Medical Library Liaison and Personal Librarian Program.
(Cushing/Whitney Medical Library)

The Cushing/Whitney Medical Library offers a personal librarian program created to assist medical students during their four years at medical school. The program matches a librarian to each student, providing a personal contact for research and library-related questions. A personal librarian is able to recommend resources best suited for individual research needs, instruct students in new technologies and resources, and guide students to specific resources as their research and learning needs change throughout their medical education.

Goal / Assessment:

Under development/revision.

Mandatory infolit instruction for Architecture, History of Art, English, and History.

As part of the School of Architecture’s General Requirements, the Arts Library Research Methods Session is required of all incoming students. In this hour-and-a-half session, discussion covers various strategies to answer research questions pertaining to course curricula and topics by using tools such as the Yale University online catalog, architecture databases, image resources, print resources, and archival resources.

This session is also mandatory for all History of Art seniors writing their senior essay.

The History department requires two mandatory classes for majors:

• An orientation class focused on two skill sets essential for historians: performing literature reviews of secondary sources and finding primary source collections for original research. The history department requires students to complete this requirement by the third week of their junior year and/or before they can pre-register for a junior seminar.

• The Senior Essay Library colloquium is arranged chronologically and topically, for history senior essay writers. Within these general areas, the focus is on individual paper topics and finding primary source materials for students' projects, both in the Yale collections and beyond. Students' statements of intent serve as guides in designing the content of these classes, and instructors often bring specific resources and tools for individuals to these sessions. Follow up often includes e-mail, telephone calls, and personal appointments. Classes are offered in late September and early October of each year and participation in at least one colloquium is mandatory.

• A similar program is place for English majors.

Goals / Assessment:

NA

Intensive infolit training of TAs.

In innovative cross-campus collaboration, the Library offers a series of progressive, modular workshops to prepare graduate teaching assistants to teach their undergraduate students about acquiring, evaluating, and applying information effectively and ethically. These two five-part series (one for science TAs and one for a general audience of TAs across disciplines) are based on an amalgamation of the ACRL Information literacy Competencies for Higher Education to meet standard general education requirements, the Information Literacy Standards for Science and Engineering/Technology that address discipline specific learning goals, and the expressed needs of the targeted populations. These two modules include one 90-minute workshop per week and a complementary online component that utilize various teaching methods to address diverse learning styles.

Goal:

• Outcomes of this initiative aim to help TAs teach their students about becoming responsible scholars, life-long learners, and critical consumers of information capable of navigating the glut of information they face in the 21st century.

Assessment:

NA

Information literacy tutorials with quizzes.

The Science Library has created an online self-paced instructional tutorial designed to introduce the concepts and strategies that will help patrons become better users of information. The content, based on the ACRL Information Literacy Competency Standards for Science and Engineering/Technology generally, and supplemented by those identified for Higher Education generally, is modular, and aimed at general undergraduate audiences with opportunities to include advanced information, subject-specific information, and integrated testing. The Pre-Test is designed to assess students' knowledge before beginning the Tutorial. The Lesson Modules provide detailed instruction and are the core of the Tutorial. Subject-Specific Lessons provide information and resources for specific academic disciplines. To take full advantage of the Tutorial students should read each lesson thoroughly before attempting to take the Quizzes. Some Quizzes may assess students' understanding of information provided from previous lessons, but they will not be tested on any information provided in links external to the Tutorial. Examples provide more information about elements from the Lessons.
http://www.library.yale.edu/science/instruction/IL_Intro.html

Goals / Assessment:

NA

Digital Library Cross-Collection Search; DL/XC.

The Digital Library is a web-based image management and viewer application developed by the Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library to support their digital collections. Many Library digital images collections comprised of over 300,000 images are available for cross-collection searching using DL/XC including:

• Arts Library Visual Resources Collection

• Beinecke Digital Collection

• Lewis Walpole Library Digital Collection

• Art of the Book Collection

• Beinecke Photonegatives

• Beinecke Marinetti Libroni
  

  http://images.library.yale.edu/dlxc/

Goals / Assessment:

NA

Library collaborates to provide enriched course Web pages utilizing Sakai.

Classes*v2 provides the Yale community with a powerful, integrated set of Web-based tools for teaching, learning, and sharing information. For more than three years, Yale University has been involved in the Sakai Project, an initiative led by the University of Michigan, Indiana University, Stanford University and M.I.T. to develop a powerful online learning and collaboration environment. This online collaboration and learning environment includes:

• A syllabus creation tool.

• Announcements.

• Threaded discussions and real-time chat rooms.

• Course assignments.

• Online file sharing (dropboxes and Resources area).

• Course-related external links.

• Project sites for collaboration.

• A host of other online tools and online areas for sharing information.
  

  https://classesv2.yale.edu/portal/site/!gateway/page/!gateway-100

Goal:

• The goal is to create an integrated set of Web-based tools for teaching, learning and research that is not only superior but also compatible with existing information systems here at Yale. Yale's customized deployment of Sakai is called Classes*v2.

Assessment:

NA