Library Courses: Enrollment History

Library Instruction: Addressing the State AAOT Requirements

The story these statistics tell is one of the transition in Library course instruction related to the State’s AAOT (Associate of Arts Oregon Transfer) requirement to imbed information literacy outcomes into Writing 121 and 122 curricula.

In 2008-09, we anticipated that the Library 127 two-unit course would be removed from the curriculum by Fall 2010. In response, we devised two new one-credit courses with careful attention to what was going to be taught in the Writing courses once the information literacy component was integrated. In Summer 2010, we piloted a one-credit course called “Introduction to Information Resources,” focusing on basic information literacy outcomes and geared to the needs of Writing 60/65 students. An advanced course, “Mapping the Information World,” Library 299 was piloted in Fall 2010. That same Fall, we offered no Library 127 classes.

However, we realized we could rebuild the Library 127 course by coordinating with the Writing 121-122 course outcomes and still offer Library 127 to students while continuing to offer the two new one-credit courses. A revised Library 127 returned to the COCC schedule of courses in Winter 2011. Both of the pilot courses and the revised Library 127 course successfully passed through the Curriculum Committee.

In Fall 2011, we began offering sections of Library 100, 127, and 227 each term. As a result of the transition and of faculty librarians' close collaboration with the Composition Committee, we have three levels of instructional credit courses where the outcomes are coordinated with the Writing curriculum.

Enrollment History in Library Courses, 2009 - 2012