public health in regards to funding, policy, and education.

The community of Columbia Falls, Montana is economically disadvantaged, and does not have widespread access to reliable wireless internet. The project ImagineIF Device Circulation has assessed this need by conducting a feasibility study to determine the viability of a wifi hotspot lending program based out of the ImagineIF Columbia Falls location. The market, technical, financial, and organizational feasibility were all studied. Additionally, a SWOT analysis and success metrics were devised, so that the groundwork is already laid in case ImagineIF Libraries decides to move ahead with this program in the future.

Thousands of people in Washington State are released from correctional custody every year to face the challenge of reentering the community. This research provides simple data that enables public libraries to better understand the challenges and needs of the formerly incarcerated people they serve, and design effective services and outreach to engage those who are not already library users. By collecting data directly from formerly incarcerated people, this study was able to form a rough profile of the community and discern patterns of need, information seeking behavior, and library perception and awareness.

The Patricia Young Collection (PYC) contains over 10,600 35mm slides that visually document more than one hundred different architectural and archaeological sites from seventeen different countries in East and Southeast Asia. This slide collection will be uploaded to the School of Art + Art History + Design’s in-house MDID digital image database and then entered as compound object records into the University of Washington Library’s Digital Collections repository. The goal of this Capstone project is for the collection to reach a wider audience at the University of Washington and, by extension, researchers worldwide.

Encore Capital Group, a leading global provider of debt management and recovery solutions for consumers in 15 countries, recently forayed into the digital world and launched several digital marketing campaigns across all platforms such as Google, Bing, Yahoo, Facebook etc. However, they were reliant on the reporting portal of the individual platforms to make investment decisions. Team Insight Squad performed extensive data research and analysis and built an end-to-end BI tool that integrated these data sources, transformed it and built a customized dashboard that provides key insights to track campaign performance, optimize the ad dollar spend, and enable budget pacing.

The Orbis Cascade Alliance is a nonprofit consortium of 39 universities throughout the Pacific Northwest. They advance learning and research by combining the physical and digital library resources of their member universities to serve over 275,000 students. For my capstone, I constructed and conducted a series of tests designed to evaluate the Alliance’s catalog user interface and the information architecture through which they organize digital and physical materials. The results of these usability tests, card sorting activities, and interviews will help the Alliance to continue to promote academic success and better research.

Many organizations utilize Excel to track valuable data. Often times, these spreadsheets grow out of hand with information stored inconsistently and in random areas. This results in a loss of data integrity and the inability to extract information holistically. We teamed up with SightLife, a global health organization to build a dynamic database with powerful data analytics by incorporating existing Microsoft technologies. With a standardized and streamlined data management process, Sightlife now has the ability to ask their data questions and discover the answers. Utilizing their information’s full potential brings them one step closer to eliminating corneal blindness