Wednesday, March 31, 2010

Self-Study: Goals and Objectives

Libguides are temporarily on the back burner while we wait for usability testing, so back to the Characteristics of Programs of Information Literacy that Illustrate Best Practices. Maybe I should be calling it COPOILTIBP. We librarians love our acronyms.
The next step, after Mission, is Goals and Objectives. Hooray! We've done this one! Last year, we completely revised our learning outcomes. They used to look like this and this, and now they look like this. And yes, the old ones are still on our website. We're going through a major redesign right now, so I'm waiting to update until this section is restructured. So hopefully soon those first two links will magically disappear.
The thing about our new objectives is that they're not "done", nor will they ever be. We plan to update them every year.
The first draft of these objectives were missing the leftmost column. I showed that version to a campuswide committee I serve on, and some teaching faculty suggested we add this column based on the AACU VALUE rubric for Information Literacy (requires entering an email address to view). I think it's a great addition. I thought it was a great idea.
Next up is step 3, planning!

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