Teaching and Learning/Library Support for Education

The Library supports Yale's teaching and learning programs by providing energetic and focused leadership for collaborations among faculty and campus experts to maximize the integration of instructional technologies and rich collections of information. Library support for education also encourages the development of information-based research skills within the College and graduate curricula. Library teaching and learning experts, in collaboration with colleagues, regularly evaluate and continually improve the Library's collections, services, digitization activities and web presence to reflect the ways that faculty teach and students learn to navigate information resources in print, visual, audio, cartographic, and digital formats. Library engagement with teaching and learning also provides convenient access to personal assistance and online tutorials for developing self-sufficiency in identifying, retrieving, evaluation and using information, whether on campus or at a distance.

Yale faculty, students and staff engage with experts from service areas across campus, including the Library, ITS Instructional Technology Group and Academic Media and Technology, the Graduate School's McDougal Center for Graduate Teaching, the Center for Language Study, and Yale College and museums. Faculty, students and expert staff can learn more about using innovative pedagogical techniques, technologies, and library and museum collections. Through collaborative referrals and working together, these partners foster the exchange of knowledge and facilitate experimentation to improve teaching and learning. Such a collaborative enterprise makes use of teaching spaces, equipment, and meeting rooms, as well as providing informational series such as the highly successful "Teaching with Technology Tuesdays" and focused drop-in services.

The Library seeks expendable gifts and grant support at all levels. We also seek to meet substantial endowment goals to ensure the continuity of programs for Teaching and Learning/Library Support for Education. Among our priorities are:

Library Research Education Program (gifts towards a $3 million endowment goal)

Through its Library Research Education Program, library staff throughout the system provide over 1,700 sessions every year to Yale classes and groups of learners, and nearly 90,000 individual consultations using collections and electronic resources as part of their research and teaching. Among the services and programs we seek support for are:

Online Tutorials and Self-Help Guides-The Library seeks staff support to create point-of-need online tutorials and help guides to assist students with research in the online environment. ($80,000 per year)
Electronic Reserves-The Library seeks funds to continue to staff and manage this popular service allowing faculty to make use of digital delivery of class readings and other materials. ($150,000 per year)
Student Peer Teaching Internships-Funds will support a program that will provide students with the opportunity to teach their peers about research strategies and practices, centering on technological and strategic approaches. ($75,000 per year)
Personal Librarian Program-The Library will continue and enlarge a new and popular program introducing students entering Yale College to Library collections and services, by matching freshmen to a Librarian who will assist them in all aspects of their research during their freshmen and sophomore years. ($5,000 per year)
Collections and Viewing Stations for International Audio-Video and other Media Collections-The Library seeks support for equipment and services to present global multi-media collections in different formats, as well as for maintaining a circulating DVD collection in Bass Library, started with a gift from the Yale College Council. ($40,000 per year)
Learning Outcomes Assessment-An essential part of the Library Research Education program is regularly assessing and measuring its effectiveness. We seek funding for assessment program design and delivery. ($80,000 per year)

Collaborative Learning Center

The Collaborative Learning Center, opened in 2007, and integrated into the Anne T. and Robert M. Bass Library, is a unique partnership supporting innovation in teaching and learning at Yale. Among the campus partners are the Library, the Center for Language Study, the Center for Teaching and Learning, and the Instructional Technology Group. The Library seeks contributory funding and support for collaborative programming, such as:

Faculty Innovation in Teaching-Yale University actively supports faculty innovation in teaching through a series of campus-wide funding programs. (Library contribution for service support: $50,000 per year)
Course Support Leadership Institute-The collaborative will develop a training program for the many campus experts supporting faculty in their use of technologies, collections, and pedagogical best practices. (collaborative program goal: $20,000 per year)
"How to Succeed as a Teacher at Yale" -The Library partners with the Collaborative to offer orientation and service support for new faculty in teaching with technology and collections. (Collaborative program goal: $20,000 per year)
Innovations in Active Learning Spaces-Teaching and learning technologies are constantly evolving, and we need to be able to experiment and evaluate the efficacy of the spaces and the equipment we employ. The Library seeks funding for an ongoing review and upgrade program for the Collaborative Learning Center. (include outdoor and technology)-- (Collaborative program goal: $250,000)
"Teaching with Technology Tuesdays"-The Collaborative offers a very popular weekly program for Yale staff, faculty, and students interested in instructional technology. (Collaborative program goal: $5,000 per year)