GETTING IN ON THE GROUND FLOOR

WELCOME From the Teaching & Learning Services team at Miller Nichols Library, University of Missouri – Kansas City Diane Hunter, Head of Teaching and Learning Services ∙ Fiona Holly, Graduate Assistant ∙ Barbara Varanka, Graduate Assistant ∙

OUR GOALS To communicate how we found a way to engage in campus-wide initiatives To share how we made our services relevant to campus-wide SLOs To provide you with ideas for how to make these changes at your university library, too!

A LITTLE BACKGROUND

BACKGROUND  History with campus-wide initiatives  Getting librarians involved with campus-wide decision-making  Operation: Consider Information Literacy  What are SLOs, and how did we help create them?

New Gen Eds Honors College University College Undergraduate Research Program

REORGANIZATION

 First of all, what is TLS?  What were we like before TLS?  Library-wide reorganization & construction  The birth of TLS  What does TLS do?  Creation of library-wide SLOs

Reference Department Teaching & Learning Services Research & Liason Services

THE FUTURE

What is discourse? How are we involved? How did we get involved?

THE FUTURE Discourse = literacy + orality

THE FUTURE Discours e 1 Discours e 2 Discours e 3

ASSESSMENT UMKC General Education Core Technology and Information Literacy Student Learning Outcome Students will demonstrate effective use of research resources and can incorporate the information obtained into their academic and creative endeavors. They will demonstrate their ability to locate, evaluate, organize and use research material from a broad range of sources. Students will be able to format and document source material in properly constructed papers, presentations, and a variety of visual formats.

ASSESSMENT How will information literacy be assessed?

REORGANIZATION Oneshot + 1-credit course = our new hybrid course

SKILLS FOR LIFE Our mission is to teach students lifelong information literacy skills.

TIPS  Be alert to campus trends – know what’s going on  Especially regarding broad campus curriculum and research initiatives  Get on the committees  If not invited, ask and make your case  If not appointed, ask if you can attend meetings anyway  If you can’t attend, how can you get updates, meeting minutes, etc.  Listen carefully when it doesn’t involve the library  You’ll learn a lot of other stuff that you can use  Speak up when it does involve the library, information literacy  Speak up if information literacy is being ignored  Make contact with individuals appointed in charge of new initiatives  Make yourself/your face/your name/your goals known

QUESTIONS ? Diane Hunter, Head of Teaching and Learning Services Fiona Holly, Graduate Assistant Barbara Varanka, Graduate Assistant