Thousands of students attend & log-in to Library component of First Year Language classes.  The double-cohort had a big impact on Library teaching this past semester.  Librarians taught thousands of students in collaboration with the Language Center to help students learn how to find and evaluate sources for a required project.  From September 17th to October 5th 2012, we held 21 sessions of a 90 minute face-to-face workshop for LANG 1001 (3Y first year students) and 51 sessions for  LANG 1002 (4Y first year students), instructing 2,484 students.  More sessions for LANG 1001 students will be held this spring.  Teaching librarians collected over 800 workshop evaluation forms, which showed the face-to-face sessions were well received.

• 94.7% said the amount covered was "just right"
• 88.4% said amount of hands-on practice was "just right"
• 75.3% said class length was "just right"

In addition to the face-to-face workshops, library staff created two e-learning objects on making citations and  embedded them into the LANG 1001/1002 Library Guide.  This guide was also linked from the respective LMES sites for those LANG courses.  By the end of November, these objects has been accessed over 1,700 times each: What is a citation (1,730) & How to cite APA style (1,779)

Librarians also created an online quiz with automatic feedback for the students, to help solidify concepts and measure student learning.  The quizzes were embedded directly in the LMES pages for the courses.  2,252 first year students took the online quiz with an average score of 91%.  They also provided feedback on the e-learning objects.

1,523 students (67.6%) rated the online tools as "above average" or "excellent".  Many of the written comments on the E-Learning objects and quiz were also positive, including one who said:
"The interactive exercises are adorably helpful cause it includes animations and games which stimulate me to be concentrated. The games in the end of each exercises helped me recall all I have learned and so I can have better understand, I don't need to pay a lot endeavor in memorizing it also."

Library staff members are encouraged by the feedback from both the face-to-face teaching and the E-Learning components.  We look forward to broadening and deepening the Library’s efforts at collaboration with other academic support units and academic departments via both E-Learning and  face-to-face sessions, in order to enhance students’ skills in finding, evaluating, and using information properly.