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Library Instruction

Library Instruction. Cooperation. Source: www.rcet.org. Overview. Comprehensive Instruction Benefits and Tradeoffs to Cooperation LSTA Cooperative Library Instruction Grant Objectives Method Outcomes. ACRL Information Literacy Best Practices. Comprehensive

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Library Instruction

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  1. Library Instruction Cooperation Source: www.rcet.org

  2. Overview • Comprehensive Instruction • Benefits and Tradeoffs to Cooperation • LSTA Cooperative Library Instruction Grant • Objectives • Method • Outcomes

  3. ACRL Information Literacy Best Practices • Comprehensive • Horizontally – i.e. all incoming students • an integral relationship with key institutional curricula and initiatives so that there is horizontal breadth to the program– e.g., general education, writing programs, etc. • Vertically– i.e. specific to departments & courses • a progression of information literacy learning outcomes matched to increasingly complex learning outcomes throughout a student’s academic career so that there is vertical integration in the program. Information literacy programming should reach beyond the first year or general education courses and be present in discipline-specific coursework or courses in the majors.

  4. Challenges • Traditional instruction • Not a recognized part of the curriculum • Inclusion would compete with established curriculum • Not enough library faculty if it were • Online tutorials integrated into courses • Not enough library faculty to create and maintain all of the required tutorials

  5. Benefits of Online Tutorials • Do not take up class time • Provides just in time instruction for Info Lit • Once introduced, students can revisit when needed • Can be posted on • Library pages with resources • Class resource and assignment pages • Library instruction pages • Library course pages

  6. The Down Side Creation & Maintenance

  7. Can Cooperation Work? • Everybody has their favorite methods, tools, content • Cooperation • Means compromise • Takes effort, patience, time • Requires resource commitment • Requires management buy-in

  8. Thoughts on what might work • Standards and procedures for cooperation that • Permit multiple • Tutorial technologies • Pedagogical methods • Content priorities • Yet confined enough to promote sharing & reuse • Effective repository organization for simple access

  9. LSTA CLIP Grant • Start with four institutions • OSU, Chemeketa, Willamette, WOU • Create procedures and standards for producing open source tutorials • Create a repository for open participation • Create and initial offering of tutorials • Create an administrative framework for the continuance of the cooperative

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