CONESTOGA COLLEGE INFORMATION LITERACY PROJECTS AND PROGRAMMING Chris

CONESTOGA COLLEGE INFORMATION LITERACY PROJECTS AND PROGRAMMING Chris Woodley, B. Ed. , M. L. I. S. Program Liaison – School of Business, School of Media and Design Conestoga College

WHAT I’LL COVER: • Our College Context • IL Statistics • Our Information Literacy Plan • Focus on Classroom Engagement • Focus on Online Delivery • Institutional-level projects • Summer Projects

OUR COLLEGE CONTEXT Full-time Students: 9, 000 Apprenticeship Students: 4, 000 Part-time Students: 35, 000 40 per cent of all adults in the Waterloo Region have taken at least one course at Conestoga. 53 per cent of all healthcare professionals (excluding physicians) in Waterloo Region have been trained by Conestoga offers more than 120 full-time diploma programs, 26 apprenticeship programs, 9 four-year bachelor degree programs, 23 graduate certificate programs and more than 130 part-time programs. Conestoga has campuses in Kitchener, Waterloo, Guelph, Stratford, Ingersoll and a new campus in Cambridge across the 401 from Doon Campus. OUR LIBRARY 3 supervisory staff, 12 full-time support staff, 4 part-time support staff. 4 liaisons have IL responsibilities.

IL STATISTICS 7000 300 IL Session Statistics 6000 250 200 4000 Number of sessions Number of Students 5000 150 Students 3000 Sessions 100 2000 50 1000 0 0 2007 -2008 -2009 -2010 Year 2010 -2011

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OUR IL PLAN HOW IT HAS HELPED US, WHAT WE HAVE LEFT TO DO, WHERE SHOULD WE GO NEXT • Collaboration relationship-building and outreach • Inclusive Service other campuses • Continuous Improvement quality and amount of instruction • • Integration Online Support http: //www. conestogac. on. ca/lrc/services/comprehensiveliteracy. pdf

SUCCESSES • Greatly increased staff cooperation and sharing through IL meetings • Perceived improvement of our quality of sessions through organization and PD. • Increased involvement / relationships with faculty that have translated into more IL sessions • Increased number of IL sessions • Expansion of services to other campuses • Resource-specific tutorials and ANGEL modules

OPPORTUNITIES FOR IMPROVEMENT The Not-So-Good • curriculum integration • online IL skills tutorials or course • evaluation • drop-in sessions • Office hours at other campuses

WHAT’S NEXT • New IL Plan • New goals / Assess old goals /Revise old goals

FOCUS ON CLASSROOM ENGAGEMENT • Kinesthetic APA exercise • CRAAP Test • Community Services Collaborative Exercise • Business Research Library-based Scavenger Hunt • APFM Studio 7

APA KINESTHETIC EXERCISE

CRAAP TEST RATING EXERCISE

COMMUNITY SERVICES – LAB-BASED COLLABORATIVE LEARNING EXERCISE Explore the Catalogue What kind of resources can you find in the library catalogue? Find a book on [specific topic]…title, author, etc Where can you find the book? How can you place hold on a book if it is signed out? Can you find a video on the same topic? Where is the video located? Can you find an e-book on the same topic? How would you access this e-book from catalogue?

BUSINESS RESEARCH LIBRARY-BASED COLLABORATIVE EXERCISE • Students come to the library, work in groups • Like a “Scavenger Hunt” – much of the exercise was retrieval of facts • Latest version modified to allow students the option to search for information related to their own business plans. • Exercise

ARCHITECTURE – PROJECT & FACILITY MANAGEMENT: STUDIO 7 • Capstone project - working in computer lab • Circulating among students as they work, listening and learning about their projects • Next term: expansion of project • 2 instructional sessions • Lab-visits throughout project development, more direct assistance with information seeking needs • Participate in final project presentations

FOCUS ON ONLINE DELIVERY • Lessons / Tutorials in CMS (ANGEL) • Course-level research guides (Lib. Guides) • Resource-specific tutorials

EMBEDDING IN ANGEL

COURSE-LEVEL RESEARCH GUIDES • Summer 2009 – online guides revamped and expanded. • Goal: a guide for every major subject area. • A place for every student to identify with • Summer 2010 – Transfer to Lib. Guides • Now: New guides are primarily course-level guides E. g. Operations Management • Used in classes as learning objects • Analyse statistics for use • Also need to assess applicability, usefulness

RESOURCE-SPECIFIC TUTORIALS • Highest use: CINAHL, General EBSCOHost • Video and print-friendly versions are nearly equal in popularity • Next steps: • Assess resource-specific tutorials • • Points of access format • Develop tutorials for specialized tools that are difficult to use and have little or no vendor-supplied tutorials • • • Ref. Works for Chicago/Turabian example E. g. Print Measurement Bureau Category Reports Reference Canada

INSTITUTIONAL-LEVEL PROJECTS • Computing@Conestoga • Faculty Teaching and Learning Website

COMPUTING@CONESTOGA “We’ll cover the Conestoga specific computing information you need to know to get started. This hands-on session will include how to login to the computers, the Student Portal, your email, and the Library resources. We’ll also tell you what you need to know about printing, saving, laptops, wireless, and where to get help. ”

FACULTY TEACHING & LEARNING Current Professional Development page: http: //www. conestogac. on. ca/facultystaff/pd. jsp Current LRC page: http: //www. conestogac. on. ca/lrc/faculty/ New BETA version: • Single place for faculty to seek out answers to common questions • From Department-based to Functional/question-based • https: //myconestoga. ca/web/tlc/welcome

SUMMER PROJECTS • • Teaching & Learning faculty website Online video tutorials Style guides review (with the Writing Centre) E 3 presentations (college-based professional development week)

STYLE GUIDES • Collaboration with Writing Services • Lib. Guide page • Separate services, same message to students • Meet every term to discuss issues that we’ve encountered, revise documents, share resources • Next: Citation Tutorials needed

E 3 - EMPLOYEES FOR EXCELLENCE IN EDUCATION CONFERENCE Outreach / relationship building with college community • Googling for Academic Research (Google Scholar and the LRC) • RSS and Twitter: an Introduction • Finding Media: Image, Audio & Video Resources

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