Nursing Lib Qual results

This morning I met with Cheryl Pratt, Nursing director, regarding the results from the Lib Qual survey. We talked about the red areas for LPN (A library website enabling me to locate information & printed materials I need for work) and what could possibly be done to make sure that our nursing students know how to access resources.

Cheryl said that the first week of the new pod we (Brooklyn Park, St. Cloud, Pasco and Ocala)should make sure that we get in to a class to introduce students to the resources available. She said that once they get past the first quarter the curriculum is so rigorous it is almost impossible to get anything else in.

Cheryl is working on curriculum right now for the nursing program. I will ask her if she can note this in the lessons.

I was also told that Eagan and Moorhead should have a nursing program up and running by January 2009.

The RN program had some red areas they were: Community space for group learning and group study; Comfortable and inviting location; Getaway for study, learning and research; Library space that inspires study and learning. We discussed that it is hard to physically change the space that is available. Cheryl talked to Bradley Moore about getting two tables in the Nursing lab, in Mankato, so that students could come in for study groups or just a quiet place to study. Here in Mankato there are days when that's all you see in the library are nursing students, good thing, but Cheryl said that sometimes they need a space to study and discuss and the way the library is set up they would disturb other students. She wishes the library had a separate room with doors so that groups would have a place to go to discuss and learn.