Assess and Invest: Faculty Feedback on Library Tutorials

Kristina M. Appelt is Librarian/Assistant Professor at Prairie State College; e-mail: kappelt@prairiestate. edu. Kimberly Pendell is Assistant Information Services Librarian at University of Illinois at Chicago; e-mail: [email protected]. Communication and collaboration with faculty are increasingly important in the development of both curriculum-integrated and stand-alone “just in time” library tutorials. In the final developmental stages of the EvidenceBased Practice online tutorials, faculty members were asked to provide input during structured faculty feedback sessions. These sessions aimed to gather feedback on tutorial structure, discipline-specific content, integrating the tutorial with class curriculum, and best marketing practices. The results demonstrate that involving faculty in the assessment of tutorials is a beneficial way to improve and promote tutorials. Another important outcome was learning more about the interests of the faculty and related curriculum.