Library Information for Faculty: Library Services and Projects

Besides fostering intellectual discovery by providing resources and services that support and promote the academic programs of the university, the Touro Libraries’ mission is to advance information literacy, the basis of lifelong learning, by helping students to acquire and refine information-seeking and evaluation skills. 

The main goals of the Information Literacy Services are to integrate information competencies into departmental teaching and learning plans throughout the school and to encourage the growth of an information-literate community through the following venues:

• The Embedded Library Program
  • Through this program, a dedicated embedded librarian can provide course and assignment-specific resources, provide assistance directly through Canvas, and/or teach one or more customized sessions in person or online.
• General as well as tailored and subject-specific library classes.
• Year-round library workshops and webinars on library resources and services.
  • Library staff teaches between 400-500 instruction sessions per academic year. These sessions, whether online or in-person, introduce students to the wide range of library resources and services available to them. They also focus on teaching students crucial research and critical thinking skills. 
• Library workshops for faculty members throughout the academic year and on Faculty Development Days.
• Online tutorials that address common library and research questions
• Promoting and introducing library resources through the library blog.
• Assessment plans to evaluate student information literacy skills.

• Alignment chart for the 2000 Information Literacy Skills and the 2016 Framework for Information Literacy (by Amanda Hovious) 

According to OER Commons, "Open educational resources (OER) are teaching, learning, and research resources that reside in the public domain or have been released under an intellectual property license that permits their free use and re-purposing by others. OER include full courses, course materials, modules, textbooks, streaming videos, tests, software, and any other tools, materials, or techniques used to support access to knowledge. Open educational resources give educators the ability to adapt instructional resources to the individual needs of their students, to ensure that resources are up-to-date, and to ensure that cost is not a barrier to accessing high-quality standards-aligned resources."  

For more information check out a collection of OER across disciplines here or if interested in finding an OER text for your classes, contact kirk.snyder3@touro.edu.