The document summarizes the agenda and presentations for a staff development day at the Library and Learning Commons. It includes welcome remarks, director updates on tutoring services, supplemental instruction, and library services. Presentations covered tutoring statistics, training programs, conferences, and preliminary data showing positive student outcomes associated with tutoring. Breakout groups discussed strategic planning, and the day included a keynote speech, escape room activity, and author series update.

1. Library and Learning Commons
Staff Development Day
October 06, 2017

2. Welcome!
Tom Messner
Executive Dean Library and Learning Commons

3. Special Thanks to the Planning Committee:
• Joe Beasley
• Barbara Bryant
• Lea Cason
• Jennifer Grey
• Youlanda Henry
• Sunita Kapil
• Dora Kress
• Romana Lopes
• Trina McCowan
• Emily O’Neil
• Marcie Williams

4. TODAY’S AGENDA
• Welcome and Overview from Executive Dean
• Updates from the Directors
• Strategic Planning
• Break
• Discipline Breakout Groups
• Keynote Speaker
• Lunch
• Escape Room
• Message from Associate Provost of Curriculum & Instruction
• Author Series Update
• Wrap-up

5. TUTORING SERVICES
Youlanda Henry, Director of Tutoring Services

6. TUTORING BY THE NUMBERS
52,768 tutoring lab visits
7,531 unique visitors
44,150 tutoring sessions
2016-2017 ACADEMIC YEAR

7. TUTOR TRAINING PROGRESS
• Developed a training program that fits CRLA’s Level 1 International Tutor
Training Certification Program requirements
• 80 Career and peer tutors participated in training in first annual Tutor
Training Seminar
• Movement toward “One-College”paradigm and greater consistency in
training experiences across the College
• Next steps are to develop curriculum for Level 2 training.

8. • Hosted the 4th annual FCLCA
conference
• Largest turnout in the history
of the organization
• Attendees representing:
14 FCS institutions
9 SUS institutions
2 private colleges
2 out-of-state institutions
FCLCA CONFERENCE

9. SUPPLEMENTAL INSTRUCTION (SI) PILOT
• Targets high-enrollment, high-risk courses
• Data shows that students who participate in SI have experienced
higher mean GPAs, pass rates, and retention rates.
• Launched a pilot in SI for the Fall 2017 semester in MAT 1033
• SI being offered at all campus locations

10. Percentage of DFW Final Course Grades for SI and Non-SI
Participants Separated by Institution Type
National Data, Fall 2004 – Spring 2014, 69 Institutions, 5480 Courses, n = 702,905 Students
Copyright 2014 University of Missouri - Kansas City

11. Copyright 2014 University of Missouri - Kansas City
Mean Final Grades of SI and Non-SI Participants Separated by
Institution Type
National Data, Fall 2004 – Spring 2014, 69 Institutions, 5480 Courses, n = 702,905 Students

12. ACCUDEMIA AND STUDENT SUCCESS
• Accudemia has allowed us to track usage of tutoring services and to
begin to analyze its efficacy
• Preliminary data focused on gateway math courses have shown
positive outcomes associated with use of tutoring

13. SUCCESS DATA BY COURSE: STEM
MAC 1105 MAT 1033
60
62
64
66
68
70
72
74
76
78
Spring 2016 Fall 2016 Spring 2017
66 66
67
73
74
78
No Tutoring Tutoring
50
52
54
56
58
60
62
64
66
Spring 2016 Fall 2016 Spring 2017
56
60
56
63
65
66
No Tutoring Tutoring

14. SUCCESS DATA BY COURSE: NON-STEM
MGF 1106 MGF 1107
0
10
20
30
40
50
60
70
80
90
Spring 2016 Fall 2016 Spring 2017
71 68 70
75 75
83
No Tutoring Tutoring
0
10
20
30
40
50
60
70
80
90
Spring 2016 Fall 2016 Spring 2017
71
67 64
77
73
83
No Tutoring Tutoring

