Present: Christy Branston, Helena Calogeridis, Judy McTaggart, Jim Parrott, Richard Pinnell, Susan Routliffe (Chair), Jackie Stapleton, Linda Teather, Melanie Watkins, Rose Koebel (Recorder)
Regrets: Mary Stanley
Minutes of Previous Meeting
The minutes of the meeting of March
18, 2003 were approved.
Review of Reference Service: Environmental Scan
ISMC considered the purpose of doing an environmental scan. The results
of the scan will help inform any recommendations ISMC might make for the future
of reference service. The question of how
and when research will begin on the elements of the scan will be set aside
for future discussion. The next step should
involve getting feedback from others about the factors that we’ve identified
that may influence reference service. ISMC reviewed the list Melanie prepared
based on discussion at the last meeting. Among
the changes was a suggestion to remove the term “environmental scan”
from the document. Action items include:
Melanie will modify the list to include today’s suggestions.
Christy will take the revised document to an ISR meeting on May 2 in order to find out if others think anything needs to be added to the list of factors.
Charter for an Assessment Project
The Committee reviewed the tasks associated with developing a project charter
as listed under section 4) Assess user needs of the Ghant chart. Linda will
revise the chart to include the suggestions made today, and will post the
chart for the work breakdown structure on the Web.
The Committee began to develop a charter for the assessment of user needs, starting with the statement of purpose proposed by Helena. Susan will formulate the statement to reflect today’s discussion.
Next Meeting: May 20, at Davis. Topic(s) for discussion: feedback from May 2 IRS meeting and project charter for the assessment of user needs (scope, methodology).