Over the past years, a team of librarians and Center for Academic Development (CAD) faculty members have been involved in a collaborative project aiming at enhancing the CAD students’ information literacy skills. This collaboration has been considered as a strategic priority for the library to promote not only its role as a learning center, but also to forge an effective library and CAD partnership. The following presentation will address the needs of this collaborative partnership and how it contributes to the development of AUI students’ learning achievement. It will highlight challenges surrounding the process of implementation of this project and propose potential strategies for expansion on a campus wide scale. Keywords: library, literacy information, library faculty collaboration, library instruction, learning, cooperation, workplace information literacy, interdisciplinary

1. Developing Faculty-Librarian Partnership :
Collaborative Initiative at Al Akhawayn
University in Ifrane ( AUI )
Aziz El Hassani Hanane Kakrour
Multimedia Librarian User Service Librarian
Al Akhawayn University in Ifrane

2. Over the past years, a team of librarians and Center for Academic
Development (CAD) faculty members have been involved in a collaborative
project aiming at enhancing the CAD students’ information literacy skills.
This collaboration has been considered as a strategic priority for the
library to promote not only its role as a learning center, but also to forge
an effective library and CAD partnership. The following presentation will
address the needs of this collaborative partnership and how it contributes
to the development of AUI students’ learning achievement. It will highlight
challenges surrounding the process of implementation of this project and
propose potential strategies for expansion on a campus wide scale.
Keywords: library, literacy information, library faculty collaboration,
library instruction, learning, cooperation, workplace information literacy,
interdisciplinary
Faculty-Librarian Partnership: A Collaborative Initiative at AUI

3.  General Information (AUI)
 Collaboration (between Library & CAD)
 Goals & objectives
 Rewards & challenges
 Information Literacy Program
 Strategies for expansion
Presentation Outline

4.  Founded in 1995
 Total student body = Over 1800
 Most popular majors
1. Science and engineering
2. Business Administration
3. Humanities and Social Sciences
 A uniquely international common core program for all undergraduate students, providing
the basis for a well-rounded global education.
 Rich academics, in English, encouraging choice and experimentation, in all schools and
programs of study.
About Al Akhawayn University in Ifrane
“ Al Akhawayn University in Ifrane is an independent, public, not-for profit, coeducational, Moroccan
university committed to educating future citizen-leaders of Morocco and the world through a globally
oriented, English-language, liberal arts curriculum based on the American system.”

5. Mohammed VI Library
http://www.aui.ma/library
About the Mohammed VI Library & CAD
the Center for Academic Development (CAD)
http://www.aui.ma/en/cad
The owned holdings of the Mohammed
VI Library include :
 Over 84.000 print volumes
1850 audio/vidoe itemes
355 current print periodical
 Our collection is growing at a rate of
approximately 4000 itemes per year
The Library grants access to over 25
online databes that provide content from
over 40.000 electronic journals.
The purpose of the Center for Academic
Development (CAD) is to help students
improve the quality of their study and
learning, with a view to enabling them to
maximize their own potential and to make
efficient use of the resources offered by
the University. In CAD courses, students
learn research and study skills, approaches
to problem solving, critical thinking, and
group interaction skills.

6. Date : Collaboration Begins – August 2005
 To promote the role of the Library as a learning center
 To forge an effective library and CAD partnership.
 To enhance students learning and research, and help them
develop their information competencies.
 To equip AUI students for lifelong learning in an evolving
information universe.
Goals and objectives

7.  SSK 1211: Strategic Learning and Study Skills
 Basic Research skills
 Research methods
 Searching the OPAC ( Basic search )
 SSK 1212: Information Literacy Skills Prerequisite
 Searching Library Databases
 Searching the OPAC ( Advanced search )
 Citation management and research
 SSK 1213: Critical Thinking and Analysis Skills Prerequisites
Our Information Literacy Program

8.  6-computer instruction rooms
 Standardized content
 Handout and online materials
 Active learning exercises
 1 hour of instruction
 Our library instructional committee: 6 librarians
Workshop Details

9. IL Program Collaboration
58 84 67
117 118 121
707
958 938
1338
1832
2043
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500
1000
1500
2000
2500
2006-2007 2007-2008 2008-2009 2009 /2010 2010 / 2011 2011 / 2012
Total Classes
Total Attendees
Use of Workshop Program at Al Akhawayn University : (2006 to 2012)

10.  Pre-planning
 Post-workshops evaluation
 Regular communication
 Shared logistics work
 Standardized, one-hour IL workshops
 One-shot IL instruction sessions
Our Collaborative Process

11. What we learned
 Library and faculty collaboration further enhanced
 Librarians and students worked together
 Librarians gained knowledge of student information needs
 IL Increased library usage
Plans for the future
 Continue to explore innovative ways to support AUI students and expand
Information literacy to the entire campus
Rewards

12.  Assessing the impact of Information Literacy program on AUI
students’ learning and achievement
 Extending the experience to the rest of AUI schools
 Not all AUI Faculty are willing to incorporate IL objectives into
classroom.
Challenges

13. Thank you
Our Contact information
Aziz El Hassani, Al Akhawayn University
Email: a.elhassani@aui.ma
Hanane Karkour Al Akhawayn University
Email: h.karkour@aui.ma