Promote Academic Engagement
Strategically engage with all aspects of academic enterprise.
- Organize meetings with new faculty.
- Creation of departmental newsletters.
- New Faculty Lunch
- One-on-one meetings, off-campus meetings
- Creation of New Faculty Tool Kit
- Library Tours
- Attend departmental events, presentations, seminars, and cultural programs.
- Faculty meetings, receptions, faculty talks, graduate student events, invited speakers, dissertation/thesis defenses, colloquiums
- SBU departmental graduations
- URECA
- Interdisciplinary research group events (Humanities Institute, etc.)
- Integrate into curriculum development activities.
- Active participation on curriculum committees
- Embedded instruction
- Co-teaching opportunities
- Collaboration with campus units
- Instruction/reference with student-athletes
- Seek opportunities to collaborate with faculty on research, embedded instruction, projects, and grants.
- SBOLD grant
- University Libraries Writers' Series
- WISE survey (forthcoming)
- Efforts to increase faculty awareness of research opportunities
- Personal librarian program with honors course
- Women's History Month
- Digital Humanities Open Mic
- School of Journalism data analysis
Promote services/expertise and enhance student engagement
- Make research services more visible and impactful across campus by developing LibGuides and increasing outreach efforts.
- Creation of new LibGuides
- On-site reference in Humanities and SBS buildings
- SPD digital badge
- WRDS training
- Electronic Notebook and other specialized workshops (46 events, 445 participants)
- Promote open access publishing opportunities, and open access resources and platforms through workshops, events, LibGuides, and directly with faculty.
- Scholarly Communication Roadshow
- Open and Free Education at SBU
- Open Access week
- Open Access Symposium and Prelec Lecture
- Liaisons depositing their research into the Academic Commons
- Enhancing Student Engagement
- "Let's Talk" Animal-Assisted Therapy- CAPS Counseling & Psychological Services
- Stony Brook Ultimate Frisbee Hang Out on Staller Lawn
- Culper Spies Online Scavanger Hunt
- "So You Want to Make a Tiny Book?"
- Pi Day
- Create Your Own Zen Garden
- De-stress Button Event
- #StudentStaffSpotlight
- Native American Heritage Month- NASO
- Rubik's Cube Event
- 24 Hour SNACKS- Finals Week
Assessing engagement
- Begin to develop assessment planning protocols and strategies.
- Conversations with Writing & Rhetoric and Undergraduate Colleges on developing assessment tools
- Utilize tools and data for assessment.
- Online Q Course assessment
- SPD digital badge development
- LibInsight Instruction & Liaison Form
- HSL Qualtrics Instruction & Liaison Form
- Use information literacy assessment data to demonstrate library impact on university achievement and student performance.
- Formation of Data Policy Group to determine use of assessment tools
- 21 student outreach engagement events, reaching 2725 students
- 42 campus-wide engagement events, reaching 3,350 patrons
Explore a variety of methods of engaging with faculty and students through diversified instructional activities.
- Develop creative and innovative delivery methods for library sessions and workshops.
- 590 AE events
- 9,505 participants
- 529 teaching hours
- Use of Adobe Connect
- Creation of Camtasia tutorials
- Use of join.me for database training
- Work toward becoming fully integrated into the SBU curriculum.
- Embedded instruction
- Undergraduate Colleges
- Honors College
- URECA
- Create a strong presence on Blackboard, LibGuides, and other university instructional tools and platforms.
- Q Course
- Updates to Libraries' homepage
- Links from departmental webpages to library resources
- University-wide online education committee
- Use the flexible spaces and furniture of the public areas to innovate with models of research services and teaching.
- New instruction lab in NRR
- Renovation of classrooms A&B
Build, Preserve and Provide Access to Rich and Diverse Collections
Promote collections
- Create awareness of subject-specific library resources.
- Course integrated instruction
- Specialized workshops, new resources and tools
- Implementation of trials
Develop Responsive Library Spaces for Diverse Communities
Conduct space assessments
- Conduct user surveys to identify collection, service, and space needs.
- Feedback form on new furniture
- Focus group with students on renovation outcomes
- Comments page on website
- Music Library Survey
Reinvent library space to enhance user experience
- Plan and design physical spaces to meet users' needs with flexible furniture choices and technology features.
- Creation of new instruction lab in NRR and renovation of classrooms A&B
- Scholarly Communications Center
- Special Collections Seminar Room
- New group study rooms and collaborative spaces
- Re-define public service points to optimize user experience.
- Consolidation of information desk in NRR
- Invest in virtual presence: develop website, repository interface, social media and digital signage.
Foster an Innovative Culture of Learning and Assessment
Raise profile of library faculty
- Develop a culture of research.
- Research & Writing Group
- Data gathered on library faculty research output
- University Libraries Colloquium Series
- Recent publications displayed on SBU Faculty Profiles
- Faculty Research 2015-2016 http://tinyurl.com/h2hfqsq
- Investigate library’s role in teaching SPD library science courses.
- Faculty collaboration on integrating SBU librarians into library science curriculum
- Build network with regional graduate library programs.
- New internship policy created
- Key regional library programs identified for recruitment
- Institute faculty development opportunities related to academic engagement and liaison librarianship.
- University Libraries Colloquium Series
- University Libraries Writers' Series
- Open Access Week
- Open Access Symposium and Prelec Lecture
- Women's History Month
- Digital Humanities Open Mic
- Music Concerts and "Art of Violin" Series
- Commit to interdepartmental learning by attending academic department symposia and events.
- Faculty meetings, receptions, faculty talks, graduate student events, invited speakers, dissertation/thesis defenses
- Colloquiums and symposia
Enhance knowledge sharing across library
- Create forum for knowledge-sharing.
- University Libraries Colloquium Series
- Open Houses
- Improv workshop
- In-house trainings
- Retreats
- Collaborate on interdisciplinary research projects.
- WISE working group
- STEM group
- Research & Writing group
- Co-authorship & co-presenter projects
