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Getting in on the Ground Floor

Getting in on the Ground Floor. welcome. From the Teaching & Learning Services team at Miller Nichols Library, University of Missouri – Kansas City Diane Hunter, Head of Teaching and Learning Services ∙ hunterdi@umkc.edu Fiona Holly, Graduate Assistant ∙ fh7t8@mail.missouri.edu

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Getting in on the Ground Floor

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  1. Getting in on theGround Floor

  2. welcome From the Teaching & Learning Services team at Miller Nichols Library, University of Missouri – Kansas City Diane Hunter, Head of Teaching and Learning Services ∙ hunterdi@umkc.edu Fiona Holly, Graduate Assistant ∙ fh7t8@mail.missouri.edu Barbara Varanka, Graduate Assistant ∙ bkvb8c@mail.missouri.edu

  3. Our goals • To communicate how we found a way to engage in campus-wide initiatives • To share how we made our services relevant to campus-wide SLOs • To provide you with ideas for how to make these changes at your university library, too!

  4. A LITTLE BACKGROUND

  5. BACKGROUNd • History with campus-wide initiatives • Getting librarians involved with campus-wide decision-making • Operation: Consider Information Literacy • What are SLOs, and how did we help create them?

  6. REORGANIZATION

  7. REORGANIZATION • First of all, what is TLS? • What were we like before TLS? • Library-wide reorganization & construction • The birth of TLS • What does TLS do? • Creation of library-wide SLOs

  8. THE FUTURE

  9. THE FUTURE What is discourse? How are we involved? How did we get involved?

  10. THE FUTURE Discourse = literacy + orality

  11. THE FUTURE

  12. Assessment UMKC General Education Core Technology and Information Literacy Student Learning Outcome

  13. Assessment How will information literacy be assessed?

  14. REORGANIZATION Oneshot + 1-credit course = our new hybrid course

  15. Skills for Life Our mission is to teach students lifelong information literacy skills.

  16. TIPS • Be alert to campus trends – know what’s going on • Especially regarding broad campus curriculum and research initiatives • Get on the committees • If not invited, ask and make your case • If not appointed, ask if you can attend meetings anyway • If you can’t attend, how can you get updates, meeting minutes, etc. • Listen carefully when it doesn’t involve the library • You’ll learn a lot of other stuff that you can use • Speak up when it does involve the library, information literacy • Speak up if information literacy is being ignored • Make contact with individuals appointed in charge of new initiatives • Make yourself/your face/your name/your goals known

  17. ? Diane Hunter, Head of Teaching and Learning Serviceshunterdi@umkc.edu Fiona Holly, Graduate Assistant fh7t8@mail.missouri.edu Barbara Varanka, Graduate Assistant bkvb8c@mail.missouri.edu QUESTIONS

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