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Imagining the Future

Imagining the Future. Creating a Shared Vision for Information Literacy in Washington Seattle - April 9, 2004 Carol Hansen Professor and Instruction Services Librarian Stewart Library, Weber State University, Ogden UT. Welcome!. Today’s Schedule Introductions Handouts PowerPoint

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Imagining the Future

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  1. Imagining the Future Creating a Shared Vision for Information Literacy in Washington Seattle - April 9, 2004 Carol Hansen Professor and Instruction Services Librarian Stewart Library, Weber State University, Ogden UT

  2. Welcome! • Today’s Schedule • Introductions • Handouts • PowerPoint • Best Practices • Kuhlthau article excerpt (Agents) • Web Gallery http://faculty.weber.edu/chansen/Washington/

  3. Today’s Objectives Participants will be able to: • Visualize goals for building information literacy plans, outcomes, programs and partnerships • Be familiar with best practices trends and models • Be more familiar with terminology • Understand the scope and activities of the LSTA grant

  4. Another Important Goal:Make it Manageable • Many models for IL programs • Each institution needs to find its own way • All student learning and IL progress is good

  5. Overview • Visioning • Best Practices • Information Literacy Across the Curriculum: Models and Trends Discussion “post its” will be summarized and added to Web Gallery

  6. Be Thinking About… • The big picture today… • What kinds of graduates do you want? • What kinds of programs will produce these graduates? • Be reflective • Leave your problems back on earth…

  7. ET: Today’s Metaphor • We are all strangers in a strange land “In America” • Embrace our uniqueness • With the help of a few special friends…

  8. Small Group Process At your tables, assign (and rotate) the following roles • Facilitator • Recorder • Presenter • Artist

  9. Don’t be afraid of new or different ideas, terms, concepts Ask questions, pose comments at any time

  10. New partnerships and new models can turn out just fine!

  11. International Definition of IL “Information Literacy encompasses knowledge of one’s information concerns and needs, and the ability to identify, locate, evaluate, organize and effectively create, use and communicate information to address issues or problems at hand; it is a prerequisite for participating effectively in the Information Society, and is part of the basic human right of life long learning.” - Prague Declaration Web Gallery Exhibit

  12. A Picture Tells a Thousand Words What does the ideal IL program or plan for your college look like?

  13. Visioning Exercise Individually draw a picture of the ideal IL plan or program at your college • This should be symbolic, not realistic, abstract is good, no words • Picture your graduates and your IL program • What are your inputs and outcomes • Focus on perfection, this is a fantasy! • There are no problems with funding, staffing, etc.

  14. Visioning Exercise As a group, create a group drawing on the large post it notes • Take the best ideas/elements of each individual drawing and make it into a new big drawing • Remember, this should be symbolic, abstract is good • Picture your graduates and your IL program • Focus on perfection, this is a fantasy! • Be creative!! Let’s see IL in a new light • Group presentations – describe your ideal program

  15. Strengths and Challenges From the “Ideal Vision” • What are we/you already doing well? • Each group list at least 3 things

  16. Strengths and Challenges From the “Ideal Vision” - What are our challenges? • List 3 items/issues • …and any thoughtson opportunities?

  17. Who’s on your IL team? • Who is pictured in your ideal vision? • Who might be missing or forgotten? • What are our roles and their roles? • Change agent • Collaboration agent

  18. Kuhlthau Study 13,000 students can’t be wrong • 99.4 percent of students in grades 3 to 12 believe school libraries and their services help them become better learners. • Library as “dynamic agent of learning” Web Gallery Exhibit

  19. Kuhlthau Study “The eight characteristics can be used as a strategic road map for school librarians who want to place a stronger emphasis on instruction and learning in their programs.”

  20. Kuhlthau Study The eight characteristics include describing librarians as: • Literacy Development Agents • Knowledge Construction Agents • Academic Achievement Agents • Technological Literacy Agents • And more…

  21. Kuhlthau Study: What are our roles? Small group discussion • Review handout • How can we, working in the community and technical college setting, use these roles as models to expand IL learning plans and programs? • As agents and (provocateurs?) • As collaborators? • As library faculty, directors, or as staff?

