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How to Schedule a Library Instruction Session

The University Library offers a range of instructional opportunities designed to help students and faculty maximize their effectiveness in accessing, evaluating, and using information critically for a specific purpose.

Your subject librarian, or liaison, has expertise in the resources of your discipline and is able to tailor instruction to fit specific course needs.  You can direct any question you might have about the ULM Library or library research to your subject liaison.   Contact a reference/subject librarian to discuss your course instruction needs.

Library Instruction Program Goals

The goals of the ULM Library Instruction Program are to:

• Provide literacy-based, course-specific library instruction in varied formats to students, faculty, staff and departments of the University community
• Collaborate with faculty, administration and other university groups to integrate information literacy into coursework and curriculum planning
• Provide software workshops to increase information technology and computer literacy competency
• Develop instructional resources that address identified needs of learners
• Continuously assess the dynamic needs and expectations of members of the University community and modify programs to address them

What is Information Literacy?

Information literacy is a set of abilities requiring individuals to “recognize when information is needed and have the ability to locate, evaluate, and use effectively the needed information.  Presidential Committee on Information Literacy. Final Report. (Chicago: American Library Association, 1989)

Mission Statement

The Instruction Program of the ULM Library seeks to develop the information and computer literacy skills of students, faculty and staff at the University of Louisiana at Monroe.  To this end, the University Library’s Instruction Program teaches users to independently seek, locate, retrieve, evaluate and use information effectively and ethically for problem-solving.

The Instruction Program is developed in response to identified learning needs and through collaboration with teaching faculty and staff.  The Program provides individual and group instruction, course-specific, web-based and open workshop methods.

The Information Literacy Competency Standards for Higher Education from the Association of College and Research Libraries provide the framework for program development and instructional objectives.The Instruction Program of the ULM Library supports the missions of the University of Louisiana at Monroe, the University Library, and the Louisiana Board of Regents Statewide General Education Requirements.

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