Annual Planning Report

ACRL Instruction Section Annual Planning Form

All committees and task forces should use this form to identify their long- and short-term activities and projects, including those prescribed by their charge. Please fill out one form for each activity or project that your committee or task force plans to work on this year.

Use this form to:

1. Report each activity.
2. Identify which "ACRL Plan for Excellence" objective it supports.
3. Write measurable objectives for this activity.
4. State the projected completion date.
5. Describe your plans to evaluate the success of the activity or project.

If you have questions about filling out the form, contact your IS Exec Liaison. Forms are due by September 10, 2021

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* 1. Name of committee or task force:

Advisory

Communication

Virtual Engagement

Miriam Dudley Instruction Librarian Award Committee

Framework for Information Literacy Sandbox Committee

Information Gathering and Exchange

Information Literacy Best Practices

Information Literacy in the Disciplines

Innovation Award Committee

Inclusive Pedagogy

Instructional Technologies

Management and Leadership

Membership

Mentoring Program

Peer-Reviewed Instructional Materials Online (PRIMO)

Research and Scholarship

Ilene F. Rockman Instruction Publication of the Year Award

Teaching Methods

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* 2. Committee Chair, including contact information:

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* 3. Name of activity or project:

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* 4. All IS activity must be linked to one of the 14 "ACRL Plan for Excellence" objectives (http://www.ala.org/acrl/aboutacrl/strategicplan/stratplan), with exception of activities that support the internal work of the section. Identify the "ACRL Plan for Excellence" objective the activity supports or the exception for internal section work. If you are uncertain about the appropriate selection, please consult your Executive Committee liaison.

Value of Academic Libraries: Cultivate research opportunities that communicate the impact of academic and research libraries in the higher education environment.

Value of Academic Libraries: Promote the impact and value of academic and research libraries to the higher education community.

Value of Academic Libraries: Expand professional development opportunities for assessment and advocacy of the contributions towards impact of academic libraries.

Value of Academic Libraries: Support libraries in articulating their role in advancing issues of equity, access, diversity, and inclusion in higher education.

Student Learning: Empower libraries to build sustainable, equitable, inclusive, and responsive information literacy programs.

Student Learning: Collaborate with internal and external partners to expand understanding of the impact of information literacy on student learning

Research and Scholarly Environment: Increase the ways ACRL is an advocate and model for more representative and inclusive ways of knowing.

Research and Scholarly Environment: Enhance members’ capacity to address issues related to scholarly communication, including but not limited to data management, library publishing, open access, and digital scholarship, and power and privilege in knowledge creation systems.

Research and Scholarly Environment: Increase ACRL’s efforts to influence and advocate for more open and equitable dissemination policies and practices.

New Roles & Changing Landscapes: Deepen ACRL’s advocacy and support for the full range of the academic library workforce.

New Roles & Changing Landscapes: Equip the academic library workforce to effectively lead, manage, and embrace change, advocate for their communities, and serve as a catalyst for transformational change in higher education.

New Roles & Changing Landscapes: Increase diversity, cultivate equity, and nurture inclusion in the academic library workforce.

Does not directly correlate to any "ACRL Plan for Excellence" objective (this option is reserved for committees or task forces whose work is primarily focused on the internal work of the Instruction Section, such as Planning).

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* 5. Describe the activity or project and how it relates to the objective you identified above.

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* 6. How are you incorporating equity, diversity, and inclusion ideas/principles into this project? ACRL core commitment to EDI

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* 7. This project is a:

Continuous project assigned in the charge

Short-term project

Long-term project

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* 8. Action plan. List as bullet points the steps required to complete this project and the planned dates to complete each step:

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* 9. Proposed activity or project completion date:

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* 10. How will the success of the activity or project be measured?

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* 11. What resources will you need to accomplish this activity or project? Please indicate which resources, such as additional funding or software, will need to be obtained from outside your committee structure.

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* 12. The Instruction Section does not require committee members to attend the ALA Midwinter or ALA Annual Meetings. We do require that committees/task forces host virtual meetings. Please describe below how your committee or task force will conduct its work within this model.