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To develop students’ core academic skills for independent
and lifelong learning through a coordinated range of high quality, timely,
responsive and cost-effective learning support services.
Position learning skills services within the Library’s organisational and budgetary structures
Learning skills advisers are located in all branches and are co-located with librarians in Faculty Teams. During 2008 a Learning Skills Manager was appointed and the team grew to comprise 20 advisers by the end of 2008. Consolidation of the learning skills budgetary structure took place in line with the Library’s overall budgetary framework.
Develop, implement, evaluate and review learning skills programs
A broad range of embedded, integrated and stand-alone programs were developed and implemented, as reported in Goal 2 above. The 2008 Key Performance Indicators report for learning skills details programs in 16 units and several faculties. A number of programs were developed in partnership with the Monash Postgraduate Association and Monash Research Graduate School, the latter as part of the exPERT seminars. Work commenced to embed and integrate skills development into the revised Pharmacy undergraduate curriculum from 2009.
The scheduled review of learning skills commenced in December 2008. The review aims to determine whether faculty and student needs are being met and provides an opportunity for stakeholder input into future directions.
An investigation of electronic (primarily software) resources to support learning skills and language development commenced, and recommendations for purchase in 2009 will be made.
Advance a service model that is aligned with and builds upon the concept of the learning commons and the Library's information literacy programs, to deliver high quality, coordinated services
Following the success of co-location of learning skills
advisers and librarians in branches, planning for further integration into
Faculty Team groups was undertaken. Terms of reference were developed for
Faculty Teams to facilitate the integration and collaboration of learning skills
and librarians.
Develop a distributed staffing structure that facilitates the operation of an efficient, cost effective and responsive learning skills service
Recruitment of 20 learning skills staff in all branches and in all faculty teams has been a major milestone in the establishment of the Learning Skills Unit. Following the development of terms of reference, Learning Skills staff participated in Faculty Team meetings.
Manage faculty expectations and provide a well communicated service offer
A revised suite of publications incorporating learning skills was produced for 2008. A group of learning skills advisers worked with the Library’s web team to revise the learning skills web page. Library News items and web page features on learning skills were also developed and run throughout the year.
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