1. Blazing Trails: On the Path to Information Literacy: lighting the path to collections through collaboration Brena Smith and Alison Armstrong, UCLA Library May 1, 2009

2. Background: HNRS101-I: Information and Research for Social and Behavioral Sciences Partners & Collaborators –Undergraduate Initiatives, a new library concept –Information Literacy Program (outreach to subject liaisons) –Undergraduate Research Center, College of Letters & Science –Academic Advancement Program –Future … capstones, fellowships & other long term research projects

3. Delivering IL Instruction @ UCLA Current line up: –Fiat Lux: 1 credit, 1 instructor –EC 123: 1 credit, 1 instructor, Office of Residential Life –SOC 10: co-taught by 2 librarians and faculty –GE Program: librarians liaisons, many courses, College of Letters & Science –One shots: many librarians, many courses, College of Letters & Science

4. Alignment with UCLA Library’s Strategic Plan Making specialized collections available –“[collections] are identifiable, accessible, and available…” Enriching services –“…high quality services that support research, teaching, learning, and the creation of knowledge…” Improving research skills –“measurable raise…student’s information competence” –“beneficial partnerships” http://www2.library.ucla.edu/pdf/UCLALibraryStrategicPlan200609.pdf

5. HNRS101-I Criteria Our mission: to create something different! –Need to meet the needs of several groups of students –Collections/Partnerships/Collaboration Across-library unit Across campus –Adaptable Sustainable

6. Course Design & Objectives The usual suspects: improve research skills and strategies, ethical use of information, etc. Wanted to emphasize: –Searching, accessing, utilizing documents from specialized collections –Deeper understanding of the collections, docs, services important to specific disciplines –Deeper understanding of issues that affect access to information

7. Course Design & Objectives Course structure –Each class session (quarterly, 2hr/once per week) –Weekly themes: From catalog to copyright and from books to data in the cloud –Required textbook –Utilizing the experts & the collections –Making it all accessible Role of instructor

8. HNRS101-I Assignments & course readings –Literature Review –Presentation –General assignments –Readings

9. Assessment Overall success of the pilot –Indicators Enrollment Time – effort Stakeholders Student learning –Indicators Pre/post tests Assignments/Final Literature Review

10. Assessment: Pretest Fall 2008 & Winter 2009 –Variety of ways students begin their research –Varying levels of difficulty utilizing databases/OPACs –About 50% (in both classes) could correctly identify definition of peer-reviewed journal article –Difficulty locating journal titles

11. Assessment: Post-test Fall 2008 –Administered at the end of Winter 2009 –4 Multiple choice, 1 open-ended comments Winter 2009 –Administered at the end of the quarter –3 multiple choice questions, 6 narrative, 1 open-ended comments

12. Assessment: Conclusions Final literature review –Synthesize ideas & identify contributions –Depth & breadth of research Use of documents and collections Oral Presentation

13. Role Playing Break into groups of 4 Assign roles Discuss, voice your perspective Report back

14. Challenges & Opportunities Sustainability & growth –Coordinator role –Guest lecturers –Adaptability Enrollment Fiscal concerns Collections Partnerships

15. Thank you! Alison Armstrong aarmstrong@library.ucla.eduaarmstrong@library.ucla.edu Brena Smith brena@library.ucla.edubrena@library.ucla.edu