Capacity Building Programme for Librarians

The Capacity Building Programme of the UGC T&L Project on Information Literacy is a professional development programme tailor designed for librarians of the eight participating institutions.

Programme content include (1) building collaborative partnerships, (2) research assignment design, and (3) information literacy (L) assessment. It will be conducted by Ms Lisa Janicke Hinchliffe of the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign. Two webinars with the overseas facilitators will be held to follow up and consolidate learning.

Core team: Victoria Caplan (HKUST), Johnny Yuen (PolyU), Carol Ma (PolyU)

Goal:

  • To provide professional training for librarians to build collaborative partnership with faculty members; research assignments design, and information assessment
  • To develop librarian partnerships with faculty members to enhance IL teaching and learning in subject-related course context, in particular, for those parts of curriculum with strong research components

Implementation Timetable for Capacity Building Programme 

Date Task Responsible Team(s)
Jan 2016

5 days Capacity Building Programme (I) to help librarians to build collaborative partnership with faculty members.40 librarians from the eight participating institutes and setup task team for their own library.

Core team:To share the preliminary findings from information task

Instructor: Ms Lisa Janicke Hinchliffe

CBP Core team & 40 librarians

Instructor: Ms Lisa Janicke Hinchliffe

Feb 2016

Core team will draft the template of Course Enhancement fund Guideline and application form.

Each task team from JULAC library is required to modify the template to fit their own need.

CBP Core team & 40 librarians
Mar 2016

Webinar conducted on 21March2016 (Morning session) at HKUST

 

CBP Core team & 40 librarians

Instructor: Ms Lisa Janicke Hinchliffe

Jun 2016

2 days Capacity Building Programme (II) to help librarians to design research assessment and evaluation

(13-14June2016)

CBP Core team & 40 librarians

Instructor: Ms Lisa Janicke Hinchliffe

Last update: 23 Nov 2016