Bsbwor501 Goal 1
Goal 1: Promote library resources and services to wider audience
The Sonoma State University Library has many non-student individuals visiting campus daily who could benefit from the library’s services. For example, a high school is located on the SSU on campus, Oakmont Retirement community members attend free lectures, and neighbors who live nearby visit the campus for its scenery and concerts. Increasing library usage by promoting services to these individuals would have multiple benefits for the SSU library. As more individuals return to the library to use services, more staff are needed to create a stronger, more efficient library team, which also provides jobs for members of the community. Promoting library services to a wider audience …show more content…
Assessment. As they work to learn and share information, employees should feel more trust and empowerment in their jobs, resulting in less resistance to change and new directions. New opportunities for advancement and collaboration may appear, along with more appreciation and collaboration across departments.
Goal 4: Implement the Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL) New Framework for Information Literacy
Sonoma State librarians currently teach information literacy on an as-needed basis, generally when invited by teaching faculty in the university disciplines to demonstrate specific databases or research skills to specific classes. Instructional librarians would like to create a more formal curriculum around the ACRL board’s new Framework for Information Literacy for Higher Education, which describes six frames that underpin information literacy:
● Authority is constructed and contextual.
● Information creation as a process
● Information has
The Sonoma State University Library has many non-student individuals visiting campus daily who could benefit from the library’s services. For example, a high school is located on the SSU on campus, Oakmont Retirement community members attend free lectures, and neighbors who live nearby visit the campus for its scenery and concerts. Increasing library usage by promoting services to these individuals would have multiple benefits for the SSU library. As more individuals return to the library to use services, more staff are needed to create a stronger, more efficient library team, which also provides jobs for members of the community. Promoting library services to a wider audience …show more content…
Assessment. As they work to learn and share information, employees should feel more trust and empowerment in their jobs, resulting in less resistance to change and new directions. New opportunities for advancement and collaboration may appear, along with more appreciation and collaboration across departments.
Goal 4: Implement the Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL) New Framework for Information Literacy
Sonoma State librarians currently teach information literacy on an as-needed basis, generally when invited by teaching faculty in the university disciplines to demonstrate specific databases or research skills to specific classes. Instructional librarians would like to create a more formal curriculum around the ACRL board’s new Framework for Information Literacy for Higher Education, which describes six frames that underpin information literacy:
● Authority is constructed and contextual.
● Information creation as a process
● Information has