One week down

Just give me a moment to blot my brow; after the whirlwind week that I've had at my new job, as well as the first week in my new apartment, I've been run slightly ragged. The work week started out with a slue of meetings, with the entire public service staff, the reference department, and then with human resources. I've been assigned to work with a team of reference and instruction librarians to come up with curriculum outlines to present to the university faculty, as well as the deans and provost.

One of the wonderful things about the University of Bridgeport is that the faculty here are eager to incorporate information literacy learning into their own lesson plans, taking on the role of the IL instructor, within their own classrooms. Now, we're just left to create a product that they can use. This includes lesson plans using evidence based medicine techniques, exercises, and student assessment tools. The timeline for this project is approximately 6 weeks, at the end of we will be presenting theses materials to the entire univesity faculty, deans, provost and president at conference held in the Dupoint Tower Room in the Arnold Bernhard Arts and Humanities Center (the 'ABC' building). I'm going to be focusing on the assessment tools, mostly, including everybody's favorite - rubrics!