1. Presented By Judith Rogers, MLS Tanisha Mills, MLIS
Trends for Integrating Technology with Library Instruction: Extreme UVI Libraries
Presented By
Judith Rogers, MLS
Tanisha Mills, MLIS

2. Introducing: UVI Libraries
CVI chartered in 1962 ; became UVI/HBCU in 1986
Two libraries; two campuses; two islands
Merged with IT Department in 2005

3. Libraries’ Learning Technologies
“CLICKERS”
Student response devices
Introduced to UVI library/faculty in early 2009
Used in freshman information literacy sessions from Spring 2010
Increased attentiveness
Immediate assessment

4. Libraries’ Learning Technologies
BLACKBOARD
Course management system (CMS)
Utilized by ~70% of faculty
Prior to Spring 2009, library presence = tabbed link

5. Information Literacy on BlackBoard
Information literacy “course” launched in March 2009
Resource center evolved to supplement ‘one-shots’
Blackboard selected for ease of use
Organized by functional use:
Definition of Information Literacy
Instructor/Staff Profiles
Virtual Tour
Glossary
Library Lifesavers
Subject Guides

6. Information Literacy and the Library 101
Announcements
Content menu buttons

7. Information Literacy and the Library 101:
Content Areas
What is Info Lit?
Get to Know Us!

8. Information Literacy and the Library 101:
Content Areas
Virtual Tour
text link to glossary
Glossary
user is redirected to corresponding section of glossary for linked term

9. Information Literacy and the Library 101:
Content Areas

10. Information Literacy and the Library 101:
Content Areas
Subject Guides

11. Information Literacy and the Library 101:
Usage Statistics
User Traffic
1517 ‘significant’ hits for current semester
1180 users explored Content Areas:

12. Implications Why the disparities? Meeting/anticipating users’ needs
Extremely high interest in “What is Info Lit?”
Surprisingly low interest in other areas
Meeting/anticipating users’ needs
Expanding course promotion at points of need
More UVI library-specific material to be added 12

13. Summary Both efforts met goal of augmenting one-shot sessions
Content and service delivery must be focused
Library has potential to lead campus in learning technologies

14. CENTER FOR EXCELLENCE IN TEACHING AND LEARNING (CETL)
Promoting Library support for curricula through
the
CENTER FOR EXCELLENCE IN TEACHING AND LEARNING (CETL)
Bridge built through collaboration between academic affairs and Information & Technology Services (ITS)
Librarians’ role in collection development, & information literacy, blending with instructional design
Integrated Library & Academic Technology committee

15. In the beginning, there was a PLAN
The ITS 5-Year Plan for Curriculum and Technology Support - the foundation to develop the CETL & the avenue for Library involvement
The PLAN supports Strategic Planning 2012 initiatives:
Strategic Goal #1
To create a technology support
system for faculty and students to
enhance teaching and learning
outcomes
- Strategic Goal #2
To establish a training and
professional development program

16. As the PLAN unfolds
Use of Portal and Blackboard for IL asynchronous training
Building librarian skills to contribute to curriculum development and delivery
Streamline library collection development through CETL
Librarians responsible for Freshman Development Seminar courses
Clearinghouse for faculty scholarly contributions
Using Internet2 to supplement library resources

17. Imagining the future – ACRL’s Report
FUTURES THINKING FOR ACADEMIC LIBRARIANS: HIGHER EDUCATION IN 2025 Prepared by: David Staley & Kara Malenfant, June 2010
26 scenarios for future based on emerging trends, applications and user behaviors
At least four scenarios already here

18. “... our future is neither predetermined nor predictable: it is, rather, something which lies within our hands, to be shaped and molded by the choices we make in the present time”
(Mead, M. (2005). The world ahead: An anthropologist anticipates the future in Futures Thinking for Academic Librarians: Higher Education in 2025, by Staley, D.J. & Malenfant, K. J. 2010)

19. Questions?