Stewart Library, Weber State University

Information Literacy Program
 Draft 2003-2004 Goals and Objectives

Draft 10/21/2003
(Discussed by Information Literacy Team, April 3, 2002)

• Each of the ten goals, and the corresponding objectives below each goal  are based on the ACRL Characteristics of Best Practices for Information Literacy. Although we are meeting the Best Practices Guidelines in most areas, each year the Information Literacy team selects action items to address priority needs within certain areas.

• Each bulleted item is a strategic action item for the current year. Following each action item, in parentheses, is listed who has the responsibility for that action, and when each action item will/could be completed. The following symbol will replace the bullet  when the action is completed

Sustaining Outcome:  Provide a comprehensive information literacy program for WSU students including, for credit, online and on demand instruction in order to graduate students with information literacy competencies.

1. Mission: The Information literacy team will maintain an up to date mission statement for the Information Literacy Program in order to clearly identify and communicate our purpose, priorities and partnerships to ourselves and to the broader community.
1. Mission clearly lists priority audience and partners for the Information Literacy program
2. Mission is available to public on Web 
3. Mission is consistent with UALC, University and Library Missions and with national standards.
4. Mission is reviewed at least annually and revised as needed.
   • Mission will be reviewed during Fall 2003
2. Goals and Objectives: The information Literacy program will maintain an updated list of goals and objectives in order clearly assign roles and responsibilities and to insure continual improvement of the program
1. Clearly defined roles and responsibilities are defined for each major goal
• Draft goals will be reviewed, revised and approved by team during Fall 2003.
• Goals will be reviewed annually by the Stewart Library Faculty Advisory Committee (University Librarian) or team will develop another option for wider university input. 
3. Planning: Planning for the Information Literacy Program will be conducted at the program, curriculum and institutional levels in order to maintain a wide base of support and share information about the program widely
1. An annual report will be published to assess and describe accomplishments of information literacy team and progress of Information Literacy program.
   • The annual report will include priority strategic action items for the coming year. (Carol, Spring 2004)
   • Faculty Activity Records will be used to document faculty activities including information literacy related professional development, scholarship and service. (Faculty, Spring 2004)
2. Documents describing the program and charting its evolution will be developed for the Web and reviewed annually.
   • Documents will be reviewed Fall 2003.
3. Budget information for the program will be documented by the University Librarian
   • Budget items will be shared with the information literacy team through the Library Council and faculty meetings (University Librarian)
4. Staffing levels and needs will be clearly defined by the University Librarian and the Instruction Services Librarian
   •   Teaching schedules will be placed on the Web and revised annually in October for the next academic year (Faculty and Carol. October 2003)
   • A Health Sciences librarian will be recruited and hired (Joan and search committee, Spring/Summer 2003)
5. Assessment data will be used to continually improve the program
• Assessment plans will be reviewed and revised as needed for each type of instruction (Team, Fall 2003)
6. Planning will include a program for professional staff and faculty development
   • Each member of the information literacy team will develop a plan for their professional development as part of their annual goal setting and/or will describe their professional development activities in their Faculty Activity Records or Staff PREP form. (Faculty/Staff, Summer/Fall 2003)
   • The Information Literacy team will plan and present an annual Spring workshop with Weber County and/or UALC Librarians (Team Fall 2003 or Spring 2004)
4. Administrative Support and Teaching Environments: The University, University Librarian and Instruction Services Librarian will provide appropriate vision, support, physical and online environments in order to facilitate growth and continuous improvement of the Information Literacy Program.
1. The University Librarian and Instruction Services Librarian will provide clear identification of responsibilities for the Information Literacy Program among classroom faculty, other staff and information literacy team members
   • Instruction Services Policies and Procedures will be reviewed annually by team and updated as needed (Team, Fall 2003)
   • Instruction Performance Expectations will be reviewed annually by team and revised as needed (Team, Fall 2003)
   • Faculty Evaluation Criteria for Instruction will be reviewed annually by team and revised as needed (Team, Fall 2003)
   • LibSci HU1115 will be added as a course meeting the Information literacy Competency requirement  (Carol Fall 2003)
2. The University Librarian and Instruction Services Librarian will continue to encourage collaboration with departments, rather than solely with individual faculty through subject librarian's individual goals and through Collection Management team goals.
   • Subject Librarians will share ideas on this throughout the year at information literacy team meetings  and through their FAR's. (Subject Librarians, ongoing)
3. The University Librarian will continue to value and recognize participation in the Information Literacy Program as institutional rewards are made available.
4. Appropriate physical spaces will be provided in order to support the Information Literacy Program
   • Assist in planning for new classroom(s?) (team Fall 2003)
5. Appropriate automation resources will be provided in order to support the Information Literacy Program
   • A new library Intranet site will be developed (Web Advisory Group, Spring and Summer 2003?)
5. Articulation with the curriculum: There will be clearly articulated curriculum within the Information Literacy Program in order to clearly communicate goals of the curriculum to students, faculty and administration
   1. The team will maintain list of priority information literacy competencies 
   2. Faculty will integrate information literacy skills throughout a students academic career in order to go beyond simple skills and to achieve higher level knowledge of information within disciplines
      • See goal 6a below.
   3. The library web site will display and supplement the comprehensive Information Literacy Program in order effectively provide all types instruction materials for students at all levels.

