Discusses the development of a World Wide Web bibliographic instruction resource at the University of California at Santa Cruz called the "Library Starter Kit" Describes the initial project, its growth and expanded development, the guidelines used in its creation, discussions of usage, and future additions.

Each Fall thousands of new students arrive at the University of California at Santa Cruz and the Library’s goal is to ensure that each new user has the basic skills to enable them to find, evaluate and use information resources from print, online and Znternetbased sources. But the reality is that the orientation programs, online classes and printed documentation the library provides may not be available when and where students need them. Our Bibliographic Instruction program had to evolve to meet the needs of an increasingly diverse user population with varying learning styles. The World Wide Web (WWW) offered a new medium to address this need, with the potential for providing a self-directed approach to learning available all hours from any WWW station on or off campus. A conzbination of grants, student developers and lots of sweat equity were used to initially create a WWW Virtual Tour of the McHenry Library. This was expanded to become the “Library Starter Kit” (http:/!ob.ucsc.edu/library/reefnstruction/skit), a WWW resource that provides new users with the basics for getting started with library research

Librarians are an essential part of the diverse community of campus stakeholders focused on student success. Establishing a mutually understood and shared foundation of concepts is critical if we wish to collaborate successfully with these stakeholders on assessment projects and ultimately integrating Information Literacy into campus learning outcomes and student success goals. The process of developing and normalizing a collectively accepted understanding of Information Literacy between librarians, faculty and institutional research partners was more of a challenge than anticipated and required research, discussion, documentation, and patience to achieve.

Presentation at the Third Annual UCSC Assessment Symposium, Santa Cruz, CA. 01/27/2017.