Goal 5: Educate students and faculty in the effective analysis and use of information and ensure they have the skills and knowledge needed to support teaching, learning and research.
Objective 1: Assist undergraduate students to acquire the basic information literacy skills they need to achieve academic success.
Performance Activities:
Library faculty will offer UNL 205, UNL 206 and CSI 198 as ways of meeting General Education information literacy requirements.
Bibliographers and UNL instructors will engage in professional development and share pedagogical ideas through regular meetings.
UNL 205 & 206 instructors will evaluate existing online tutorials and develop new tutorials in response to identified needs of users who prefer self-paced instruction.
Library faculty will participate in University curriculum assessment efforts to integrate information literacy into course content.
Instructors will evaluate SIRF forms and pre and post-test results for useful input and modify courses accordingly to improve pedagogy.
The IMC will offer short courses to assist students in their e-publishing needs.
Peer reviewers will observe classroom sessions and provide input to improve instructional pedagogy.
User Education librarians will compare local data to national information literacy standards and recommend needed changes and improvements.
Performance Indicators:
Undergraduate students will be able to successfully navigate the Libraries’ resources and services.
Undergraduate students will demonstrate information literacy skills in their coursework.
The number of courses satisfying information competency requirements meets demand.
Information literacy courses meet the ALA standards for information literacy.
Courses are adapted and modified regularly to meet evolving needs.
Bibliographers and UNL 205 & 206 instructors are active in professional discourse and organizations.
Student use of online tutorials increases and the results meet desired standards.
Methods of Assessment:
Objective 2: Assist faculty to integrate information resources and research skills instruction into upper division and graduate courses to increase students’ understanding of the structure of information in their disciplines.
Performance activities:
- Bibliographers will meet with departmental liaisons/chairs to learn more about the library instruction and research skills needs of majors and graduate students.
- Bibliographers and User Education librarians will develop and offer subject-oriented library instruction and/or Web tutorials, research guides, etc. tailored to the needs of individual classes.
- Bibliographers and User Education Librarians will work with individual faculty to incorporate information and research skills instruction into upper division courses.
Performance Indicators:
- Bibliographers establish close working relationships with faculty.
- Faculty welcome librarians’ expertise in information resources and research skills instruction.
- Students demonstrate evidence of research skills in papers and coursework.
Methods of Assessment:
- Increased requests for librarians to conduct course related instruction
- Course evaluations
- Faculty feedback to bibliographers
- Pre-test/post-test results.
Objective 3: Increase faculty awareness of issues in scholarly communication.
Performance Activities:
- Bibliographers will engage faculty in the review of subscriptions and the cost of library materials in their discipline on a biennial basis.
- The Libraries will continue to sponsor symposia on issues in scholarly communication.
- The Libraries will promote electronic publishing and other emerging digital services key to the future infrastructure of scholarly communication.
- The Collections Division will contribute to news bulletins at least once a semester to keep faculty informed about developments in scholarly communication and their impact on academic disciplines and the libraries.
- The libraries will encourage faculty involvement in issues related to scholarly communication.
- Increased faculty knowledge of changes and new models of publishing in scholarly communication
- ncreased awareness of the economics of scholarly communication
- Increased awareness of the issues that confront the University at Albany Libraries
Methods of Assessment:
- Faculty feedback to bibliographers
- Increased attendance at events
- Requests for assistance in digitizing faculty research.
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