   4. Library Web site will provide access to for-credit course information

      • Web syllabus for each for credit course will be developed (faculty, ongoing)
      • Course resources will be made available via the Web (Kathy P., Evan and JaNae)
      • Faculty will learn more about WebCT and what is offered, when that is made available (faculty Fall 2003?)
      • An online gradebook is still needed for cross listed classes (team, WSU online?, purchase? Web CT 2003?)
      • Online student end of course evaluations will be available for every course. (SNAP implemented Jan. 2003, Survey Monkey may be used in 2003/04?)
6. Collaboration: information literacy team members will continually collaborate with university colleges, departments, faculty and staff to develop information literacy in order to foster communication and gather support for the program.
1. Library faculty/staff will collaborate with academic colleges, departments, and programs to plan and assess information literacy competency across the curriculum 
   • An instruction/information literacy plan will be developed for each academic department, program or area, developed collaboratively with the collection management team, chairs or other appropriate staff and published on the Web (faculty, collection management team, Spring 2004, ongoing)
   • The Library Web will be used to facilitate and promote collaboration and communication among library  faculty/staff and our partners. (WAG, ongoing)
   • A poster and brochures will be developed to advertise library services to WSUOnline students. These will be placed in each of the outreach centers (Richfield, Moab, etc...) and brochures may be mailed to all public libraries, as soon as library gets its "consistent" image. (Carol, Marketing team, library Council)
2. A comprehensive collection of instruction handouts/tutorials will be developed and maintained on the Web to support information literacy across the curriculum at WSU (Reference and information literacy teams, ongoing)
   • Develop  more consistent and user friendly interface for tutorials and handouts (WAG, Reference and IL teams, ongoing)
3. A comprehensive collection of course integrated, related and subject specific research guides will be developed and maintained on the Web to support information literacy across the curriculum at WSU (faculty, collection management and information literacy teams, ongoing)
   • Develop a more consistent format and user friendly interface for Subject Specific Research Guides (WAG and team, ongoing)
   • Add a suggestion form from each research guide going to bibliographers email. (WAG)
7. Pedagogy: The Information Literacy Program will adopt appropriate pedagogy in order to most effectively engage student learning
1. Pedagogy is active, diverse, multidisciplinary
2. Pedagogy encompasses critical thinking and reflection
3. Pedagogy supports student centered learning
4. Pedagogy includes active and collaborative learning activities
5. Pedagogy builds on existing knowledge that student’s bring into the classroom
6. Pedagogy incorporates variations in learning and teaching styles
7. Pedagogy includes collaboration with classroom faculty
8. Pedagogy relates information to ongoing coursework
9. Pedagogy experiments with a wide variety of methods
10. Library Web site incorporates the latest trends in available technology to support these and emerging pedagogical approaches
    • IL team will continue to work with WAG to improve the library Web site (team, ongoing)
8. Staff: The Information Literacy Program will have appropriate staff in order to meet the needs of the program and student body at WSU.
1.  There will be an adequate number of faculty/staff
   • Assist with hiring new faculty and professional staff in order to to increase numbers of faculty involved in information literacy team activities. By reducing involvement in Eng2010 and FYE's faculty would have more time for subject specific sessions. (University Librarian, team, ongoing)
   • Continue to prive adequate numbers of and support needs of adjunct faculty (Carol, ongoing)
2. Faculty/Staff will have appropriate expertise and experience as described in Instruction Faculty Performance Expectations
   • Faculty/staff will be provided with, and take advantage of, continual opportunities to take part in professional development and training, on and off campus, in Utah and beyond. Continuing education will be documented in the FAR and in the team annual report.  (Faculty, Carol, ongoing)
