The research demands of Evidence-Based Practice courses in the Nursing curriculum benefit from Information Literacy instruction. This presentation details how a librarian in a new position serving a large Nursing program navigated the challenges of working to establish ties with Nursing faculty, negotiated providing information literacy instruction for about 12-15 sections of the required EBP course per semester during the early stages of the Covid-19 pandemic lockdowns and protracted period of remote and asynchronous course offerings. In remote and asynchronous courses, synchronous online instruction was not permitted. The solution was to provide a YouTube-style channel of instructional videos to meet the needs of faculty and students. While this method was devised in response to the pandemic, it will continue beyond. This presentation provides details on how Kaltura was leveraged to provide items that were familiar to students, flexible for faculty, and how they became assigned activities in all EBP courses that allowed the librarian to scale instruction to a new, more expansive audience in the new position. The results of this exploration have been published in Medical Reference Services Quarterly and further research including pre- and post-testing continues.
Learning Outcomes:
- Participants will discover YouTube features that can most easily be mimicked using the Kaltura video platform in order to take advantage of the strategy on Kaltura or similar platforms at their home institutions.
- Participants will be encouraged to evaluate the adjustments made during the pandemic in order to determine whether to continue utilizing them.
Presented at the 2022 ALAO (Academic Library Association of Ohio) conference