15. ACCUDEMIA REFERRALS
• Opportunity for faculty to refer students for various LLC services
Referral Tutorial

16. NEW WEB CONTENT
2,242 page visits
since July 1st

17. STAFF ACCOMPLISHMENTS
• Esteban Cano, Deerwood Center Academic Tutor for Spanish,
received a Career Employees' Council Recognition of Excellence
Award.
• Dr. Kathleen Ciez-Volz, Associate Provost of Curriculum and Instruction,
selected for the 2017 Administrative and Professional Collaborative
Exceptional Service and Initiative Award.
• Youlanda Henry, Director of Tutoring Services, elected to serve on the
FCLCA Board:
• 2017-2018 Vice-President
• 2018-2019 President
• 2019-2020 Immediate Past-President
• Youlanda was elected as the Secretary of the Administrative and
Professional Collaborative for the 2017-2018 AY.

18. NATIONAL TUTORING WEEK
OCTOBER 2-6, 2017

19. LIBRARY SERVICES
Shannon Dew, Director of Online Library Services

20. Programming in the LLC
Obscenity Trials & fREADdom
Banned Books Week September 24th
through September 30th
Jennifer Grey and Sharon Uskokovich
collaborated with:
• Audrey Antee
• Carl Colavito
• Mark Creegan
• PaRDI Club

21. Programming in the LLC
Books and the Big Screen
A Long Way Home by Saroo Brierley
• Sheri Brown collaborating with Dr.
Sam Ertenberg
• 3rd semester
• Blackboard Community Page to join
the discussion

22. Programming in the LLC
Coming Soon…
Oct 30/31 - Grammarween at
Downtown:
A grammar-horror-themed escape
room

23. Programming in the LLC
Coming Soon…
Oct 26 - Fall Fest at Cecil
Promoting LLC services in the courtyard
with food, music, and games
Oct 31 – Gamerween at Deerwood
Tutor Lisa Lavado will discuss the brain’s
ghoulish glitches followed by a table top
game hosted by Lea Cason and Shawn
Whitener

24. Programming in the LLC
Coming Soon…
Oct 31 – Gamerween at South Campus
Discussion with Professor Tim Gilmore
followed by a table top session of
“Betrayal at House on the Hill”
Holiday Horror Film Fest at Nassau
Melonee Slocum and Patrick Bertram
are collaborating with faculty members
Ranjan Chhibber and Shep Shepard

25. Programming in the LLC
Coming Soon…
Nov 1 - FSCJ LLC’s Living Library Lecture Series at North
(10th anniversary of the series formerly called Something to Talk
About) featuring Bobbi Cordova-Hanks speaking on communicating
across cultures
Shakespeare’s Humors at
North
Details soon…

26. Training
Sierra/Encore – Spring 2018
• http://guides.fscj.edu/integratedlibrarysystem
PT Librarian Training – In progress
AFPD: Online Library Services – A7/C7 Fall 2017
• Offered by Sharon Uskokovich
• PT Librarians encouraged to participate

27. Inventory
We completed an inventory
of every campus and center
this past year!
# of items = 153,093
# missing = 3578
Shrink rate = 2.34%

28. Accomplishments
FALSC Members Council on Library Services (MCLS)
• Tom Messner-Elected to serve as the 2017-18 Chair-Elect
NEFLIN Boards of Directors
• Dr. Victoria McGlone – Elected to serve a 3-year term
NEFLIN Assessment Project 2017-18
• Dr. Victoria McGlone, Trina McCowan, and Madeline Sims

29. Accomplishments
FALSC Textbook Affordability and OER Standing
Committee
• Melonee Slocum – Appointed
FSCJ Faculty Senate
• Melonee Slocum and Sharon Uskokovich – 2017-2018 AY
• Mary Dumbleton – 2016-2017 AY
Association of College & Research Libraries
• Susan Mythen- Member of Week for April 2017

