Aligning library instruction with the needs of basic sciences graduate students: a case study

Аннотация

DML is the library for fhe health sciences at UVM in Burlington. UVM is the largest institution of higher education in fhe state of Vermont, enrolling approximately 10,459 undergraduate students, 1,979 graduate students, and 1,023 nondegree students in fall 2011, including 449 students in the College of Medicine (COM) and 794 students in the College of Nursing and Health Sciences (CNHS). DML delivers the majority of ifs information liferacy instruction via its liaison program. Liaison librarians who provide curriculum-based instruction reach students in nearly all the COM and CNHS programs and departments and the residency programs at Pletcher Allen Health Care (PAHC), with one important exception: the COM graduate students in the basic sciences. Despite multiple attempts to pick up teaching slots in the graduate program curricula, the DML librarians experienced limited success in reaching this patron constituency.