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Library Instruction Committee

Library Instruction Programs at UW: a summary for 1997 - 98

Overall

We gave 209 workshops or tours to 3,395 participants. Of these, 92 were course-related workshops for 3,183 undergraduate students and 2 3 were workshops for 292 graduate students

Collaboration with UW Departments (Academic and Service)

  1. All our course-related workshops are collaborations with faculty. One faculty member recently introduced a librarian to his class as the "third member of the UW teaching team" (faculty and TAs being the other 2). The greatest level of c ollaboration is with ES and AHS faculty. We cannot claim to have systematically integrated instruction in information seeking skills into all the undergraduate curricula (as recommended by "Building on Accomplishment"). However, we have consistentl y instructed students in required courses for Kinesiology, Optometry and Planning as well as grad students in German and History and Math TAs over the last several years. We are working to increase our integration of Information Literacy skills in more un dergraduate curricula.

  2. We delivered more web-based workshops in the IST training room, Arts computing lab and, for the first time, the Internet Café in Village 1. These collaborations reflect both the increased need for this kind of hands-on instructio n and the lack of suitable facilities in the Library. By linking the content of the workshops to our website, we're providing self-paced learning for students and faculty who could not attend the scheduled session. The session "Finding Course Resources" was taught collaboratively by a librarian and an IST staff person. The sessions that were offered in Village 1 brought us closer working relationships with Dons and residence staff.

  3. We continued teaching students how to search for job related information using the library. This workshop is integrated into the Career Resource Centre's ongoing career workshops for students.

  4. We contributed displays on Library services and answered questions from students and visitors as part of 3 campus-wide Open Houses - Campus Day, Student Life 101 and Distance Education Open House. We also gave a lecture(s)?) on how to s earch for information as part of the 2 day DE program.

  5. A campus organized International Students Orientation day included again 3 workshops on "Library Services and How to Use Them" given by library staff from each campus library. Each year the number of students attending has increased. Similarly , the Library's Co-ordinator of Library Services for Students with Disabilities and the Head of UW Services for Disabled Students gave a workshop together for these students.

  6. As part of a government program to help new Canadians with engineering degrees become employed, Doug Morton gave a workshop on how to use the UW library to research jobs and companies and to update their engineering knowledge.

Other Activities

  1. User Ed Chair, Anne Fullerton, spent a 2-month sabbatical at the University of Virginia investigating library instruction programs at universities in Virginia.

  2. We created 2 web-sites to provide grad students and faculty with links to all the basic sites which will support their teaching and research.

Anne Fullerton Chair, UW Library UserEducation,
affuller@library x 6917

 


December 20, 2005