Anne-Marie Deitering

Anne-Marie Deitering is the Undergraduate Services Librarian at Oregon State University. She has been an active member of the Libraries Instruction Workgroup since she joined the OSU faculty in 2004. She currently serves as the library liaison to the Division of Student Affairs, OSU's First-Year Experience programs, Athletics Advising, the Academic Success Center, Liberal Studies and the English Language Institute. She is also a member of Oregon State University's Student Success Council where she is busy exploring the connection between the pedagogies of engagement, student learning initiatives and information literacy. As a co-creator of the Library Instruction Wiki (instructionwiki.org), she has also started to examine the implications of emerging technologies and the Read/Write Web for research instruction and student learning.

Jeanne Davidson

Jeanne Davidson is Physical Sciences Librarian at Oregon State University where her current subject liaison responsibilities include Chemistry, Chemical Engineering, and Civil, Construction and Environmental Engineering. She has actively participated in the OSU Libraries Instruction Workgroup since 2002 and has been involved in instruction projects since her arrival at OSU in 1994. Prior to OSU, Jeanne worked as Science Librarian at Augustana College in Rock Island, IL. She is currently Past Chair of the ACRL Science & Technology Section and will be co-chairing STS's new Information Literacy Committee.

Strike while the iron is hot! Bringing information literacy into campus assessment efforts

Anne-Marie Deitering and Jeanne Davidson, Oregon State University

session 1d/ Thursday, May 11 / 10:30 - noon

In schools at every level, teachers and administrators are under pressure to demonstrate how effective they are by showing exactly what it is their students are learning. These pressures have fueled campus-wide assessment efforts at schools across North America. Librarians at Oregon State University saw this as an opportunity to bring information literacy into a campus-wide conversation about what all OSU graduates should know. Working directly with faculty and other campus partners, we defined undergraduate information literacy competencies that reflect the links between research, life-long learning, discovery and critical thinking.

As a starting point, we adapted the Information Literacy Standards for Higher Education to fit OSU. In focus groups, faculty told us what they want for their students, confirming some of our assumptions and inspiring new thinking about others. In meetings with additional campus stakeholders representing a wide range of academic and administrative programs, we were deluged with suggestions for incorporating the competencies across the curriculum.

Our final product includes both general and disciplinary competencies and outcomes. Outcomes are mapped to the competencies and tied to a curricular framework, providing us with a backbone for program assessment. An unexpected benefit to the process is recognition across campus of the expertise librarians bring to assessment and teaching efforts.

In this presentation, attendees will hear about our experiences and discuss: *How to identify and develop relationships with key campus partners *How to start campus conversations and keep them going *How to use focus groups to talk to teaching faculty *How to move from general competencies to an articulated IL instruction program