Information Literacy Team - Information Literacy Web Page | About our Program

Guidelines for Orienting New Faculty and Staff
to the Information Literacy Program and Team (DRAFT)

The Instruction Services Librarian will provide an overview of team activities:

• New members of the information literacy team meet with Instruction Services Librarian
  • Student learning in IL across the curriculum and collaboration with discipline faculty are emphasized
• Copies are provided of the following policies and other informational items:
  • Information literacy program web site
  • Information literacy team intranet page
  • Instruction Faculty Performance Expectations 
  • Evaluation Criteria: Instruction Service
• Instruction Services Librarian encourages new employee to be involved in team activities
• Instruction services librarian encourages new employee to ask questions and to feel free to communicate as needed with the entire team
• Instruction Services Librarian explains information literacy data collection procedures

The University Librarian encourages and regularly extends financial support for continuing education activities, on and off campus, for all information literacy team members, and especially for new team members, as funds are available. Continuing education opportunities are planned in the library each semester. In addition, Instruction faculty/staff are expected to attend continuing education activities outside of the library and off campus through the following regularly scheduled activities:

• ALA, ACRL, ULA and UALC information literacy and instruction related events
• Teaching, learning and assessment events through AACU, AAHE, Educause, EdMedia 
• Other international, national, regional and local professional conferences and workshops relating to information literacy and/or other appropriate subject areas
• Database vendor workshops as appropriate
• On campus workshops including WSU Teaching Learning Forum sessions, CATS workshops, etc.
• Other events of interest to the new faculty members subject liaison work

The information literacy team intranet provides multiple suggestions and resources for teaching tips and other online tools to enhance teaching. 

Library faculty and members of the information literacy team are expected to share teaching plans, pedagogies, assessments, materials and curriculum and other ideas broadly and appropriately with new faculty. All LibSci course syllabi and many other teaching materials are on the Web and on the team Intranet. In addition new faculty are invited by all members of the team to observe class sessions of others as needed. 

New faculty are encouraged to report on how their assessments have increased student learning and on any instruction related continuing education activities in their annual Faculty Activity Report. Faculty are encouraged to regularly share new information and scholarly activities with their colleagues

Last modified 10/09/2006 .  Please send comments to Carol Hansen, Instruction Services Librarian