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Advancing Information Literacy: Campus-wide Initiatives and Collaborations

Enhance information literacy at the university curriculum level, fostering partnerships and advocating for user education. Develop infrastructure and programs for librarians and students. Stay updated with professional development and collaborate with various campus departments and external conferences.

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Advancing Information Literacy: Campus-wide Initiatives and Collaborations

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  1. Information Literacy Update: Accomplishments and Initiatives Lisa Janicke Hinchliffe Coordinator for Information Literacy Services and Instruction Office of Services, University Library February 16, 2005

  2. Scope of Considerations • solidify and enhance the critical juncture between the library and the university curriculum as a whole • will foster a climate at the campus level to make information literacy part of the entire curriculum • lead and coordinate the planning, implementation and evaluation of a campus-wide information literacy program; • be an advocate for information literacy and library user education, both within and beyond the library; • design and/or strengthen the infrastructures (organizational, physical, and policy) that support information literacy initiatives; • build and strengthen collaborative partnerships beyond the Library; • nurture the professional development of librarians as educators and serve as a resource person for library faculty and staff in this area

  3. Campus Connections • Office of the Provost/Undergraduate Education • Student Affairs/Dean of Students Office • CITES-Educational Technologies • Center for Teaching Effectiveness • Cultural Engagement Council • University Librarian’s Student Advisory Committee

  4. Developing Campuswide Program • Planning for in Context of Strategic Planning (with User Education Committee) • Library Fall Festival • University 101 • Campus Implementation Committee • Spring/Summer Library Implementation Group • Work with Individual Librarians • Major/Minor and Graduate Programs • UGL – Programmatic Composition I Focus • “Take Us to School” Project • ISCC-PET

  5. Infrastructure – UGL Room 291+ • Fall 2002 – prioritized need (Division meetings): hands-on classroom in Main/Undergraduate Libraries • Spring 2004 – proposal to Provost and funding allocated • Spring 2005 – detailed planning • Summer 2005 – construction Fall 2005 – available for instruction

  6. Infrastructure – Other • Classroom-on-Wheels Proposal • Card Catalog Shift + User Space Creation and Furnishing • Possible Software Solutions for “Grouping” Sets of Public Workstations • Library Statistics Website (v 1.0) – Working with Systems for v 2.0 Improvements

  7. Staffing + Professional Development • New Faces • Susan Avery, UGL Instructional Services Librarian • Dawn Schmitz, CLIR PostDoc for Digital Information Literacy • Campus Funding for University 101 Support - Includes Graduate Student Hours • Teaching Alliance • Classroom Assessment Techniques (two kinds of sessions) • Effective Lecturing • Academic Integrity/Plagiarism • New Librarians Orientation to Information Literacy and Instruction

  8. Internal Library Advocacy/Integration • Federated Search Pilot Project Implementation Team • ORR/TDnet Implementation • Electronic Resources Work Group • Integrated System Coordinating Committee • Services Advisory • Electronic Database Analysis Work Group • Current Contents/WOS Connect Work Group • Teaching various instruction sessions

  9. Professional Connections • University of Toronto Collaboration Visit • ACRL, LOEX and WILU Conferences • CIC Library Learning Space Conference

  10. Innovations Underway • Library Toolbar • RefWorks Pilot • VILLAGE (Virtual Information Literacy Learning and Growing Environment) • CPS Graduate Assistant Teaching Team • Priorities from spring 2005 division meetings?

  11. Questions? Comments? Lisa Janicke Hinchliffe ljanicke@uiuc.edu

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