Transcript Turning the Tables: A Faculty

Turning the Tables:
A Faculty-Centered
Approach to
Incorporating
Information Literacy
into the Curriculum
Chadron Hazelbaker, Assistant Professor [email protected]
Nadean Meyer, Learning Resources Librarian [email protected]
Ielleen Miller, Coordinator of Instruction [email protected]
Eastern Washington University
Poll: Working with
Departments
• How do you work with departments to
develop information literacy skills?
Past Practices
• Set sessions with English composition
sequence
• Work with individual faculty members who
asked for & already valued library instruction
• Dr. Hazelbaker…
– Assumed students already had research skills
– Didn’t know how the librarians could assist
Project Goals: Asked
Departments to…
• Answer the following questions:
– In regards to acquiring, evaluating and using information, what are
your student learning outcomes, and what should students be able to
do at three different stages within the major?
– How will students demonstrate that they have learned these
outcomes?
– How will you systematize assessment of the students as a whole, to
determine if they are learning the above outcomes? And if they don’t
appear to be, how will you make changes, or “close the feedback
loop”?
– What will the librarian’s role be in facilitating these outcomes?
• Teach at least 3 courses with revised research components and/or
assignments: one at the beginning, one somewhat midpoint, and
the last one towards the end of their bachelor’s degree.
Project Logistics
• 7 departments in 3 years
Year One
Year Two
Year Three
Biology
Physical Education,
Health & Recreation
Dental Hygiene
History
Urban & Regional
Planning
Reading
Women’s & Gender
Studies
• Experimented with different time-frames
• Paid faculty stipends
Dr. Hazelbaker’s
Perspective
• Unsure at the beginning… was told would be
good for me and would be paid
• Positive synergy with other faculty
• Got to know the librarians’ skills sets – librarians
more than “keepers of the books”; especially
liaison who held office hours in department
• Discussions about building on each other’s
classes very helpful
What Worked Well
• Grant funding for participants
• Pairing departments to share assignments &
strategies
• Intensive workshop with active listening
• Project goals in worksheet format
• Re-cap dinners at the end of the quarters &
reflection documents
• One coordinator & a champion for project
What Didn’t Work So Well…
• Spreading it out over the academic year
• Readings for some faculty members
• Sequencing skills from beginning to end of
major for some departments
• Time intensive for librarians, but it blends with
other duties & better targets
Project Sustainability
• No more grant money, yet wanted to increase
number of departments involved
• In end of winter 2010, held 3-hour workshop &
targeted specific “low-hanging fruit” departments
• Initially invited 11 departments; 5 attended kickoff workshop; 3 continued after workshop
• Paid stipend out of library budget
• Each department works with subject librarian
within departmental timeframes, with wrap-up
meeting end of each quarter
Questions?
• For audience:
– What departments at your college would be ready
and willing to articulate the research skills they
want their students to have?
– How would you encourage departments to
participate?
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