More Opportunities for Collaboration

Repeat business

Some faculty have started making a library session a consistent part of their syllabus and some have even designed assignments around a library component. 

Programmatic Approach

Some serious discussion has begun about implementing a more programmatic approach to IL - expanding on the foundation laid in English 102.  Some courses have emerged as gateway classes for certain disciplines, while others serve as capstone courses.  Both are well suited to in-depth instruction and continued faculty collaboration. 

The Transfer Student Question

Current Practice: if a student transfers in with Englist 102 or equivalent from another institution they are required to take an "Information Access Workshop" preferably in their first semester at Dominican. 

This 90 minute workshop is not attached to any course (instruction in a vacuum).  There is an assessment piece - worksheet handout - but it is not on the level of the annotated bibliography. 

Students has not yet figured out that if they fail the IL component in 102 but pass 102, they can take the workshop and pass the IL component without having to do the bibliography.  They will soon figure this out. 

It has been proposed and after a similar long process I hope that transfer students will have the option to do the annotated bibliography in conjunction with any research assignment of their choosing.  This is a more complicated matter but one we are trying to work out currently. 

Graduate School Collaborations

Especially with GSLIS!

LIS 764 students invited to observe instruction sessions.

Graduate Student Interns (GSLIS students) assist with Instruction and teach or co-teach English 102 sessions.

Assignment Collaboration with LIS 704 - intro to Reference

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