This might include the suspension of certain activities, so that resources can be freed up to redirect elsewhere. And finally, a successful Library Instruction program evolves continually. The concept of constant evolution is so fundamental to our program that we used it as a theme for our poster session. Early in my career I was at the Yale University Library where I had the privilege of being mentored by the library director who taught me a lot about creating environments where all staff share the vision and the leadership of an organization. This is another important characteristic of a successful library instruction program.
Student evaluations show increased knowledge of library collections and services.
FIU students demonstrate greater skills using LUIS and LUIS databases in our public areas, and ask more sophisticated questions. Faculty evaluations note an improvement in the quality of sources cited in papers. We still see students using print abstracts and indexes because they know about them and understand when they still need to use them. There was that day in September when we taught 14 classes in one day. The provost funded two new lines to the Reference Department, including one for a new position of Library Instruction Coordinator.