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The campus focus on
Undergraduate education and the focus on research-based learning was an
important catalyst for us in the libraries as well. As Berkeley was thinking strategically
about how their research strength
could be leveraged to improve the undergraduate teaching mission, we seized
the opportunity to align ourselves with the broader campus teaching
priorities, to leverage our strength as a research library, to underscore our
role in helping the undergraduate education initiatives succeed. In this environment:
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•The library shifts its focus from “center of campus” to “center of
learning”;
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•The traditional library instruction sessions -- so difficult to scale
up in any sustainable way - could be connected to a broader undergraduate
research effort where faculty own learning outcomes for inquiry and
discovery, for research skills and abilities, and librarians participate in
assignment design and syllabus revision.
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•As campuses emphasize lower division large enrollment courses to
achieve the most impact, it became clear to us in the library that we needed
to work together with others responsible for teaching and learning - ( the
GSI T and L Center, the Office of Ed Development, Educational Technology
Services..)
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