1: Faculty
Promote Library to Faculty Other Information:
For a number of years the library’s information literacy program benefited from the college’s Bush Foundation Faculty Development
Grant, a deliberate program of continuing faculty development targeting specific areas directly impacting student learning.
In the final grant report evaluator, Dr. Susan Hatfield, Winona State University, described the information literacy portion
of the grant as follows, These projects were among the most successful projects in the grant. Augustana library faculty have
embraced this opportunity with great enthusiasm and success. Librarians have worked one-on-one with faculty willing to enhance
their classes through the use of technology. The results were multilayered. Library faculty found themselves integrated into
the life of the university more fully, while students became (as evidenced by pre / post testing) much more technologically
literate, especially as effective researchers and consumers of information. Faculty participating in the project are to be
commended for their willingness to take risks by sharing their classrooms and trying new approaches. Given the motivation
of the library staff and the widespread interest among faculty, there is little doubt that these projects will [continue]
beyond the life of the grant. We have seen increasing use by faculty of the library’s electronic reserves service (e-reserves)
in conjunction with electronic course management software (WebCT, Moodle). It is important to evaluate how these services
might be better integrated to enhance student learning experiences and promote ease of use. We recognize that faculty require
access to resources beyond our local and virtual collections. We want to encourage faculty to take advantage of services (Table
of Contents alerts, RSS feeds) which provide opportunities for periodic updates for journals as well as literature searches.
The library will continue to explore and acquire resources to assist faculty in the acquisition, management, and use of information
resources and investigate methods to integrate these services.
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