Comments on: Teaching Students, Teaching Faculty

By: Lengthening Our (Out)reach

Lengthening Our (Out)reach — Thu, 02 Jun 2011 12:55:22 +0000

[...] written before about the faculty workshops we offer at my library. When we started to expand our offerings a few years ago we thought it would [...]

By: Maura Smale

Maura Smale — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 13:06:33 +0000

Thanks for these comments. I really like Barbara’s choice of words: creating opportunities for faculty to think about information literacy is one way to help integrate IL more thoroughly into the curriculum. What you’ve all mentioned that we haven’t done yet is add food to (most of) our workshops — that’ll be my next area of exploration (though a challenge, in the computer classroom).

By: Marilyn R. Pukkila

Marilyn R. Pukkila — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 17:50:47 +0000

We just began a Talking about Teaching faculty lunch series in conjunction with the Academic Dean. We’re hoping this is the beginning of a Center for Teaching and Learning to be located in the main library (the big plans were put on hold for the duration of the financial crisis). Our campus just went through a big curricular review process, so the dean wanted our lunch topics to reflect issues from that review. Fortunately for us, this dean is very familiar with librarians and what we do: the topic of the third lunch will be information literacy, and I’ve already decided to steal wholesale from a post on the ILI list, and model that lunch after a session someone described from their faculty workshop series. One reason I’m particularly interested is that our first years indicate, in the annual survey the libraries run, that they receive instruction on libraries in their classes — and we know that the classes they name didn’t have a librarian offering a session. So we know faculty are teaching about libraries; whether or not they are teaching information fluency is another matter!

By: Barbara Fister

Barbara Fister — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 19:26:21 +0000

Sorry about typos – not good at typing with thumbs.

By: Barbara Fister

Barbara Fister — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 19:24:48 +0000

Faculty teach information litercy, whether they call it that or not. We should try to create opportunities to help them think about how to do it well. Buy them lunch and have a chance to talk to one another and to librarians. There are interesting programs out there such as at Trinity, San Antonio.

By: Friday Link Round Up « ellie <3 libraries

Friday Link Round Up « ellie <3 libraries — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 20:26:50 +0000

[...] Teaching Students, Teaching Faculty [...]

By: Cathy Doyle

Cathy Doyle — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 16:21:51 +0000

I think that one of the main problems we face as information literacy moves into the mainstream is that we’re going to need to train faculty to take some of the load on this rather than doing it ourselves in fifty minute segments. So workshops like these and individual consulting will become more important over time.