Mission and Goals

Mission

• The Perkins Library System’s Instruction and Outreach Department supports the University’s commitment to inquiry-based education and interdisciplinary research and teaching, as well as the Library’s mission to promote information literacy and lifelong learning.
• We serve as educational partners collaborating with university administration and faculty in order to integrate information-seeking methods into the curriculum.
• The department’s instruction is focused on teaching students the critical and evaluative responsibilities of information use in their academic research and in their personal and intellectual development.
• The department’s outreach initiatives promote library services that advance the understanding of the role of research libraries, information literacy, and scholarship to diverse populations and users outside of credit-based courses.

Core Functions

1. Manage and coordinate programmatic information literacy activities such as instruction for the first year writing program, FOCUS, and LibGuides.
2. Support and facilitate instruction done by library staff by: facilitating work with strategic curricular programs (such as Research and Writing-intensive courses), providing pedagogical support and training, coordinating instruction assessment activities, and managing instruction infrastructure.
3. Coordinate instructional, non-course related, outreach activities.

2010-2011 Annual Report