3 sessions in this 1 1/2 hour slot:
1. Open Communication: Working with Faculty to Integrate IL into a New Baccalaureate Program
When a BSN program was added to his university in 2010, this Florida university library saw an opportunity for the library to increase cooperation with the faculty. Cooperation involved inviting the nursing faculty in for database vendor training sessions, planning orientations using the faculty's syllabi, and even creating an IL rubric mapped onto the BSN program.
The rubric was created especially in preparation for a SACS review (accreditation) for the nursing program.
Among the IL activities incorporated into the Gen Ed curriculum:
1. Locate/summarize articles related to nursing theory from databases
2. Use evidence-based professional nursing literature to write a research paper with a description and case study analysis.
3. Use the library catalog to locate books
Interestingly, it sounds like this program is quite well funded from the beginning, including library resources. They have R2 and Springer.
2. Encouraging Faculty Buy-In to the QEP Through Incentives
This session was one of my least favorites, mainly because it was presented from a completely foreign perspective. The presenter was the director of the department that awards grants to IL programs at North GA.
He spoke about the importance of IL culture-building, and how the best way to do that was to offer money, specifically in the form of $1000 for a good idea. Some of the recent awards went to screencasting projects, undergrad research, community engagement, and co-curricular projects. Would have been interesting to know more specifics of the projects, though I know his focus was only on the initial proposal of each idea.
3. Exploring How Students, Instructors, and Professors at a Higher Education Institute Define IL
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