Information Literacy Update:
Accomplishments and Initiatives
Lisa Janicke Hinchliffe
Coordinator for Information Literacy Services and Instruction
Office of Services, University Library
February 16, 2005
Scope of Considerations
 solidify and enhance the critical juncture between the library
and the university curriculum as a whole
 will foster a climate at the campus level to make information
literacy part of the entire curriculum
 lead and coordinate the planning, implementation and
evaluation of a campus-wide information literacy program;
 be an advocate for information literacy and library user
education, both within and beyond the library;
 design and/or strengthen the infrastructures (organizational,
physical, and policy) that support information literacy
initiatives;
 build and strengthen collaborative partnerships beyond the
Library;
 nurture the professional development of librarians as
educators and serve as a resource person for library faculty
and staff in this area
Campus Connections
Office of the Provost/Undergraduate
Education
Student Affairs/Dean of Students Office
CITES-Educational Technologies
Center for Teaching Effectiveness
Cultural Engagement Council
University Librarian’s Student Advisory
Committee
Developing Campuswide Program
 Planning for in Context of Strategic Planning
(with User Education Committee)
 Library Fall Festival
 University 101
Campus Implementation Committee
Spring/Summer Library Implementation Group
 Work with Individual Librarians
Major/Minor and Graduate Programs
UGL – Programmatic Composition I Focus
“Take Us to School” Project
 ISCC-PET
Infrastructure – UGL Room 291+
Fall 2002 – prioritized need (Division
meetings): hands-on classroom in
Main/Undergraduate Libraries
Spring 2004 – proposal to Provost and
funding allocated
Spring 2005 – detailed planning
Summer 2005 – construction Fall 2005 –
available for instruction
Infrastructure – Other
Classroom-on-Wheels Proposal
Card Catalog Shift + User Space Creation
and Furnishing
Possible Software Solutions for “Grouping”
Sets of Public Workstations
Library Statistics Website (v 1.0) –
Working with Systems for v 2.0
Improvements
Staffing + Professional Development
 New Faces
Susan Avery, UGL Instructional Services Librarian
Dawn Schmitz, CLIR PostDoc for Digital Information
Literacy
Campus Funding for University 101 Support - Includes
Graduate Student Hours
 Teaching Alliance
Classroom Assessment Techniques (two kinds of
sessions)
Effective Lecturing
Academic Integrity/Plagiarism
 New Librarians Orientation to Information
Literacy and Instruction
Internal Library Advocacy/Integration
 Federated Search Pilot Project Implementation
Team
 ORR/TDnet Implementation
 Electronic Resources Work Group
 Integrated System Coordinating Committee
 Services Advisory
 Electronic Database Analysis Work Group
 Current Contents/WOS Connect Work Group
 Teaching various instruction sessions
Professional Connections
University of Toronto Collaboration Visit
ACRL, LOEX and WILU Conferences
CIC Library Learning Space Conference
Innovations Underway
Library Toolbar
RefWorks Pilot
VILLAGE (Virtual Information Literacy
Learning and Growing Environment)
CPS Graduate Assistant Teaching Team
Priorities from spring 2005 division
meetings?
Questions? Comments?
Lisa Janicke Hinchliffe
ljanicke@uiuc.edu