Collaboration with MSU St. Andrews facility to train staff on book design in MS Word to develop a compilation of student writing and research proceedings from the MSU St. Andrews Writing Fellowship. We printed 150 copies of Still Connected and 100 copies of Proceedings of the MSU St. Andrews Summer Research Fellowship. This collaboration brought in about $2400 to the Libraries for the consultation and book production, and it will likely be an annual collaboration. This collaboration strengthens the partnership between the MSU Library and the MSU St. Andrews facility. The service provided expertise to the St. Andrews research fellowship program and training for staff at the St. Andrews facility. The books we produced increase the visibility of MSU Libraries and MSU in general and the print-on-demand nature of the service provides an innovative way to disseminate student work.

The COVID-19 video resources were created to assist the MSU community navigate library services that continue to be available after the MSU Library shut down during spring 2020. These videos have been shared widely, and have provided patrons with reassurance and direction for using the library during an uncertain time. A video was also created with information about navigating COVID-19 news to help our community stay informed and avoid misinformation. This video has been adopted by Lansing Community College as well.

Per their website, the Summer Research Opportunities Program (SROP) is a gateway to graduate education at Big Ten Academic Alliance universities. The goal of the program is to increase the number of underrepresented students who pursue graduate study and research careers. SROP helps prepare undergraduates for graduate study through intensive research experiences with faculty mentors and enrichment activities. SROP has been happening at MSU for more than 10 years, but not until 2019 did Erik Ponder get involved to promote the library as a resource for SROP interns while on campus. After his brief talk to the 2019 cohort, Erik realized the library could be much more involved in the program, and he set out to convince program director Steven Thomas to give MSU Libraries a larger role. Steven agreed to bring the interns to the library for an afternoon at the beginning of the 10-week program, and Erik created a committee tasked to plan a tailored library introduction. When campus closed, SROP was reimagined as a virtual 4-week program with 28 interns rather than 80, and the MSUL session went virtual as well.

https://grad.msu.edu/srop

In response to the ongoing pandemic and the shift of a large number of classes to online, instructional designers within MSU IT Services created professional development training and a peer-review process to provide feedback and assistance to instructors as they create their courses. Librarians have volunteered to serve as facilitators and lead groups of instructors through a modified version of the Quality Matters process to review their courses. Following a two-week Quality Matters training, facilitators provide guidance to faculty on how to perform course reviews, answer questions on the rubric used in the review process, review the completed rubrics, and assist faculty in developing a remediation plan for their course. Over 450 instructors have signed up for the review process, and facilitators work with a new group of approximately 5-6 instructors every two weeks. Through this process, librarians are adding to their instructional design expertise and are partnering with instructors across campus to improve course design, reducing barriers for students and leading to better academic outcomes.