Lessons Learned About Developing and Coordinating an Instruction Program with Freshman Composition

In the Spring of 2001, the Oregon State University Libraries began planning for a collaboration with the university\u27s freshman composition program. In implementing this project, with no additional library resources, and with the majority of library faculty less experienced in working with freshman students, the coordinators of the program learned numerous lessons which highlighted both the steps needed in initiating and maintaining a new instruction program, and the functions and competencies vital to providing instructional leadership and coordination in an academic library. The following case study describes the process that the coordinators of this instruction program followed, and will discuss the important role that library instruction coordinators have to play in starting a new program of library instruction

Using the “ACRL information literacy competency standards for higher education” to assess a university library instruction program

Describes how the Oregon State University library used the recently published ACRL (Association of College and Research Libraries) Information Literacy Competency Standards for Higher Education as a framework for an initial self-study of instructional practices and for promoting the concept of information literacy. The survey used for subject librarians is appended

Lessons learned about developing and coordinating an instruction program with freshman composition

In the Spring of 2001, the Oregon State University Libraries began planning for a collaboration with the university’s Freshman Composition Program. In implementing this project, with no additional library resources, and with the majority of library faculty less experienced in working with freshman students, the coordinators of the program learned numerous lessons which highlighted both the steps needed in initiating and maintaining a new instruction program and the functions and competencies vital to providing instructional leadership and coordination in an academic library. The following case study describes the process that the coordinators of this instruction program followed and will discuss the important role that library instruction coordinators have to play in starting a new program of library instruction.This is the pre-print of an article written for a special issue of Reference Services Review with selected articles based on the conference presentations at LOEX of the West (Eugene, OR), June 2002.Keywords: Collaboration, Composition, Information literacy, Library instructionKeywords: Collaboration, Composition, Information literacy, Library instructio