Department History
| 1994 | User Education Team evaluates program and launches new sessions. |
| 1996 | User Education Services (UES) unit created with the hiring of new manager & librarian (Trudi Hahn, Maggie Cunningham)
The Electronic Resources Seminars for Faculty & Graduate Students are launched. |
| 1997 | User Education for Undergraduates Team (UEUT) formed to develop general walk-in library instruction sessions. Four instruction modules developed: Lost in the Library; Where do I start?;
When is your paper due?; and Tangled in the Web?
The Electronic Reading Room on the 6th floor of McKeldin Library is reconfigured into two instruction labs: MCK 6101, MCK 6103. |
| 1998 | Library Day instruction session for ENGL 101 revamped; ENGL 101 instructors no longer conduct their own library session as special lecturers hired to teach them.
Subject teams formed; subject librarians collaborate with UES to provide specialized instruction. Committee on Library User Education (CLUE) formed. UES coordinates library publicity through a variety of efforts: Diamondback inserts, First Look Fair, Commuter Breakfast, etc. |
| 1999 | Walk-in classes discontinued. Library instruction sessions developed for first year courses UNIV 100 & 101 (Library Safari).
2109 transformed from a Gov Docs media room into an instruction lab. |
| 2001 | CLUE dissolved; library administration institutes Information Literacy Team (ILT).
Coordinated information literacy instruction launched for middle and high school groups. Beyond the Basics library instruction sessions begin for Professional Writing Program. |
| 2002 | Terrapin Information Literacy Tutorial (TILT) tested, modified and implemented.
Library instruction sessions for GEMS 100 and HONR 100 implemented. |
| 2003 | UM participates in Standardized Assessment of Information Literacy Skills (SAILS).
MCK 6107 reconfigured as an instruction lab. |
| 2004 | UM chosen as site for LOEX 2006 Conference. Maggie Cunningham becomes Acting Head of unit, after Trudi Bellardo Hahn departs for NCLIS. |
| 2005 | Assessment of the Information Literacy Team (ILT) begins.
Academic Integrity Committee formed. |
| 2006 | LOEX 2006 Conference (May 4-6) is a resounding success.
The "new" Information Literacy Team is formed. Under Diane Harvey's leadership, UES takes a lead role in learning outcomes assessment planning for the Middle States Reaccreditation process |
