Staying Vital in a Time of Change
Afternoon Sessions
Service Learning: Keeping the Library Engaged in the Curriculum and the Community
Librarians are uniquely positioned to support faculty members as they create service learning courses to engage students with curriculum and forge vital community partnerships. Using projects implemented at Wright State University as a starting point, the presenter and participants will explore the connections between librarians, information literacy, and service learning and how these relationships directly impact the community. Projects include incorporating service learning into an undergraduate for-credit information literacy course and collaborating with faculty to link research assignments to service work in a composition course. Participants will investigate this emerging role for librarians and learn practical strategies for contributing to service learning curriculum on their own campuses.
Maureen Barry
Wright State University
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UNC Chapel Hill Campus in Asheville and Charlotte
Several UNC Chapel Hill Health Affairs schools are expanding or preparing to expand beyond the Chapel Hill campus to meet work-force needs. Students, off-campus faculty and preceptors are dependent on the Health Sciences Library for resources and services, including instructional support, in hundreds of locations throughout North Carolina. This distributed outreach model for clinical education is an important component to providing a better educational experience and preparation for entering their professions. The Health Sciences Library, through its liaison program and AHEC outreach, is developing programs to provide required off-campus support and resource access. The library is now developing a flexible model to provide library support to these new programs. We will discuss the challenges and opportunities for expanding to di-persed campuses.
Diana McDuffee & Julia Shaw-Kokot
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Learning Behaviors and Library Space
Hege Library at Guilford College is currently engaged in a set of planning activities funded by an LSTA grant from the State Library of North Carolina. The central theme of these planning activities will be envisioning a user-centered library and creating a collaborative learning environment. Hege Library is de-signed for the 20th-century user with emphasis on print collections and individual study. The library has the opportunity to re-envision how it can optimize space, services, and technology to meet 21st-century user needs. The focus will be to move from a "collections-focused" library to a "user-centered" library. This presentation will discuss how the library administered a "Learning Behaviors Survey" for the College with the goal of better understanding the existing learning geography of its campus and the place of the library in that geography.
Leah Dunn
Guilford College
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Re-visioning Reference to Improve the User Experience
The role of the reference desk, the Research and Reference Services department, use of space, and priorities of the subject liaisons are components of a cultural shift. In line with the Duke University Libraries' strategic plan, we have developed a multi-faceted approach to assess use of the print reference collection from March 2010 through May 2011. We propose to adjust the size of the collection based on our assessments, redefine the collecting and access policy for reference materials, and determine methods to promote use of materials in the collection. We also expect to reconfigure the space, as well as add tools or services. The first step in this process has been to work within our local consortia on a single copy program for collaborative review of reference materials. This has been a constructive catalyst and pilot for the evaluation of our entire collection by subject liaisons.
Jean Ferguson & Linda Daniel
Duke University