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Community Needs Assessment Committee • Minutes

Thursday, September 11, 2003
10:00-11:30am
Porter Meeting Room 407

Present: Shabiran Rahman, Wish Leonard, Anne Fullerton, Jane Britton, Jamie Russell
Guests: Janet Wason, Christy Branston


1. Approval of minutes from the June 26th meeting

The minutes from the June 26th meeting were approved with minor changes.

2. Guest Speaker: Christy Branston

Christie attended this meeting as a representative from the Focus Group team working on the Reference Service Review. They plan to conduct eight 1 hour focus groups in late October/November. There will be two undergraduate groups comprised of students from the Arts & Humanities, two undergraduate groups comprised of students from Math, Science, & Engineering. Efforts are being made to contact students from 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th years, as well as part-time students. There will be two graduate groups from any discipline, one faculty group, and one group of students registered with the Office of Persons with Disabilities. The participants will be randomly selected from lists created from the Library's circulation database, excluding the group of persons registered with the Office of Persons with Disabilities. This group has already been organized by the OPD on a voluntary basis. Participants will be contacted by email.

3. Guest Speaker: Janet Wason

Janet came to speak to our committee in regards to the library's Accessibility Plan. Besides the performance of an accessibility audit (which targets physical elements) at UMD, Davis and Porter, she was interested in exploring other issues surrounding students with disabilities and wanted CNAC to assist. We discussed the various options she had and decided that a thorough survey would be most effective. CNAC was willing to take on this assessment project and will apply to LBPC for permission.

4. Business Arising
a. NVivo software- Still has not arrived.
b. Call for a non-participant recorder- CNAC has decided that recording will be done internally within the group.
c. LibQual Data Analysis for UW- Anne Fullerton will present CNAC with her findings at the first meeting in December, 2003.

5. Future Plans

CNAC will continue meeting on a bi-weekly basis.

Next Meeting: Thursday, September 25th, DP 512A

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