Hunter College Libraries Blog

Professors Brian Lym, Jean Jacques Strayer and Lauren Yannotta from the Hunter College Libraries faculty received 2 Professional Staff Congress-CUNY and 1 FITT grant awards.

Professor Brian Lym, The HC libraries Science Librarian, received his PSC-CUNY award to assess the administration and use of the results of the SAILS (Standardized Assessment of Information Literacy Skills) Test, which was conducted by an 83-institution cohort from across the nation.  Hunter College was a member of the cohort.  The SAILS test is a multiple choice, cognitive instrument used to assess and evaluate the information literacy skills of undergraduate students.  The entire Reference Department of the Hunter College Libraries will work with Professor Lym in this project.

Professor Jean-Jacques Strayer, a senior member of the HC Libraries Reference Department, in collaboration with Professors Lym & Yannotta,  was awarded a FITT (Faculty Innovations in Teaching with Technology) grant for the Integration of Library Resources & Instructional Components into Foundation programs using BalckBoard Community sites.  This pilot project will produce a repository of learning modules, assignments and assessment instruments that English 120 faculty can adopt and/or adapt in collaboration with the CH Libraries’ faculty.

Professor Lauren Yannotta, the HC Libraries Instructional Design Librarian, received her PSC-CUNY award for her project “The Kitengesa Community Library” (which helps procure library/reading materials for a rural village in Uganda.  The award will help Professor Yannotta return to this location in Uganda to conduct an assessment study of the Kitengesa library on who is using the library, what materials are most popular, what activities are taking place and what changes have occurred since her last visit to the site in 2004.