Where’s the Librarian??

Expanding Beyond the Library Through Research & Technology Fellows

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Keene State College • 8 full time library faculty• 250-330 session per year until

spring semester 2014• Traditional reference desk until fall

semester 2014

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Have you ever been a Vanna ???

Sustainability

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Integrative Learning

Promoted by the intentional design of programs to facilitate students making connections between knowledge from multiple disparate experiences, concepts, or subjects and adapting skills learned in one situation to problems encountered in another

See report: Integrative Learning: Mapping the Terrain & the Carnegie Integrative Learning Project http://gallery.carnegiefoundation.org/ilp/

High Impact Practices

• First year seminars and experiences

• Common Intellectual Experiences

• Living & Learning Communities

• Writing Intensive Courses• Undergraduate Research

experiences• Service / Community based

learning • Internships• Capstone Courses

http://www.aacu.org/leap/hips

Research &

Technology Fellows

Training Program: Development

• Develop competencies and

expectations for tiers 1 & 2

• Create a modular course and

develop activities, videos,

and other learning materials

Training Program: Execution

• Students enrolled in Canvas

course and start training

• Most of the course is online; a

few key parts are in person

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Training Program: Challenges

• Tracking students

• No dedicated Info Desk trainer

• Student motivation to

complete the training

• Not enough face-to-face time

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“Students were engaged with the Fellow in a way I haven’t seen when we’ve worked with library faculty.  They listened better, they asked more questions, they participated more readily in applying the strategies the Fellow outlined— in short, they accomplished a lot more than students did in previous sessions and I think that’s absolutely because the help and advice were coming from one of their peers, rather than from just another faculty member.”

- Professor Steve Kessler

Research & Technology Fellows (and their mentors)

“It's given me experience with being on my toes and learning to help students with just the little information they give me and manage to create a whole drafts of papers. It's also open many doors for me in my department and is something I'm proud to put on my resume.”

What we learned

• One dedicated Info Desk

trainer (could be rotating)

• Required monthly meetings

• More face-to-face contact

• Assessment

Assessment • Reviewing data from LibAnalytics, analyzing

the questions the students answered at the

information desk (next week!)

• Designing formal qualitative feedback

mechanism for workshops taught by Fellows

(one-minute exit ticket)

• Gathered qualitative feedback from the

Fellows and the instructors who worked with a

Fellow

Where we are headed …

• Collaborations with the Center for Writing– Research & Writing Fellows for specific “linked” courses spanning a full year

• Training Research & Technology Fellows involved with Living & Learning Communities

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Elizabeth Dolingeredolinger@keene.e

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@grateflibrarianElizabethdolinger.wordpress.

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QUESTIONS ?

Irene McGarrityimcgarrity@keene.

eduTwitter:

@IreneMcgarrity