1. CONUL Teaching and Learning Sub Committee
Progress Report and 3 Year plan
Mary Antonesa
NUIM
(Chair)

2. Purpose
Standing committee to investigate the role of libraries in teaching and learning
Standing committee rather than “task and finish”
Position library as partners in the teaching and learning focus of our institutions

3. Positionality
Very exciting times in teaching and learning developments
Information Literacy is evolving
Changing our emphasis from IL to a wider teaching and learning remit
More holistic and focused on wider university teaching and learning strategies

4. New opportunity
This standing committee while building on existing work has a new opportunity to consider our wider teaching and learning responsibilities

5. What are we doing?
We aim to review our institutional teaching and learning agendas and identify opportunities for our libraries to partner in these.

6. Critical focus
What added value can we bring to teaching and learning at our institutions?
How do we ensure we deliver on this?

7. Terms of Reference
Identify, understand and measure the value and role, both current and future, of libraries in teaching and learning within Higher Education.
Build strategies to position the library at the heart of the student experience
Collaborate more closely with academic and support services colleagues in achieving this goal

8. Achievements to date
Built on work of Advisory Committee on Information Literacy
Ran successful and popular seminar annual IL seminar “one of the better seminars I have attended” (2013 feedback)
Fostered IL initiatives to support organisational strategy:  LIST (NUIM); First 7 Weeks (UL); Generation 21 (DCU) , HITS (TCD) and STEERS (DIT)
Forum to collaborate and share between libraries
Integrating IL into the curriculum (2011)
Nationwide IL survey from 2012/13

9. Three Year Strategic Objectives; 2013-2016
Monitor trends
Professional Development
Advocacy and promotion
Collaboration

10. Monitor trends
Identify and share the key strategies and objectives of our institutions that focus on the student experience: graduate attributes, skills set and employability
Collectively review opportunities for libraries to contribute to the delivery of these objectives.
Consider impact of digital, media, and other literacies and their role in the teaching and learning including implications for online (MOOCs etc) and more traditional learning initiatives.

11. Professional Development
Continue to organise and run our popular annual seminar : consider the potential of an annual Library Teaching and Learning award for innovative library teaching practices, to be presented at this seminar
Explore assessment and metrics in teaching and learning and examine how we could harness these to demonstrate the value of library staff involvement in wider institutional teaching and learning
Deploy social media to inform and educate library professionals and managers on CPD activities, trends, articles and reports. #CONUL
Assess the strengths and weaknesses of the library teaching experience and collectively identify current or emerging skills gaps, identifying Train the Trainer opportunities and making training recommendations to ANLTC

12. Advocacy and promotion
Continue to liaise and build relationships with relevant committees such as other CONUL sub-groups, Academic Teaching and Learning groups, international groups such as SCONUL, etc. and develop further networks where appropriate

13. Collaboration
This committee could consider options for hosting and sharing material for all colleagues in teaching and learning by reviewing shared online working environment options or other approaches to sharing

14. Next step Begin to map and prioritise work plan
Gather information on key teaching and learning initiatives
Build up a snapshot of current provision, where there is overlap, where there are gaps, etc
Share collaboratively within our group and beyond
Present on CONUL website for comment

15. Membership Mary Antonesa NUIM (Chair) Grainne McCabe RCSI ( Treasurer)
Siobhan Dunne DCU ( Web editor)
Brian Gillespie DIT
Peter Hickey UCD
Monica Crump NUIG
Ronan Madden UCC
Liz Dore UL
Isolde Harpur TCD

16. Thank You!