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Stewart
Library Policies Manual
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LIBRARY INSTRUCTION SERVICES
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| 9.1 Definitions |
Information Literacy Team - Library Faculty and Staff engaged in the following activities;
Library Curriculum Committee - Small group of Library Faculty appointed by the University Librarian each year to make recommendations to WSU Curriculum and General Education Committee. Committee membership includes University Librarian, Instruction Services Librarian and library faculty member serving on the Curriculum and General Education Committee.
Formal Courses :
LIBS TD HU1115 (Humanities on the Internet) 3
semester credit hours
LIBS TD 2201 ( Library Skills Resources and Research)
2 semester credit hours (Discontinued Fall 2007)
LIBS TD 1704 (The Internet Navigator) 1 semester
credit hour
LIBS TD 2704 (Information Resources in Business
Disciplines)1 semester credit hours
LIBS TD 2804 (Infromation Resources in the Social Sciences) 1 semester credit hour
Teaching Faculty - Faculty that teach formal courses. Formal teaching assignments are accepted by Library Faculty annually in consultation with the Instruction Services Librarian and the University Librarian.
English 2010 and FYE instruction - One infromation literacy instruction session is done by a librarian in cooperation with the course instructor for each section of these courses every semester.
Course integrated Instruction - Instruction sessions, often one hour, providing instruction for a particular WSU program, course, department, discipline or sub discipline. These are provided by Subject Librarians and other Library Faculty and professional staff at the request of WSU Faculty.
General Orientation Sessions - These can include other general instruction sessions. These may also include tours for community groups or visitors; and tours or orientation sessions for other groups such as faculty or staff that are not integrated within a specific WSU course or program
WebEvents - an online scheduling system and calendar used to keep track of all instruction sessions held in the library classrooms.
A. Formal Courses
Formal, for credit courses are scheduled each Fall Semester for the following academic year by the Instruction Services Librarian and the University Librarian, in consultation with the Library Faculty. These are posted as the Library Teaching Schedule. Additions, cancellations, and changes to teaching schedule are made by the University Librarian in consultation with Instruction Faculty and the Instruction Services Librarian. The Information Literacy Assistant may make additions and changes to the schedule prior to registration at the request of the University Librarian and the Instruction Services Librarian. After registration begins changes are submitted to Registration. For credit courses are listed in Banner, on the library Website and in the Web Events online calendar.
Other Formal Course Procedures:
Students who feel they need to test out of a course may take the Information Literacy Competency Exam.
B. English 2010 and FYE
English 2010 and FYE instruction will be scheduled in the preceding semester by the Instruction Services Librarian with assistance from the Information Literacy Assistant and the English Department and will be posted online. It is the responsibility of the team member assigned to present the English 2010 instruction to find a replacement if s/he cannot do it. In case of severe illness, see below.
C. Other General Instruction
Library orientation sessions and other general instruction sessions will be scheduled by the Instruction Services Librarian (with input from the team) with assistance from the Information Literacy Assistant by using the WebEvent calendar.
D. Course Integrated Instruction
Course Integrated Instruction is scheduled by library faculty with assistance from the Information Literacy Assistant.
E. Instruction Calendar
Scheduling requests for library classrooms 138, 59 and 31 must be made via the WebEvent calendar. A Web calendar (and print back up) for all instruction sessions, tours, and classroom use, is maintained by the Information Literacy Assistant, Reference Coordinator, or other designated person. All instruction sessions, tours, orientation sessions and library classroom use must be scheduled on the Web calendar. This includes walk around tours with more than four people in the group, as more than one large group meeting in the lobby or reference area at the same time can be difficult.
F. Guidelines for scheduling library classrooms 31, 59 and 138
G. Guidelines for "No Show", Scheduling Problems and Rescheduling
H. When the classrooms are scheduled by people not working in the library, the doors should not be opened until the person in charge (usually a WSU faculty or staff member) arrives.
All instruction is assessed according to instruction team assessment plans
A. Formal Teaching
Faculty submit final grades (for students) online according to campus calendar and policies.
Formal teaching (done by faculty) will be assessed by the University Librarian, in consultation with the Instruction Services Librarian according to the following library documents:
Library Science Department Student End of Course Evaluations will be distributed, collected and disseminated for every formal course taught, as follows:
1. Library faculty work together to develop the LibSci department student end of course evaluation form including any WSU required questions.
2. Student End of Course Evaluations are completed as follows:
Each semester faculty will require/request students to complete the Student End of Course Evaluation.
Each semester the library office will provide links to each faculty member to the online Student End of Course Evaluation form in Chitester as needed.
Links will remain the same from semester to semester unless a test is changed, or a new course or instructor is added.
Faculty using Web CT will insert the link to the Chitester evaluation into Web CT
These links may be given directly to students. Only students enrolled in a section can access the evaluation form.
It is preferable for faculty to leave the room while students are completing this evaluation in face to face sections.
Each semester the library office will gather data from Chitester, distribute the evaluation results to faculty and maintain a record of evaluations as needed for tenure and promotion.
Faculty will use evaluations to continually improve teaching and learning.
3. The University Librarian and the Instruction Services Librarian review the evaluations. A copy of the evaluation for each section of each course is made and filed electronically in the library administrative office. A print copy of the evaluation is given to the instructor.
4. It is the responsibility of each faculty member to maintain copies of original forms and evaluation summaries to use as needed for promotion and tenure review and documentation.
B. English 2010, FYE and Other Instruction - will be assessed by the Instruction Team member, and by the Instruction Services Librarian with input from the Instruction Team, English Department, FYE faculty and student web based feedback forms to continuously improve the quality of instruction.
C. Course Integrated Instruction - will be assessed by library faculty (as peer reviewers) and the University Librarian with input from WSU faculty and students for which instruction was presented.
D. Assessment and Revision of Library Curriculum - All Library Instruction curricula will be continuously improved and revised to maximize student learning
The IL team collects, evaluates and uses data on all types of instruction and instruction activities to continually improve the IL program.
A. Formal Instruction
The following data, and other data submitted, will be collected each semester by the Information Literacy Assistant and posted on the teaching schedule:
In addition, some semesters we will guage the enrollment patterns to see which sections fill more quickly.
B. English 2010 and FYE
Each month every Instruction Team member will submit their instruction data to the Infromation Literacy Assistant on the Excel Monthly IL data form . The following data will be collected each semester by the Office Specialist:
C. Course Integrated Instruction Sessions and Other General Instruction Sessions
The number of sessions, number of students taught, course and instructor for which instruction was done will be collected monthly on the Excel Monthly IL data form.
D. Classroom use (Calculated by Information Literacy Assistant)
Classroom use is calculated by the Information Literacy Assistant through the WebEvent classroom calendar/schedule.
E. Team activities
Information Literacy Assistant maintains supplies needed in library classrooms with assistance from Library faculty.
A. Formal Instruction
B. English 2010, FYE and Other General Instruction Sessions
Instruction resources and materials are developed by the Library Instruction Team, for the Team. Exercises and other handouts are copied and maintained as needed in classrooms by the Information Literacy Assistant.
C. Course Integrated Instruction
Materials and resources purchased or developed for other instruction, particularly classroom equipment, will be coordinated with the Library Instruction Services Librarian and the University Librarian.
The following forms are used by members of the Instruction Team