Librarians as writing tutors.

Several reference librarians have trained to be writing tutors. Recognizing that there isn't a clear division between writing and research, librarians wanted a broader range of skills with which to help the students.
http://docushare.lib.rochester.edu/docushare/dsweb/Get/Document-27277/chapter_one.pdf (see last several paragraphs)

Goals:

• Librarians have broader range of skills with which to help the students.

• Much stronger collaboration with College Writing Center.

Assessment:

NA

Experimenting with peer-to-peer instruction during bibliographic instruction; instructor as “coach”.

For example, students are broken into groups and each group is asked to work with and assess a particular resource, such as a database. The groups then come back together and it is the students that teach the others about the resource that they just used. Librarian becomes coach, rather than talking-head instructor.

Goal:

Better student learning.

Library course guides populate Blackboard.

Sort of like a subject guide, except that the resource guide is tailored directly to an individual course. The library course guide is automatically populated into the Blackboard courses. Course guide includes a picture and contact information for the class librarian, in order to increase awareness of subject librarians.
http://www.dlib.org/dlib/march03/gibbons/03gibbons.html
Very dated article-- has been upgraded several times and now lives in Blackboard. To see what they look like, go to
http://www.library.rochester.edu/index.cfm?page=courses

Goals / Assessment:

NA