Mona, Campus:

  • Through the inclusion into the sessions for FD10A/14A and UC10A, of a new video production by the Harvard Writing Project entitled Shaped by Writing: The Undergraduate Experience as well as through the creation and delivery of a new lecture by the Head of the Mona Information Literacy Unit, entitled Shaping Your Writing and Research. These sessions were also used for the Distance Education training conducted by the Distance Librarian, on her visit to Belize and The Bahamas in February 2006.
  • Introduction of an Information Literacy Summer Project – Learning for Life: Information Literacy Skills for Today and Tomorrow which was offered for one week in July 2007 and was aimed at Secondary school students. The students identified research topics of interest and were given hands-on experience in analyzing their information needs and identifying, locating, evaluating and using information resources responsibly.
  • The Mona Librarians were invited for the first time, to present a session on Conducting Information Literacy with Students: Strategies and Approaches, at the Annual Staff Conference for Resident Tutors, on July 12, 2007. The sessions covered an in-depth presentation and discussion on integrating information literacy training into the School of Continuing Studies’ programme, and a presentation on the Library’s electronic resources.
  • The organizing of a workshop in January 2006, in collaboration with the Department of Library and Information Studies and the Commonwealth Library Association. The workshop entitled Information Literacy for Public Librarians across the Commonwealth was attended by 23 participants for the Caribbean, Fiji, India, Malta, Botswana, Zambia, South Africa and Uganda.
  • Another workshop, Learning for Life – Information Skills for Today and Tomorrow was conducted with students from schools in Kingston and the rural areas. The workshop aimed at increasing information literacy skills among high school students, helping students make the transition from high school to university, strengthening links between high schools and the UWI, and improving research readiness among incoming UWI Mona students. As a result of this initiative, high interest has been shown in an ongoing summer course of this nature for pre-university students as well as for those who have been admitted to the UWI 
     

St Augustine, Campus:

  • The Information Literacy programme expanded its reach beyond the Library through its collaboration with Faculties to include Information Literacy Services as part of their courses as well as part of some University Foundation courses.
  • Efforts were also made to upgrade the competencies of the Information Literacy Working Group who attended a customized, two-day workshop, on Course Design and Assessment put on by the Instructional Development Unit. The workshop was important in support of the goal of developing credit-bearing Information Literacy instruction. 
     

Cave Hill, Campus:

  • Efforts were made to promote Information Literacy through its integration into the curriculum for Foundation Courses. This was facilitated through the presentation of a workshop Integrating Information Literacy Competencies into an Instructional Module and the revision of the third year Caribbean Studies course to include Library and Information Technology Methods and document styles.