Library Instruction Forum

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Library Instruction Forum

• August 12, 2009

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Outline

• Welcome Goals
•  Instruction in the University Library Barbara
  MacAdam
•  Overview of New Committee Structure
•  Innovative Instruction Highlights
•  Large Group Brainstorming
• Committee Brainstorming report-outs

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Goals

• Energize instructors and instruction programs
  within the University Library
• Introduce new committee structure and its goals
• Bring together new instruction committees and
  other staff interested in instruction
• Brainstorm top instruction priorities
• Develop tangible outcomes for each committee,
  with needed resources and timelines

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Instruction Its role in the University Library
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Instruction Committees

• Steering Committee
• Assessment
• Emerging Technologies
• Instructor College
• Learning Communities
• Orientation Programming
• Outreach and Promotion

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Instruction Task Forces

• Future Librarian Planning
• Video Task Force
• Residential College
• Lesson Study
• All are attached to one of the standing
  committees

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Instruction Innovations

• What are others doing?

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Instruction Innovations

• Offer Information Literacy Grants to faculty who
  partner with a librarian to integrate IL into
  their course (OSU)
• Offer an online one-credit information literacy
  course (OSU)
• Create online information literacy teaching
  materials for GSIs faculty
• Offer an information literacy assessment within
  course management system (OSU)

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Instruction Innovations (cont)

• Provide funding for information literacy-related
  professional development activities (UCLA, 750
  per event)
• Organize an annual Information Literacy in
  Academic Libraries Workshop
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• First-year/Capstone Experience Programs
• Formal Community Partnerships (public libraries,
  literacy councils, etc.)

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Instruction Innovations (cont)

• Hire an Assessment Specialist within the library
  (WSU)
• Sponsor student library research awards
  recognizing excellence in research, analysis, and
  writing (Duke)

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Brainstorming Instruction

• What innovative ideas have you seen?
• What would positively affect student information
  skills at UM?
• What challenges do you face as an instructor?
• When you teach, what do you want to know at the
  end?  Is it how you taught? Is it what they
  learned?
• Where should the instruction program at UM be
  focusing for the future?