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Library Instruction Committee

Library Instruction Committee Report: 2001/2002

  1. Overview

    This year 64 general tours and instructional sessions were offered to 595 participants; and 117 discipline specific sessions were offered to 2,916 participants.

    The Committee again operated under the Draft Terms of Reference. The Information Services Management Committee delayed discussions on the terms of reference in order to determine the outcome of the implementation of Information Literacy and also its need to deal with other issues such as virtual reference.

    The Committee took initiatives on several fronts such as reviewing the workshops or developing an evaluation form. With the assistance from Teaching Resources and Continuing Education, the Committee tried to improve the Information for Graduate Students sessions by incorporating more interactive techniques. An evaluation form was developed to obtain feedback from participants in LINC workshops, so that LINC could make changes accordingly. A registration form was developed with assistance from Systems. Students could submit an online request for workshops requiring advance registration. LINC once again continued the work originally started in 1998 to develop a database for LINC statistics. A database would be a major improvement to current manual re-entering of data into an Excel file.

    As part of a library-wide reorganization of the staff web, LINC re-organized the Committee’s pages to the library’s standards and identified which files were for public or staff only access. LINC also had representation on the Library’s Signage Committee, formed to examine the signs in the Porter Library.

    To celebrate and to also acknowledge all those who participated in the many ways to make a library instruction program possible, LINC had held its annual Library Instruction Appreciation Coffee Break in November 2002.

    The following is a listing of the tours and workshops sponsored by LINC, the promotional activities and the professional activities of the Committee.

  2. LINC Sponsored Tours and Workshops

    Library Tours - (15 tours each in Davis and Porter; and 3 in UMD)
    Find Journal Articles – Fast – Science & Engineering (2 sessions)
    Find Journal Articles – Fast – Arts and Social Science Students (2 sessions)
    Information for Graduate Students (5 sessions in the fall term; 2 sessions in the winter term)
    International Students (2 sessions, fall term; 2 sessions, winter term)
    Keeping Up with Your Research Literature – Electronically (4 sessions)
    Smart Searching Techniques (4 sessions)
    TRELLIS (4 sessions)

    Organising Your References was no longer offered, but instruction on personal bibliographic software is published on the web and made available for student’s convenience. Getting Journal Articles and Books Not Available at UW Library – no longer offered because of the low turn out last year.

  3. Publications and Promotional Activities

    LINC continued to promote library instruction services and workshops through posters, brochures, kiosk displays and electronic newsletters.

    The fall poster and brochure used the @ your library campaign which is sponsored by the American Library Association. The fall 2001 Schedule brochure was re-organized to include a 4-step sequence in its offerings – 1: 25-minute tour, 2: TRELLIS, 3: Find Journal Articles – Fast, 4: Smart Searching Techniques.

    Kiosk display included topics such as:

    Interlibrary loan/ Document Delivery
    Web of Science
    Working from Home (remote access)
    Trouble Getting Started with your Term Paper?
    Book and Article Retrieval from the TUG Libraries

    Electronic news: LINC promoted its library tours and workshops through the Library’s electronic newsletter, news @ your library. The Committee also regularly contributed to ezine, The Student Life 101: The Newsletter for First Year Students, some of the topics included, Research Guides by Subject; and Ten Top Ways to Ace Your Next Paper

  4. Professional Development:

    LINC members attended Workshop in Library Use hosted at Carleton University, and also reported to LINC on relevant library instructions from the Ontario Library Association 2002 Super Conference.

  5. LINC Membership:

    Margaret Aquan-Yuen (chair)
    Lenka Cerny (retired in January 2002)
    Linda Hastings
    Maureen McCormack (term ends April 2002)
    Erin Murphy (term ends April 2002)
    Dan Sich
    Melanie Watkins
    Jim Winterbottom

    March 2003


December 20, 2005