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Library Instruction Committee - Staff Only

October 1, 2002
Davis Conference Room
9:30 am - 11:00 am
Minutes

Present: Margaret Aquan-Yuen (Chair) Marian Davies, Helena Calogeridis, Linda Hastings, Tim Ireland (recorder), Dan Sich, Janet Wason, Melanie Watkins

Absent: Samantha Gibbon

  1. Minutes of the Meeting of August 13, 2002.

    Minutes were passed with no revisions.

  2. Business Arising

    None

  3. Additional Agenda

    None

  4. Fall Program

    Melanie indicated an initial disappointment with the turnout for the fall tours. The numbers will be analysed further next month. The discussion turned to the use of the FLEX lab for workshops and the booking of the flex lab time was debated. It is not known if library time booked in advance could be bumped by classes within the flex lab. Dan distributed the statistics for the Graduate Student Information Sessions . This year 71 people attended the grad sessions compared to 56 from last year. Suggestions for increasing tour and workshop participation included;
    • Handouts added for Student 101
    • Grad handouts
    • Advertisement page in the Gazette (approx. $1,000)
    • Interesting links off of web page (shockwave?)
    • Split Graduate Information Session (Porter and Davis)

    There were four TRELLIS sessions, 46 people attended, down from 50 last year.

    Publicity-"Get Smart" campaign went well. We are all going to keep our eyes open for new ideas for next year.

  5. Kiosk

    Potential new ideas from Dan and Janet include:
    • Effective Research Steps
    • Citation/style guides Searching Journal Indexes

    The display from the Grad house can be put up in Porter as it highlights;

    • Grad student page
    • OCUL
    • CISTI
    • Liaison Librarian list
    It was suggested that this could be used with the Web of Science index (Dan).

    Melanie and Marian are going to be looking at designing a user services display that will deal with e-reserves, and Connecting from Home.

  6. Data Form-Library Instruction Workshop Data Form

    Suggestions for changes included:
    • Revamping the "Faculty" section to include library groups
    • Changing Professor to Instructor

    Margaret and Janet are going to look at making clarifications in these areas.

  7. e-zine and news@your library

    Several suggestions for the next e-zine were discussed including -steps to find resources for research
    -e-journals-connect from home (proxy information). Tim will write up e-journal article and send to Margaret and Marian for suggestions.

  8. Appreciation Coffee Break?

    Janet volunteered to make the arrangements for the coffee break. It is designed to be a "thank you" to all those people that helped out giving tours and instruction. It is open to all library staff.

  9. Review of LINC's Terms of Reference by ISMC

    ISMC will begin reviewing LINC's Terms of Reference. Tim brought forth his concern that the membership requirements would exclude him.

  10. Around the Table

    Janet reported that the International Student orientation session was late this year since that group recommended having it later this year.

    Helena is going to look into the "TILT" index and report on it next meeting.

    UMD has decided not to offer general tours next year. They have had very low attendance and the general ES building tours include UMD in their route.

    Melanie questioned the practicality of having students sign up for library sessions. Margaret mentioned that there was registration since many of the sessions were "hands on". We will discuss the issue of registration for session that are not "hands-on" at another meeting.


November 29, 2010