Specialized digital media instruction and support. (Arts and Media Library)
We offer an extensive list of short courses on a variety of media topics. These courses are open to members of the University community, usually require registration, are free of charge, and are occasionally targeted to the needs of a particular class or curriculum. The instruction sessions are held on site, usually in the Digital Media Lab or another lab-type environment. Occasionally library staff attend academic classes and provide instruction in situ. The topics cover a broad range of media technologies, with particular concentration on capture and editing skills.
http://hitchcock.itc.virginia.edu/dml_sc_reg/index.php?c=view_offered_courses
Goals:
Assessment:
Short course evaluations; faculty feedback.
Video tutorials (Arts and Media Library)
Video tutorials on a wide variety of topics are under development at the Arts and Media libraries. A comprehensive listing of video tutorials is available at
http://www2.lib.virginia.edu/instruction/tutorials.html
Goal:
- Provide easy access to useful information about entry-level technologies or methods.
Assessment:
(Project underway; not yet fully implemented.)
Inventory of information management skills required for medical school students (Health Sciences Library)
The Library has worked with SOM faculty, at the direction of the Curriculum Committee, to develop an inventory of information management skills training throughout the 4 years of medical school with the goal of matching each training opportunity to AAMC medical school competencies for information management. Another part of this assignment was to identify gaps in training competencies and to recommend and implement training to match all competencies. The outcome has been a series of curriculum related trainings in information needs assessment and critical thinking that take place throughout the entire four years.
Goal:
Medical students demonstrate expertise in critical thinking and information needs assessment.
Undergraduate medical curriculum embeds information competencies across four years (Health Sciences Library)
Librarians and educators have collaborated to address information literacy across the entire undergraduate medical curriculum. Outcomes have included: assessing different information tools and their quality of results in small group Principles of Medicine course meetings; integrating a small group, hands-on search-retrieval assignment in Clinical Epidemiology and Genetics courses. Small group sessions are taught by librarians.
Goal:
- Questions on course exam drawn from info literacy sessions.
Assessment:
- Student assignments are reviewed by faculty and librarians (as appropriate) to determine if the anticipated competencies were demonstrated in each exercise.
Library support for nursing research (Health Sciences)
Ongoing, close collaboration with School of Nursing faculty and subject librarian for Nursing. Coverage includes class orientations, hands-on sessions relevant to curricular topics, and a focus on nursing research.
Goals / Assessment:
NA
"How Do I" Project (Health Sciences)
Our “How Do I” project aims to provide short, targeted content in a consistent, predictable, branded web interface. Topics are suggested mainly by library staff, but also by patrons and other library collaborators. An extensive range of topics is covered, with content a mix of textual description and illustrative images.
http://www.healthsystem.virginia.edu/internet/library/wdc-lib/services/howdoi/
Goal:
- Provide short, targeted content in a consistent, predictable interface.
Assessment:
NA
Curriculum guides (pathfinders) on popular topics in Special Collections
During the summer of 2007, we hired an intern to create some curriculum guides for our instruction program. He was a student from Haverford College between his junior and senior years. He worked to make "pathfinders" on various topics such as Thomas Jefferson and Architecture, Civil Rights Movement and Integration, Revolutionary War period. These are topics that we are frequently asked to teach classes on. Having a list of interesting documents to show and some pertinent information about each item is very helpful for staff having to teach classes on these subjects.
Goal:
To make instruction on a variety of topics easier to pull together.
Assessment:
NA
Engineering orientation / pedagogy redesign (Sciences Library)
We see all the 1st and 4th year students over the course of the year. Freshmen come for a basic tour and orientation with a mid-semester info literacy follow-up. Seniors come for a research-intensive workshop supporting their thesis projects. Sessions range from 1 to 2 hours depending on level of instruction. The pedagogy for these sessions has changed dramatically over the past several years. From "sage on the stage" instruction with time for hands-on experimentation, we have moved to self-paced online assignments with the instructor providing a short introduction and acting as a resource person as they work through the assignment.
