Putting Your Philosophy into Practice: A Workshop

Brainstorming sheets from Karen Michaelsen's presentation at CLAMS/ACRL WA Spring Conference, May 1, 1998

Objective: Promote the instructional role of the library

Group 1:

1. Develop relationship with faculty
   • Liaison to divisions
   • Talk about how much we teach
   • Open house to faculty
   • Re-emphasize that librarians are faculty
   • Teaching workshop
   • Faculty development workshop
   • Visit faculty
   • Follow-up meetings with classes
   • New faculty
   • Build collaborative relationship
   • "Hook" the faculty
   • Departmental meetings
2. Promote instructional role of library home page
3. Use students to get faculty involved
   • They are excited about the Web and force faculty to modernize
4. Student organizations which are subject-oriented
5. Take a library quiz
6. Be interested in new pedagogy

Group 2:

1. Have division meetings in library--give presentation
2. IRC-instructional resources committee
3. Get self on committees, and insert/promote ideas
4. New faculty orientations
5. Blurbs in student newspapers and faculty newsletters
6. Orientations for faculty at beginning of term
7. Parties
8. Target certain classes and take time to pre-prepare assignments
9. Work on buy-in by Library Director -- need their promotion
10. Cross training for classified staff throughout campus
11. Web pages, brochures, signs, etc.
12. Bibliographies of core resources
13. Librarians also teach for credit subject courses in their area of expertise
14. Find ways to get our of your box, and represent yourself to the teaching faculty, through professional activities on campus

Group 3:

1. Participate in Orientation Week--focused activities
2. Invite ourselves to Div/Dept mtngs
3. E-mail
4. Meet with faculty one-on-one
5. Flyers to part-time faculty
6. Partner with campus leaders
7. Report success in larger meetings
8. Curriculum committee involvement
9. Be positive, self-confident, articulate, meet as peers
10. Meet with new faculty groups
11. Providing instructional opportunities to faculty

Group 4:

1. Create a good reputation through good service
2. Meet faculty from different areas (collaboration)
3. Attend different faculty meetings, colloquia, etc.
4. Serve on committees
5. Prepare staff to do instruction-bring them along with same vision
6. On-going assessment/review/reflection on how library is meeting needs of the students
7. Elicit feedback from students and faculty
8. Finding an especially interesting class or "hook" to get students interested
9. Getting the word out about workshops, classes offered, use campus newspapers/letters to promote instructional sessions

Group 5:

1. Reaching out to faculty
2. Attending/speaking at faculty meetings
3. Serving on faculty committees
4. Developing/trying LI techniques
5. Promoting/marketing LI
6. Communicating with students and faculty
7. Responding to faculty information needs (e.g. html)
8. Talking about research process as curriculum
9. Reminding faculty we teach
10. Participate in academic et al life of campus
11. Hold open house in library
12. Teaching effectively
13. Offer proactive service to students/faculty
14. Bring faculty into library as rotating reference
15. Talking about library as a classroom
16. By facilitating research process, essential to teaching effectively

Group 6:

1. Make personal contact with "approachable" faculty
2. Instructional improvement projects
3. Grant money (so library seems worthwhile)
4. Gain faculty status
5. Committee work -- curriculum, outcomes
6. Publicize success stories through others
7. Be able to articulate a shared vision (for similar outcomes) and market
8. Promote a risk-taking environment
9. Make technical support a priority
10. Participate in campus listservs
11. Network with colleagues from other institutions
12. Create faculty workshops
13. Promote workshops to faculty
14. Educating board/administrators

Group 7:

1. Liaison with different departments (each librarian works with 1-2 departments)
2. Memos/email describing library programs and requesting input
3. Contact with faculty regarding assignments (upcoming)
4. Linkage with 1-2 faculty members for ongoing instruction throughout quarter
5. Faculty workshops (departmental) to educate them about library resources
6. Work with "college success" course
7. One-on-one/small group walk-in instruction (on demand)
8. "Spotlight" feature prominent/dynamic Web page/site
9. Focus on one required course to make sure they have library skills/research