3. Faculty/staff will collaborate with university librarian, team leaders, graphic designers, distance educators, multimedia authoring specialists and classroom faculty in support of information literacy.
   • Programming support for information literacy will be provided (?)
4. Faculty/staff will engage in service and scholarship relating to their information literacy activities, subject specialization or other library activities in order to enhance their instruction.
• Service and scholarship will be documented in the FAR and in the team annual report.  (Faculty, Carol, ongoing)
9. Outreach: The Information Literacy program will identify key audiences, partners and constituencies in order to best meet their needs, facilitate communication with stakeholders, and to continually improve the program
1. Program activities will be communicated and publicized using a variety of outreach channels in order to reach audiences within the library, across campus and to the wider community.
   • A marketing plan (or priorities) will be developed/identified for the Information Literacy program within the guidelines of the Library’s marketing plan (team 2003/2004)
   • The Library web will be used as an important marketing and outreach tool (WAG Spring and Summer ongoing)
2. Information literacy team faculty will demonstrate an active involvement in campus professional development and training by offering, co-sponsoring, or participating in workshops and programs that relate to information literacy for faculty and staff
   • New faculty retreat (Art, Summer 2004)
   • New Student Orientations (Reference team, WSU Orientation, with our poster display)
3. An information literacy team member will represent the library and the Information Literacy program on the following faculty senate committees
   • Curriculum and General Education (Shaun 2003-2004)
   • Teaching, Learning and Asessment (Art 2003-2004)
   • Faculty Senate (Wade 2003-2004)
   • Faculty Senate Executive Committee (Wade 2003-2004)
   • University Ranking and Tenure Committee (Carol 2003-2004)
   • University Assessment Committee (? 2003-2004)
4. information literacy team members will demonstrate an active involvement in UALC or other regional or statewide organizations supporting the further advancement of information literacy.
   • UALC Reference/Instruction Committee (Janae 2003-2004)
   • UALC Professional Development Committee (Carol, Chair, 2003-2004)
   • UALC Distance Learning Committee (Art 2003-2004)
10. Assessment: Comprehensive and ongoing assessment practices will be implemented for both student learning and for the information literacy program in order to continually improve student learning.
    1. All assessment will be used for ongoing planning and program improvement
       • Faculty will report on how they have used assessment data to improve their instruction and student learning in their FAR's (Spring 2004)    
       • Information Literacy team will participate in Part 2 beta test of ARL/SAILS/Kent State information literacy competency multiple choice test (team, faculty, Shaun,  Carol, Fall 2004)
    2. All assessment will include realistic and practical measures
       • The information literacy competency requirement exam, TBE1504, will be continue to be improved based on student comments, authentication and validation, and with input from the TBE Department. (Carol and Shaun, ongoing)
    3. Assessment plans for each type of instruction will be reviewed annually in order to continually improve instruction. 
       • For credit student end of course evaluations will be evaluated annually and revised as needed (team,  Spring 2004)
       • All assessment plans will be reviewed each Fall (team Fall 2004)
    4. Program assessment will be directly related to the goals and objectives of the program
    5. The following tools will be used to assess the information literacy program
       • Assessment of faculty through the Evaluation Criteria: Instruction Service (University Librarian, annual review)
       • Team/program goals and objectives (team and Carol)
       • Team annual report (Carol and team)
         • Including data from the following sources:
           • enrollment data from Staars
           • from TBE (on exams)
           • from team data form
           • from  FAR's.
       • Graduating seniors survey (WSU Assessment committee)
       • As a part of the library wide biennial faculty survey ( ?) 

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