17 Association of Research Libraries Research Library Issues 301 2020 of opportunities for high-impact undergraduate engagement programming. To organize our thinking, we categorized our programming into three areas: Library-led programming—initiatives started and managed by the UIC Library—include examples such as finals week programming, our Wall of Encouragement (a space in which students are invited to leave sticky notes with encouraging remarks to make visible students’ solidarity and community), and our new Pop-Up Library (for which students conceptualized designs and voted to select their favorite and which is now being manufactured in order to appear at future events on campus with curated titles available for borrowing). Library collaborations—long-term relationships built into existing curricular models—include fundamental support for all first-year writing courses in the form of one instruction session per class and our ongoing relationship with the Writing Center. Campus collaborations—initiatives led by other campus entities in which we play a support or outreach role—include examples such as assisting with university orientation sessions, participating in a task force focusing on the needs of first- generation students, or providing workshops on information literacy to specific groups on request. In order to determine the UEP’s programming, an evaluation of existing relevant services on campus was essential. The evaluation of existing services and areas for growth were identified in the process of creating the logic models. These primary drivers also helped to avoid replicating programming and initiatives already underway on campus and were also essential to avoid undermining the good work campus partners are already doing—campus partners who are experts in their own areas of focus.
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