LIBRARY INSTRUCTION MEETING

Updates & Reports: Eli M. Oboler Library – Idaho State University

Instruction Statistics – Fall 2011 Total hours of library instruction:

207.5 Total number of library workshops:

156 Total number of library instructors:

10

Last 5 Years: The Numbers

Fall 2011

Fall 2010

Fall 2009

Fall 2008

Fall 2007

Hours 207.5 224 216.8 224.8 279.45

Classes 156 186 179 175 216

Library Instructors

10 15 18 13 14

Last 5 Years: The Graph

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Fall 2007

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Hours ClassesInstructors

Spring 2011

Instruction requests coming in regularly

Invite your departments to bring their classes

Respond promptly to emails from the libinst account

COMM 1101 workshops

ACAD 1199: Information Research Started with more

than 20 students Ended with less

than 10 attending Marks given to 18

students

Grades Number

A’s 4

B’s 4

C’s 1

F’s 2

W’s 3

X’s 4

ACAD 1199: Information Research Resources Moodle course Google Sites page

includes: Databases Handouts Knowledge Survey Outlines Presentations Syllabus Tutorials Websites

ACAD 1199: Information Research – Spring 2012 Starts Tuesday,

March 6, 2012 Will keep it mostly

the same May decrease the

amount of required reading

LLIB 1115: Information Research – Fall 2012 Starts the first

Tuesday in August Once a week for

16 weeks Still in Rendezvous

computer lab Cross list with

ACAD courses? One section

offered

Tracking Non-traditional Statistics Tutorials Distance-learning

classes Moodle

Forums Development

Other types of instruction statistics?

Literature Bottorff , Tim, and Andrew Todd.

“Making Online Instruction Count: Statistical Reporting of Web-Based Library Instruction Activities.” College & Research Libraries 73 (January 2012): 33-46.

There is no real consensus for gathering non-traditional instruction statistics.

Research needs to be conducted Larger library bodies should take the

lead: ARL, NCES, et al.

In the meantime Distance classes broadcast to off-site

locations = count like traditional instruction.

When using Collaborate (webinar software) Invite students to complete evaluation

forms Count the number of students viewing

the live webinar Include with traditional

statistics

To Be Determined

Statistics for: Tutorials Moodle

management Moodle forum and

communication

Evaluation & Assessment of: Tutorials Moodle efforts

“What the mind is we’ll leave to the philosophers, but few would argue with the claim that we think with our brains” (12).

—Robert Leamnson Thinking About Teaching and Learning: Developing Habits of

Learning with First Year College and University Students. Sterling, VA: Stylus, 1999.

Spencer Jardine Coordinator of Library Instruction Assistant Professor Eli M. Oboler Library Idaho State University 921 S. 8th Ave. Pocatello, ID 83209-8089 jardspen(at)isu.edu (208) 282-5609