30. Information Literacy
LIS 1001 – Introduction to College Research
• First in the state to develop a course based on the
new ACRL: Framework for Information Literacy for
Higher Education
• Approved by the FSCJ Curriculum Committee on
March 16, 2017
• Will be offered as a hybrid 3-credit course in Spring
2018
• Melonee Slocum and Sharon Uskokovich will be
Subject Matter Experts to design the online course
with the Center for eLearning

31. Presentations
Online Learning Consortium (OLC)
Nov 17 – Expanding Access: Designing a Two-Year Degree
Pathway with Open Educational Resources (OER)
• Panel Discussion
• Presenters:
• Dr. Peter Shapiro
• Dr. Jill Hagenberger
• Shannon Dew
• Melonee Slocum
• Herschel Shepard

32. Open Educational Resources (OER)
Achieving the Dream Grant
Library Partnership with Center
for eLearning
• OER Courses Completed and
approved: 11
• Courses Completed Lumen
Approval Needed: 2
• Courses still in design mode: 1

33. Open Educational Resources (OER)
Fall 2017
65 course sections (including 10 on
Military bases)
• Up from 16 approved sections during
summer term
• Possible students enrolled – 1,500
• Average textbook cost = $134
• Savings to students = $201,000

34. LibGuides (July 1 – Oct 2, 2017)
150 Published Guides / 252 Total Guides
• 2017: Viewed 32,943 times in 94 days
• 2016: Viewed 17,947 times in 94 days

35. A-Z Databases Page
• Databases now indexed from the LibGuides site
from the FALSC site
• 5,389 views in 94 days (July 1 – Oct 2)

36. LibAnswers
• Chat box added to most
LibGuides
• Coming soon… Linking
with Blackboard Tools
• Expand training
opportunities for
librarians collegewide

37. LibAnswers: July 1 – Oct 2, 2017
LibAnswers
• 42 questions:
22 Texts
12 Submitted questions
4 Online
4 Facebook Messenger
TOTAL = 100 Questions
LibChat
• 58 questions:
53 Answered
5 Missed

38. LibChat: Questions
• I’m doing a paper on the negative effects of Social
Media are on people
• Are we allowed to eat in the library while we study?
• Hi. Is tutoring available for Human Anatomy and
Physiology?
• Hi, Which days are the Spanish tutors in the lab?
• Does the FSCJ library have any essay help? Where some
one could peer review and give good feedback?
• Is there a printer in the library where I’m able to print
something?

39. Curriculum Builder
EBSCO Discovery Service
• Reading lists created in Blackboard using quality EBSCO
databases, ebooks, and other digital resources
How it works:
• Search library content from within Blackboard
• Click “Add to Reading List” and the selections are saved

40. Curriculum Builder
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43. Strategic Planning
“The process is more important than the plan!”
• Aligning LLC Goals to meet the College’s new Strategic Plan.

44. Areas of interest:
• Student Success
• Community Engagement
• Institutional Capacity

45. Begin by questioning:
Strengths of the LLC?
• 10 minutes discussion from handouts
• 5 minute table report outs

46. Next:
Weaknesses of the LLC?
• 10 minutes discussion from handouts
• 5 minute table report outs

47. Finally:
Opportunities to Achieve:
• Student success
• Community engagement
• Institutional capacity
• Bonus!: What Measures could we use to know if
we are successful?
• 10 minutes discussion from handouts
• 5 minute table report outs

48. 10 Minute Break!
• Please reconvene in your assigned discipline work
group space.
• Work Groups will meet for one hour and return
here at 11:35 for our guest speaker.

49. KEYNOTE SPEAKER
Professor Betty Jimmo, Hospitality Management

50. Lunch and Prizes!!!!
• Please be back at 12:40

51. Dr. Kathleen Ciez-Volz
Associate Provost of Curriculum and Instruction

53. Escape Room Project
• Who will survive!?
• Reconvene at 1:30

54. Author Series Reveal
• Sheri Brown

55. Open Forum Q & A
• Door Prize

56. Thank you!
• Please provide feedback about the program! 