{"id":4991,"date":"2016-11-01T19:21:52","date_gmt":"2016-11-01T19:21:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.hampshire.edu\/knowledgecommons\/?p=655"},"modified":"2016-11-01T19:21:52","modified_gmt":"2016-11-01T19:21:52","slug":"kc-project-plan-2016-17","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.hampshire.edu\/theharold\/2016\/11\/01\/kc-project-plan-2016-17\/","title":{"rendered":"From Vision to Reality: Part I"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Three years of planning culminated in 2016 with a vision for a library-based &#8220;Knowledge Commons&#8221; that would strengthen existing services and resources at Hampshire and help guarantee a significant and sustainable future for a reimagined library that meets the needs of 21st century learners.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->As we move out of that phase of the project, I&#8217;m proud to introduce a detailed Knowledge Commons Project Plan that will help us translate that vision into reality. The core of the plan is a set of <strong>desired outcomes<\/strong> that describes what we want to be able to say we&#8217;ve accomplished at the end of the project. Each desired outcome implies a set of concrete activities that we can undertake and a set of assessment questions that will help us measure success.<\/p>\n<p>In this post, I&#8217;m proud to introduce the three core desired outcomes of the project and a sampling of the activities our project team will undertake as we move towards these goals.<\/p>\n<h3>1. Students will demonstrate increased awareness of campus support services &amp; resources and will take greater advantage of those services.<\/h3>\n<h4>Strategies:<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>Improve and expand cooperative marketing efforts, including creating and maintaining shared social media and web presence<\/li>\n<li>Coordinate targeted outreach to groups of students most likely to benefit from academic support (e.g., first-year students through First Year Tutorials and new student orientation; DIV III students through DIV III orientations, receptions, and through promotion to faculty advisors)<\/li>\n<li>Provide consultations, workshops, and other services in a central space in the library<\/li>\n<li>Establish baseline usage numbers for existing peer learning services<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>2. Students will experience streamlined, seamless, and convenient access to disparate academic resources and services.<\/h3>\n<h4>Strategies:<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>Implement shared scheduling and calendaring system<\/li>\n<li>Build and maintain shared web and social media presence<\/li>\n<li>Standardize peer consultant\/mentorship models so that students know what to expect when they take advantage of services<\/li>\n<li>Ensure cross-training of peer consultants\/mentors<\/li>\n<li>Provide consultations, workshops, and other services in a central space<\/li>\n<li>Offer consistent and coordinated drop-in hours<\/li>\n<li>Provide consistent and comprehensive referrals to other services\/resources<\/li>\n<li>Extend availability of services\/resources by providing after-hours help when professional staff are not in the library<\/li>\n<li>Improve navigability of library building<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>3. Students demonstrate improved learning outcomes and retention and an increased sense of belonging.<\/h3>\n<h4>Strategies:<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>Build coordinated and standardized assessment tools to track and analyze students\u2019 experiences with peer consulting\/mentoring services<\/li>\n<li>Work with Hampshire Learning Project and other groups on campus to gather and correlate qualitative and quantitative data about student satisfaction and retention<\/li>\n<li>Build mechanisms and opportunities for knowledge-sharing and collaboration between Knowledge Commons Partner Programs to improve pedagogy and practice<\/li>\n<li>Coordinate targeted outreach to first-year students<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Stay tuned for my next post, which will offer more details about how the project team will organize its activities to achieve these desired outcomes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Three years of planning culminated in 2016 with a vision for a library-based &#8220;Knowledge Commons&#8221; that would strengthen existing services and resources at Hampshire and help guarantee a significant and sustainable future for a reimagined library that meets the needs of 21st century learners.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1383,"featured_media":656,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[37110,19381,21726],"tags":[11964],"class_list":["post-4991","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hfj-library","category-planning","category-spotlight","tag-update","column","threecol","has-thumbnail"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.hampshire.edu\/theharold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4991"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.hampshire.edu\/theharold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.hampshire.edu\/theharold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.hampshire.edu\/theharold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1383"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.hampshire.edu\/theharold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4991"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sites.hampshire.edu\/theharold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4991\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.hampshire.edu\/theharold\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.hampshire.edu\/theharold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4991"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.hampshire.edu\/theharold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4991"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.hampshire.edu\/theharold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}