| Initiative Title | Expand virtual services/resources to enhance the user experience |
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| Submitted in Previous Year(s) | 2016 |
| Critical Information, Notes, Justification, Rationale | The user experience involves listening to our user base, creating personal environments that support the specific needs of the student population which in turn support the retention efforts of the college. The mission of the campus libraries is to support students with research and assignments. This initiative will focus on melding the two efforts together focusing on developing library information literacy support modules and targeted short materials, using lecture capture, video, screen shots, etc. |
| Consequences of this initiative not being funded | No funding is being requested at this time. |
| Department Goals | Provide access to a full-range of information materials and resources. |
| Programs | |
| Locations | Main Campus, Newburgh Campus |
| Estimated Completion Date | |
| Will this initiative span multiple budget years? | No |
| Importance | Medium |
| Funding Source | |
| Created | 11/21/2016 11:07 am |
| Updated | 11/21/2016 11:31 am |
| Goal | How will the initiative support this institutional goal? |
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Studies have shown that creating a personal, supportive environment for students can lead to improved retention of students. |
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The initiative will expand student access to useful-helpful library research instruction. |
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This initiative will expand the delivery methods of information literacy content beyond the current methods. |
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The initiative will produce small, targeted components that students can access via blackboard or the library web pages that will provide information on effectively conducting library research. |
| Action Step | Responsible Party | Order |
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| Review the virtual projects currently in development and those that are already in use. | Director and Librarians | 1 |
| Develop a unified project plan to identify instruction areas to support, agreed upon terminology, etc. | Director and Librarians | 2 |
| Assign development responsibilites to librarians | Director and Librarians | 3 |
| Include training time for librarians in the variety of methods available (lecture capture, etc.) | Director and Librarians | 4 |
| Outcome | Order |
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| Increased contact with students through means other than the traditional reference interview and face-to-face Library Instruction | 1 |
| The availability of modules or small targeted information literacy components that can be embedded in libguides, blackboard, the library web page providing additional opportunities for library instruction outside the classroom. | 2 |
| Method | Description | Other Method | Responsible Party |
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| Tracking | Usage of programs, services, participation can be tracked; demographic information may also be able to be collected. | Information Commons Librarian |
| INITIAL YEAR COST: | $0.00 |
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| RECURRING COST: | $0.00 |
| Need | Cost (Initial/Recurring) | Supporting Departments | |
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| TOTAL: | $0.00 / $0.00 | ||
| Need | Cost (Initial/Recurring) | Supporting Departments | |
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| TOTAL: | $0.00 / $0.00 | ||
| Need | Cost (Initial/Recurring) | Supporting Departments | |
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| TOTAL: | $0.00 / $0.00 | ||
| Need | Cost (Initial/Recurring) | Supporting Departments | |
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| TOTAL: | $0.00 / $0.00 | ||
| Need | Cost (Initial/Recurring) | Supporting Departments | |
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| TOTAL: | $0.00 / $0.00 | ||
| Need | Cost (Initial/Recurring) | Supporting Departments | |
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| TOTAL: | $0.00 / $0.00 | ||
| Need | Cost (Initial/Recurring) | Supporting Departments | |
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| TOTAL: | $0.00 / $0.00 | ||
This initiative is not ready for prioritization.
| Date | Department Name | Status | Cost to Date | Funding Source | |
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| No results found. | |||||