Meeting on Yale College Curriculum Changes and the Library

[Danuta Nitecki <danuta.nitecki@YALE.EDU>]

What will an educated person need to know a decade or two from now, and 
what steps can Yale College take to ensure that students are given the best 
preparation for the future world?   This was the key question President 
Levin posed to the Committee on Yale College Education [CYCE], and in 2003 
this distinguished group of faculty and campus administrators issued a 
report of its findings and recommendations.   Since then, the Yale College 
has been working toward planning and implementing reforms to the 
undergraduate curriculum.

Joseph Gordon, Deputy Dean of Yale College, will join LMC members next week 
and any other librarians, curators, or Library staff who are interested to 
learn about these undergraduate curriculum reform activities underway in 
the College.   Alfred Guy, director of the newly established  Center for 
Writing Instruction, and  Dean Peter Quimby, director of the new Freshman 
Seminar Program will participate in this session as well.

Dean Gordon will highlight plans for  the curricular reform described by 
CYCE but will assume that all those attending will have familiarized 
themselves with at least the Executive Summary of this groups report; the 
report is available online at 
<http://www.yale.edu/yce/>http://www.yale.edu/yce/   I also have invited 
Dean Gordon to comment on ways the Library may support these efforts, and 
he and his colleagues look forward to leading a discussion about our work, 
along with the faculty, to develop information research skills, and 
to  help students to  make good use of collection-based and electronic 
resources in their studies and in their life activities after they leave 
Yale.   [The Librarys proposal to the CYCE on our support of instruction 
for undergraduate research methods appears as an appendix in the CYCE 
Report.   To view it online, see: 
http://www.yale.edu/yce/report/libraryreport.pdf].

The future of undergraduate teaching and education at Yale is a highly 
relevant topic to many of us in the Library, especially as we are designing 
renovations to our library facilities and developing new services and tools 
to help prepare our students.   Please mark your calendar for this timely 
session with Dean Gordon, Mr. Guy, and Dean Quimby:

Wednesday, January 26, 2005
10-11 a.m.
Sterling Memorial Library
Lecture Hall

Library staff are welcome to attend, subject to approval from their 
supervisor and coverage of services.

Danuta A. Nitecki
Associate University Librarian
for public services