Using Library Resources to Enhance the Student Experience

1. Using Library Resources to Enhance the Student Experience Timothy J. Foley, Director, Client Computing & Library Services Lehigh University

2. Lehigh Overview • Founded in 1865 • 4700 undergrads, 1200 grads, 450 faculty, 1200 staff • Four Colleges (Arts & Science, Engineering, Business, Education) • Research Extensive • Ranks 31st out of 262 national universities in US News and World Report’s annual survey

3. What I will cover • Organization Structure to Enhance Services • Portal Developments • Content Development – Led by a Librarian • MyLibrary • Parent Portal, Alumni and many more • Information Literacy Initiative and Digital Library Projects • Information Literacy Initiative • Digital Library and its uses • Religion Studies • Physics and Philosophy • History • Earth and Environmental Science • Beyond Steel

4. Integrated Support Model (cont.) • Client Services • Librarians, Computing Consultants, Instructional Technologists, Enterprise Consultants, Help Desk, Residential Networking, Media Services, Security • Cross functional teams assigned to support each college and the administrative offices • At times it feels like herding cats – but it does work • Digital Library Team and Special Collections • Award winning Lehigh Lab Umbrella – led by Faculty Development and a Faculty Fellow

6. MyLehigh Campus Portal • Enhancing student life, academics and community • Targeted information channels • Student & course information integrated • Innovative first year applications • Online student orientation • Course advising before students arrive • Calculus readiness exam • College-based information • Housing selection • Pay deposits on-line • On-line mentors

7. Lots more portal developments • Parent Portal • Alumni Portal • Board of Trustee Portal (Piloting with Audit committee) • Graduate Portals modeled after our First Year Student Portal

8. Library Resources • 1.2 million Books • 8,400+ E-Journals • 90+ Electronic Databases • Some Digital Library Sites • Beyond Steel • Illuminated Manuscripts • Lehigh Valley Geology & History (1939-1940) • Copernicus • I Remain • for more: • http://digital.lib.lehigh.edu/

9. MyLehigh+MyLibrary - Use of the campus portal for personalized electronic resources

10. Key features of MyLibrary • Librarians set up default choices for subject pages • Look and feel resembles the rest of the Lehigh portal • Users can customize subject lists or select titles from outside their discipline • All electronic resources cataloged in SIRSI library catalog, with standard subject headings • “Fund code” approach – assign specific department codes to track funding by subject area • User classes harvested out of Banner

12. MyLibrary Portal Usage • November 2007 3500 unique visitors • 38% Undergraduates • 49% Graduates • 13% Faculty and Staff • Visits by College • Engineering 33% • Arts and Science 22% • Education 22% • Business 14% • Undeclared 9% • See http://mylibrary.lehigh.edu/repository/

13. Quotes from our clients • Wow! Major kudos to you all for the great new journalism collection portal-thingy! There are journals there that I didn't realize we had electronic access to. Thanks so much for making it easy to find what's available in our hard-to-categorize field of research. • I find the … product a real asset to the Portal.  I am now drawn to use the Portal in a full-service way which just wasn't available before. Thanks to all who helped motivate this addition to the Portal. 

14. Navigating Information Literacy Initiative • Develop student skills to: • Find and credit appropriate resources • Use appropriate research strategies • Develop faculty skills to: • Teaching to avoid plagiarism • Model Lehigh assignments highlighted • Inform faculty of existing research skills of Lehigh students • How Middle States defines it: • Information literacy is an intellectual framework for identifying, finding, understanding, evaluating and using information. Middle States Standard 11 See http://www.lehigh.edu/library/infolit/

15. Research Skills Assessment (RSA) Results http://www.lehigh.edu/library/infolit/faculty/rsainstrument.html

16. Illuminated Manuscripts – Book of HoursDesigning religion assignments around 14th to 16th century prayer books

18. First Contact – I Remain • Archive Project – transcription and interpretation of early American letters from “I Remain” project. • Used Teams LX tool (Blackboard) to create collaborative web documents & synchronous communications tools for class sessions

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20. Copernicus and Brahe • The Problem of the Planets • Co-taught by Physics and Philosophy Professors

23. Beyond Steel Video1 Video2

24. Two Volumes of local 1941 PA Geological Surveys

25. Summary • Innovation organizational structure • Librarian expertise to enhance student experience • Content and organizational skills • Client Services skills to understand the needs of our clients • Use of unique Lehigh resources • Special Collections materials used in creative ways for instruction • Digital Library to make resources available to all

26. Any Questions?Contact Info: Timothy Foley tim.foley@lehigh.edu

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