Metric: The number of information literacy instruction sessions delivered synchronously, either in-person or online, in another discipline faculty member’s class, for the Fall 2020, Spring 2021, and Summer 2021 terms.
Analysis: In the 2020-21 academic year librarians taught 92 synchronous sessions reaching 1,429 students; 69 online sessions and 23 face-to-face sessions.
This is a considerable decline from the previous academic year. In Fall 2019, Spring 2020, and Summer 2021, librarians taught 220 synchronous sessions, and all but 9 were face-to-face sessions. The drop off is most likely due to the pandemic, an explanation documented by academic librarians nationwide. Many of the professors who usually engaged librarians in face-to-face classes did not invite the librarians to their courses when those moved online, as the faculty themselves were struggling to adapt, leading many of them to cut certain class activities. This was in spite of the fact that our librarians directly marketed to faculty that instruction sessions could be held online.
Source: LibInsight Library Instruction Dataset
Source: LibInsight Library Instruction Dataset
Source: LibInsight Library Instruction Dataset