Information Literacy Collaborative focused on support and training for infolit instructors.

We have some great opportunities on our campus including the Faculty Senate endorsement of a set of Undergraduate Learning Outcomes that include information literacy skills and knowledge. To prepare librarians to work with faculty on the integration of these skills into the curriculum, we have created the Information Literacy Collaborative. This is an internal Libraries committee at this point, charged first with creating and delivering staff education to prepare our liaisons. The third in a series of programs will take place next week. The formation of this group is a recognition of the fact that librarians will need to move well beyond the traditional guest lecture in order to integrate infolit into the curriculum, and most of them do not feel prepared to do that at the moment. I'll attach the charge for this group.
https://wiki.lib.umn.edu/AP/InformationLiteracy

Goals:

• Work closely with the Director of the Libraries Staff Education and Development Program to plan, develop, and deliver professional development programming to applicable AP staff, particularly in the area of undergraduate learning outcomes support within liaison departments.

• Define baseline expertise that all liaisons/applicable staff should possess.

• Design, develop and implement sound instruction policies and practices in support of sustainable models of information literacy education.

Assessment:

NA

Unravel the Library program uses Lectora to reach students in composition courses.

Strategic positioning efforts on our campus have led to a strengthened writing program, including a requirement that all students take a beginning composition course here. This is a significant increase in the number of freshman courses we will work with. The first-year writing program requires the use of libraries and infolit skills. We have been running the Unravel the Library program for several years now -- workshops that students in writing courses attend. This method was almost overwhelming before the new requirements, and will not scale to meet the new need. So we are developing digital learning materials that will ultimately replace most of the face-to-face workshops. We are piloting four modules this semester. They were created with Lectora and are now being offered from the Libraries' web site, but we plan to integrate them into campus courseware in the future. The Writing Program is very supportive and working closely with us on this.
http://www.lib.umn.edu/site/aboutunravel.phtml
No link yet exists for the online modules.

Goals:

• Students will be able to focus, develop, and organize claims and backing (evidence) to flesh out an argument.

• Students will be able to distinguish between popular and scholarly sources; evaluate the credibility of sources.

• This program will scale to meet demand and will be sustainable with present resources.

Assessment:

NA

Undergraduate Virtual Library creates compelling destination for students.

Look at the “About” link from the web site.
http://www.lib.umn.edu/undergrad/

Goals / Assessment:

NA

EthicShare: a Collaborative Virtual Community.

Through funding provided by the Mellon Foundation, the Libraries are partnering with U of M Center for Bioethics, the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, and several other institutions to develop a virtual community site for scholars of Bioethics and Practical Ethics. The project seeks to foster the advancement of scholarship by giving this community an online environment that provides tailored social networking tools around a unique and rich aggregation of content. Further, the project will investigate and incorporate strategies for sustainable community-stewardship of the site; and serve as a virtual community model (with generalized architecture) for other discipline-oriented community sites.
http://www.lib.umn.edu/about/ethicshare/

Goals:

See above

Assessment:

NA