Goals:
Assessment:
Student assignments are reviewed by faculty and librarians (as appropriate) to determine if the appropriate competencies were demonstrated in each exercise.
We distribute an anonymous online survey to each student as part of the class. The change from lecture to self-paced assignment has greatly improved both the numeric ratings for the class and the comments from the students.
Freshman intro courses in humanities and engineering include infolit competencies. (Alderman Library)
The Library has worked with first-year instructors in the humanities and engineering to provide library orientation classes within English Writing (ENWR 110) and Science, Technology and Society (STS). Students are given an overview of library resources and services in these 60-minute classes. Through a series of exercises, students work at their own pace on example searches intended to familiarize them with the library web pages, the online catalog and some basic subscription databases like Academic Onefile and LexisNexis. Library staff introduce some materials and serve as a resource for others (i.e., answer student questions). One of the interesting things about this program is that the instructors are drawn from several different areas of responsibility within UVa libraries. Thus for example, anyone who is interested within the graduate and undergraduate libraries may sign up to teach an ENWR session or an STS session.
Goals:
Familiarize students with basic library resources.
Reach as many first-year students as possible.
Stimulate basic critical thinking/evaluation of sources.
Assessment:
NA
Paper Clinic partnership
This program was developed in partnership with UVa's Writing Center. Librarians and Writing Center staff are available evenings and weekends during finals period to assist students with their papers, offering advice on writing as well as research and sources.
Goal:
- Employ librarians' research knowledge and written communication skills to aid students in their written work.
Assessment:
NA
Video Tutorials / Camtasia
Using Camtasia, we have sought to demonstrate library and web resources to our remote users. Tutorials include basic overviews of Google Books and Google Scholar; the online catalog; Requesting a Book from off-Grounds; and online databases like America: History and Life. We have also begun to compile successful web tutorials from other institutions and from our vendors.
http://www.lib.virginia.edu/usered/tutorials.html
Goals / Assessment:
NA
Music tutorial borrows from U Calgary. (Music Library)
The Music Library, in collaboration with a Music Dept. faculty member, has developed an online research tutorial using the WISPR approach created at the University of Calgary. The other libraries in the Arts and Media group at UVA will be adapting this approach to developing online research tutorials, when appropriate, during the coming year.
http://www2.lib.virginia.edu/music/instruction/musi205/topicselection/index.html
Goals / Assessment:
NA
Video-based tutorials to be developed for media technologies. (Arts & Media Libraries)
Video-based tutorials on media technologies are under development at all of the Arts and Media Libraries. These tutorials are intended as lightweight, easily produced presentations, available online, on a variety of media production topics.
Goals / Assessment:
NA
Refreshed medical student portal. (Claude moore Health Sciences Library)
Significantly updated our portal for Medical Students to be more relevant, timely, and useful.
http://www.healthsystem.virginia.edu/internet/library/wdc-lib/portal/somedicine/
Goals / Assessment:
NA
Bioconnector portal under development. (Claude Moore health Sciences Library)
Related to our collaboration described previously, we plan to develop a virtual door or entry for a suite of clinical and bioinformatics services for our "Bioconnector". These could include online toolkits or instructional packages and tools for researchers as well as online training.
Goals / Assessment:
NA
Blacklight “faceted browsing” open source software improves search experience. (Alderman / Clemons Libraries)
Blacklight, developed by UVa libraries, is open source software for searching the library catalog. Will be overlaid on top of our SIRSI catalog (VIRGO). Relies on faceted browsing as a means of narrowing search (format, collection, library, time period). Integrates digital library holdings with library catalog. Reintroduces serendipity to search.
http://blacklight.betech.virginia.edu
Goals:
See above
Assessment:
NA
Google project revolutionizes access to immense holdings.
Through its Google Books Project, UVa Library will make selected books (potentially all of its 5.1 million volumes) available to Google for digitization. In return, Google will provide UVa with digital copies of any books in the public domain, thereby vastly increasing our digital holdings.
http://www2.lib.virginia.edu/press/uva_google.html
Goals:
See above
Assessment:
NA
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