Timeline

Pearsall Library has always taught classes requested by faculty.  The struggle has been to develop a program that reaches students at all levels with appropriate competencies.

1996....... Faculty approves new General Education Curriculum requiring “information acquisition in both traditional forms and emerging technologies.”

1996....... Began work on Information Literacy program that would reach students at all levels with focus on the freshman seminar.

1996-06.. Freshman seminar (COL 101) varies.  In 5 of 11 years, some library instruction is required.

2004....... Some English faculty assigned workshops as homework for freshman English classes.

2005....... Began Curriculum-Integrated Library Assignment program.  Librarians collaborated with faculty to create assignments for over 20 freshman classes.

2006....... Began to extend program to sophomore classes.

Realized the need to work with faculty who initiated assignments in prior years to update assignments and make sure they continued to use library assignments.

2007....... Continued to work with faculty teaching sophomore classes and to work with faculty to update assignments from prior years.  Faculty are enthusiastic!