  22. Break After the break, please try to sit with or very near others from your institution

  23. Folding the Perfect Visions into Best Practices… • ACRL Best Practices for IL Programs • Best Practices Models Web Gallery Exhibit

  24. ACRL IL Best Practices • Real title = • “Characteristics of Programs of Information Literacy that Illustrate Best Practices: A Guideline” Web Gallery Exhibit

  25. Mission Goals and Objectives Planning Administrative and Institutional Support Articulation with Curriculum Collaboration Pedagogy Staffing Outreach Assessment/Evaluation IL Best Practices

  26. Best Practices: Mission • Wartburg’s model • IL Program Mission: • Put it on the Web • Share it widely Web Gallery Exhibit

  27. Best Practices: Goals and Objectives • Weber State • The Best Practices ARE our annual goals and Objectives • SUNY Albany • Reflects the Middle States Commission Guidelines Web Gallery Exhibit

  28. Best Practices: Planning • How is information literacy driven (or not) by librarians? • How can/does assessment drive planning?

  29. Best Practices: Program Planning Plan • What is your planning process? • Planning is necessary for program evaluation • Student centered Revise Implement student Assess & Evaluate

  30. Best Practices: Administrative Support Small group discussion How does/will your IL program grow? • How much of your IL program development is top down? • How much is bottom up or sideways? • How do you get and keep support? • Several groups will report out

  31. Best Practices: Collaboration • Stakeholders • Strategies

  32. Best Practices: Outreach • Focus on enhanced communication • Clear message defining and describing program • James Madison • Use a variety of outreach channels • Responsibility of all members of the institution • Seattle Central Web Gallery Exhibit

  33. Outreach Opportunities Small group discussion • What are some of the best ways or strategies you have used, or could use, to develop outreach activities, formal and informal?

  34. Best Practices: Assessment Learning Outcomes Assessment • Many different methods and styles • Minneapolis Community College • Knowledge and attitudes • Data is good: How has learning increased? Web Gallery Exhibit

  35. Best Practices: Assessment Programmatic Evaluation • What improvements have been made? • What goals have been met? • What integrations, collaborations achieved?

  36. IL Across the Curriculum • Many ways to enhance learning… • Can be called other things • Many curricular strategies and models to pick and choose from • IL, like writing, requires repeated experiences

  37. ILAC At Weber State Case Study • English 2010 and FYE • General Education • Core Requirement (lower division) • Course or exam • Course integrated (lower and upper division) • Many partners, library driven Web Gallery Exhibit

  38. ILAC Models Required, librarian taught, module(s) within • Core English or writing course - most common • First Year Experience Course • Specific courses in major or program • Capstone course in major

  39. ILAC Models IL in General Education • Wartburg • The five courses in the Wartburg Plan of Essential Education (required Gen Ed) have mandated information literacy components • Information literacy skills are not intended to be taught in isolation but are planned to advance the goals each faculty member establishes for classroom instruction Web Gallery Exhibit

  40. ILAC Models Campus Wide (Computer and) Information Literacy Requirement • Tutorial only • Tutorial and exam • James Madison University • Minniapolis Community and Technical College • Course only • Course or Exam • Weber State Web Gallery Exhibit

  41. IL Courses – All the options… • Required courses or elective courses • pilot and experimental options • Online or traditional face to face courses • Hybrid - in class and online • Courses taught by • library faculty • discipline faculty • library faculty/discipline faculty teams • Other teams?

  42. ILAC Models Departmental/programmatic IL • Discipline Faculty driven • Courses and/or programs • Defined and diffused – CSUF Web Gallery Exhibit

  43. ILAC Models Portfolios • Paper and/or electronic • Zayed University Web Gallery Exhibit

  44. Other Models? • What other models are you aware of or are you interested in? • The problem is…too many right answers, lots of options! Have fun!

  45. ILAC Models Small group discussion What are the advantages (and possible disadvantages) of each curricular model ? • Librarian taught module or session(s) within a course • IL infused in/across Gen Ed courses • Gen Ed IL required course • Campus requirement (tutorial, course and/or exam) • Departmentally designed & integrated program • Portfolios • Other… Report summary to larger group

  46. The Grant “Through this project, LMDC will enable librarians in the 34 community and technical colleges in Washington State to play significant roles in infusing information literacy into the curriculum and making it an integral part of the learning process.”

  47. In Conclusion… • We are each building our bag of treats • Each partner will add to our bag

  48. Lunch Time

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