Copley Library Annual Report 2022-2023

USD Student Support and Instruction

Hugh Burkhart, Coordinator of Undergraduate Instruction, targeted outreach in Fall 2019 specifically for instructors teaching LLC and TLC courses. Tracking from last year revealed that librarians held instruction sessions in 15 LLC or TLC classes, reaching over 300 students. To put that into a better perspective, USD’s Institutional Research and Planning Data shows that 1,686 first-year and transfer students were enrolled last year, and the library saw over 700 students in required first-year classes. The goal for 2023-24 is to reach over 50% of all first-year students in either FYW courses or LLC and TLC linked courses. By introducing information literacy concepts in these required courses, Copley’s instruction librarians can help lay a solid foundation on which students can build their academic careers. *See the stats on page 21 for the complete data. Summer Bridge 2022 On August 22, 2022, Catherine Paolillo (former Evening Access Services Librarian), Steve Staninger (Reference Librarian), and Wisdom Choice (Student Assistant, Class of 2023) led a tour for 100 USD Student Support Services Summer (SSS) Bridge participants for the 2022-2023 academic year. The SSS Summer Bridge program is “an intensive one week program that will help incoming first-year and transfer students transition into life at USD.” Copley Library has partnered with SSS Summer Bridge for many years in order to provide its students with a crash course in Copley’s many services and resources that can support and help students thrive at USD. Catherine incorporated a TikTok video challenge for the 2022 library program, having groups of students make videos that celebrated Copley’s recently renovated space and helped students feel welcome in the library.

Information Literacy Instruction: Bringing Students to the Library and the Library to Students As Copley Library’s instruction numbers continue to tick upwards, one standout is the increase in workshop attendance. While only four more workshops were held during the 2022-23 academic year compared to the previous year – for a total of 49 workshops – attendance increased by 79% for a total of 997 attendees. *This increase included a larger percentage of undergraduates among the attendees compared to last year. New workshops, attended primarily by undergraduates, helped boost attendance, such as “Introducing Bloomberg Terminals” led by Jennifer Bidwell, the library’s embedded Business Librarian, as well as ongoing workshop series for specific student groups such as the sessions for McNair Scholars on conducting literature reviews and navigating the scholarly publishing system. While most workshops were held in person, the library also continues to offer online and hybrid options to increase accessibility to all students, whether they are working on or off campus. Similarly, instruction librarians teach in classrooms around campus as well as in the library, and they hold consultations both in person and online. Last year also marked the first year in which the library made a more concerted effort to document where it was reaching undergraduate students by level. Starting in the 2022 Fall semester, the library tracked all instances of library instruction sessions to First Year Writing (FYW) and Living Learning and Transfer Learning Community (LLC and TLC) linked courses, courses taken by new Toreros. The library first partnered with First Year Writing instructors after the launch of the revised undergraduate core curriculum in 2017. In 2022-2023, librarians taught sessions for 20 sections of First Year Writing 150, reaching more than 400 students.

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