Table 3.9: Fall Faculty Retreat Attendance Year 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009
Attendance 69 72 68 65 55
3.2.6 Instructional Support Services Briggs Library, Instructional and Media Technologies, and Computing Services provide support and resources to the educational programs of the campus. 3.2.6.1 Rodney A. Briggs Library Briggs library provides assistance for many kinds of instruction through formal group instruction sessions, distributed tools (such as EndNote), desk-side assistance, and web-based guides. The library offers in-house workshops on new databases and also partners with Computing Services and Media Services in training and workshop opportunities for the campus community. Over the years the approach varies from noon hour “Lunch ‘n Learns” to late afternoon “Fireside Technology” sessions. There is usually an annual event that showcases campus technology applications as well. The library makes available discipline specific databases, multi-disciplinary electronic works and technological tools. An example of the latter is EndNote that is provided for the entire campus. As it was introduced, the library sponsored many training sessions and welcomed individual desk side coaching requests to facilitate effective use of this bibliographic management software. The library offers reference assistance in a variety of venues: face to face (either making office calls or face to face assistance in the library); instant messaging; e-mail; or phone. Librarians solicit faculty input in the maintenance of online topical listings of electronic and print resources. Research QuickStart pages are linked to the library’s Web site, where individual Web pages are created and updated for all UMM majors as well as general topics such as Laws and Legislation, Minnesota, Agriculture and others. Course Web pages can be set up within the same software application or faculty can link to the appropriate Research QuickStart pages from individual course pages. Each discipline at UMM has one of the five librarians designated as library liaisons to facilitate communication about Research QuickStart sources, collection development
and other library services. Each discipline is given an annual allocation and is encouraged to assist in library collection development. Additional examples of how pedagogical information is shared by Briggs library: Briggs Library welcomes opportunities to teach information literacy and research strategy sessions for individual classes. All First-Year Seminar sections spend at least two class periods in the library for introductory research skills sessions (see http://www.morris.umn.edu/ library/infolit.php). The instruction coordinator also provides discipline-specific sessions and often participates in a more integrated fashion in capstone and senior research courses. The concept of the “embedded librarian” has been used effectively in a number of courses to integrate research practices throughout the class. Briggs Library also offers course reserve services with electronic reserve utilization increasingly popular each year. A number of faculty still utilize the traditional print reserve for class use of books, CDs, DVDs, videos and realia (e.g., a collection of rock specimens for a geology class). The staff and resources of Briggs Library work effectively as faculty/ instructor partners in research and teaching, and assist in making sense of the ever-changing world of information gathering and synthesizing. The Library is open 94 hours a week; additionally the Library provides electronic access 24 hours a day. Librarians provide instant message text messaging support when the Reference Desk is staffed, and a link to AskMN Reference at all times. 3.2.6.2 Instructional and Media Technologies In fall 2009, instructional technology support that was formerly part of Computing Services was combined with Media Services to form the Instructional and Media Technologies office. This brings support for instructional technology such as course management tools and instructional design software together with support for technological tools that aid the teaching, learning, and research of the campus community such as classroom equipment, the interactive television system, and television production facilities. Usage tracking of equipment and services provided by Media Services over the past 10 years indicates a change in technology use. While the use of traditional projection type media equipment has decreased there is comparable increase in the use of electronic media. The technology Media Services supports has moved from linear tape based tools and materials to non-linear digital formats.
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