Librarian's Office Hours

Library Office Hours (LOH) were created with the busy student in mind and serve to fill multiple roles. The LOH are much the same as the office hours any faculty member has, providing a time to confer one-on-one with an expert on a myriad of problems and questions. The office hours provide students an opportunity to receive assistance in a less open setting than the library reference desk and, at the same time, are not limited to the focus of topical workshops. Assistance is provided by Undergraduate Librarians and Graduate Assistants.
http://www.library.uiuc.edu/ugl/help/officehours.html

Goals:

• Improve student use of library materials.

• Provide alternative setting for research assistance.

Assessment:

User survey.

Library partners with lifelong learning institute.

The University Library has developed an instructional service program aimed at the non-traditional lifelong learners taking part in the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (OLLI). This program includes orientation to library facilities and services, hands-on information literacy workshops, and a stand-alone OLLI course focused on cultural heritage materials and organizations.
http://www.library.uiuc.edu/learn/osher.html

Goals:

• Integrate information literacy skills into campus lifelong learning initiative.

• Foster increased library usage by non-traditional users.

Assessment:

NA

Library portal consolidates infolit / instructional materials.

We have created the "Learn to Use the Library" site to provide a portal to instructional resources, tutorials and other learning objects (http://www.library.uiuc.edu/learn/). We have licensed the LibGuides software (http://uiuc.libguides.com/) to provide a new authoring environment for instructional materials that is easy to use and allows integration of Web 2.0 features in order to better meet user expectations for instructional materials.

Goals / Assessment:

NA

Facebook links students to library resources.

The UIUC Library designed an application for Facebook that allows anyone with a Facebook profile to add a search box to access the UIUC Easy Search metasearch engine to find books and articles on a topic. The target audience for this application is primarily undergraduate students, with the goal of increasing awareness of library resources, content, and collections, and experimenting with providing access to library search tools within alternative user environments such as social software.
http://www.facebook.com/apps/application.php?id=2414276217

Goals:

See above

Assessment:

NA

Library curates and creates content for Illinois materials, served via portal.

The Illinois Harvest Web Portal provides search & discovery service across and access to publicly available digital resources about or related to Illinois, with an emphasis on digitized resources derived from the diverse collections of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. The Portal also provides access to digital resources about Illinois and by Illinois scholars from collections and institutions around the state and region. Among the collections encompassed by the Portal are: digitized photos of and texts about Abraham Lincoln, copies of Illinois constitutions, World War I and II documents and images, historical Illinois maps and aerial photographs, documents about Illinois during the Civil War, the Bloomington-Normal Black History Project documents, and historic architectural drawings and renderings about the "built environment" of the University of Illinois. The Illinois Harvest Portal provides faculty, students, and the wider public a window into the wealth of digital scholarship, information, and cultural assets produced or curated by libraries, museums, government agencies, and academic institutions. Currently the Illinois Harvest Portal indexes content from 82 collections.
http://illinoisharvest.grainger.uiuc.edu/

Goals:

See above

Assessment:

NA