libr 535: Instructional Role of the Librarian (3) -- course description
[previously: LIBR 569A - Current Issues And Trends In Library Services And Information Science: The Instructional Role of the Librarian]
Prerequisites : LIBR 500, 501, 503, pre or co-requisite: 502
GOAL : The goal of this course is to provide students with a set of skills and understandings that will enable them to design, implement, deliver and evaluate library instructional programs to individuals, small groups, or larger groups, including library users or library staff members. OBJECTIVES:
Upon completion of this course, students will be able to:
- list and describe the various components that comprise a successful library instructional program
- understand the historical context of library instruction and appreciate how historical developments have led to contemporary policies and practices
- compare and contrast library instruction programs in school, academic, public and special libraries
- describe and explain general learning theory
- apply general learning theory to library instructional programs
- describe and explain the principles and practices of adult education
- apply the principles and practices of adult education to library instructional programs
- describe and explain the principles and practices of instructional design
- groups with special needs – the disabled, international students, older students,etc.
- design, implement and manage a library instruction program for library users and/or library staff members
- design effective library instruction for individuals, small groups, or larger groups of students, faculty members or library staff members
- deliver effective library instruction for individuals, small groups, or larger groups of students, faculty members or library staff members
- evaluate library instructional programs effectively utilizing both quantitative and qualitative evaluation techniques apply the principles and practices of instructional design to library instructional programs
- search effectively for information in the form of monographs, articles and research reports in the broad field generally and in various sub-topics of the field.
CONTNET:
- Definitions of terminology in the field
- Brief historical overview of user education
- Current trends in school, public, academic and special libraries
- The management of user education
- Presentation skills for librarians
- Learning theory as applied to user education
- Reaching diverse groups of users with user education
- Adult learning theory as applied to user education
- Instructional design techniques
- Methods of delivering user education
- User education and electronic technology
- The evaluation of user education.
