Here is the updates and progress of my internship so far.
Progress:
I have completed the initial assessment of the BANC and RPS data. We wanted to make sure the questions and data were valid and could be used to generalize what Berea college students think and understand about information literacy even with the small response size the survey experienced. The RPS data included national data from other small colleges in the United State. I compared the data in multiple ways and found that the Berea and National data matched, making the questions and responses valid for generalization for Berea students. (Task 1)
The next step, and what I am currently working on, is to see which questions are the important ones and what the criteria will be (like what are they getting that they should be, what are the questions where not one gets it, etc). The next step is to compare notes with Julia and make a final selection for which questions are important. The next step after that will be to decide what tools or ways can we use to get the information to the students and if other information should be down played. (Task 2 and 3)
The assessment of the data had made me research and discuss teaching and instruction with Julia. She has provided me with articles and books that have been helpful. They should also provide me with information to help in the analysis and design phase for tools and ways to improve instruction. (Task 1, 2, 3)
I have done a little work on task 4. I have been discussing and thinking about how to do a virtual library tour for the website. The next step will be to decide what in the library should be included and an initial design. I have not had a chance to look at the redesign of the whole website.
I went to the AIKCU conference and had some interesting things to think about and discuss form it (Task 5). In addition, I have been helping to test and compare he cloud computing in the library for the hardware/software upgrades later this summer. It was short, but provided me with information about how to look at users of the library and what they expect, as well as what kinds of technology is being used for that purpose. (Task 6)
Goals:
Personally, my goals are to help the Berea College Library through hard economic times by giving my time and effort to help them in any way I can. My goal is to help them save money and help bring the Hutchins Library into the future. In addition, my goal is to get as much overall experience I can. I want to get team work, managerial, and library experience out of this internship. The smaller goals set for the internship will provide me a way to accomplish this. I will be using assessments to revive and include changes to the face-to-face instruction, tutorials, and learning objects. I will be finding gaps in the student’s information literacy and reducing the redundancy. I will be reading and discussing teaching/instruction with my supervisor. The final goal is to help bring the Hutchins Library into the future using technology and providing the means to upgrade certain places where the upgrading of technology for the campus demands changes.
Task List:
1. Assessments of data from BANC (Hutchins Library Online Catalog) quiz and Research Practices Survey
2. Asses, design, and implement(?) a new BANC tutorial, as well as other, smaller tutorials for instruction. Especially when it comes to the question design.
3. Asses and research Learning Technologies that can be used for Moddle (Berea Class Portal) and Instruction
4. Help in the redesign and information architecture of the Hutchins website. This includes a new library virtual tour and taking the subject guides (and latter the website) to word press.
5. Go to the AIKCU conference in Julia’s place and bring back ideas and notes
6. Help assess the library’s cloud computing
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