Faculty-Librarian ad hoc group proposes undergraduate pilot program for 3 departments.

One of our university archivists and an instruction librarian worked together with a History professor to create the proposal. It proposed a pilot program involving faculty in three departments (Anthropology, History, and English), and three pilot course were chosen. Faculty in three pilot courses would receive additional support from the library by collaborating with librarians to develop course-specific resources for students, having these librarians create presentations to teach students about the collections and resources most pertinent for their research, and making library staff available to both faculty and students during that semester to help direct and assess the use of those sources. This proposal has been accepted by the University Quality Enhancement Plan, which has a focus on undergraduate research.

Goals:

• Cooperate with faculty members to enhance students' learning.

• Students will be able to find and use information effectively and in a legal and responsible manner.

Assessment:

NA

Camtasia tutorials support infolit efforts. (Anderson Library)

Online tutorials: the library has formed a working group to create video tutorials to teach students and other users on campus how to use library resources (e.g. searching library catalog, using databases) and to enhance our users' information literacy skills. The tutorials are used to reach students and faculty who have not been to the Library for instruction, and probably do not plan to. We believe this is one of the ways to reach our vast user population, especially considering distance learners. We use Camtasia to create these tutorials, and post them on the Library website.
http://info.lib.uh.edu/help_assistance/tutorials/index.html

Goals:

See above

Assessment:

NA