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Library Instruction Committee - Staff Only

May 3, 2005
Porter 428
9:30 am - 11:00 am
Minutes

Present: Helena Calogeridis (chair), Eva Dodsworth, Sandra Keys (recorder), Melanie Watkins

Regrets: Linda Hastings

  1. Minutes of Previous Meeting (April 5, 2005)

    The minutes were approved.

  2. Additional Agenda

    Eva would like to add a session on GIS to LINC’s fall schedule. She will send information to Helena and will liaise with LT3 staff if there are is any software needing to be added to the tabletPC’s. She will probably be bringing her own laptop, but will have to have some orientation to the FlexLab.

  3. Business Arising

    1. Item 4: UMD will be changing their name, so they will not be printing business cards at this time.
    2. Item 6: “Helena will examine in-class library instruction statistics.” Some question about what statistics Helena was to analyse and the correlations which could be made between LINC instruction and in-class instruction. It is hoped that we could talk to the liaison librarians who have conducted in-class instruction to ascertain how the contact was made and what were faculty expectations, and from this information, be able to generalize to see how we can more effectively promote the LINC instruction sessions.
    3. Item 6: “Helena will discuss online instructional tools with Susan R.” Helena discussed this matter with Susan, who agreed that UW-ACE should be promoted/employed, but further discussion revealed that there could be issues with technical support and sharing amongst colleagues at other institutions. Further discussion and though needs to take place, probably after the new Davis ISR Head is in place.
    4. Helena will contact Linda regarding her action items.

  4. Library Fall Tours

    Questions: Do we do tours? How many? Who is paying?

    Based on the statistics (see Melanie’s spreadsheet previously circulated), it was decided to eliminate all 6:00pm tours and those on Friday afternoon. For the first two weeks, there will be four tours each day Monday to Thursday and two tours on Friday. For the third week, there will be four tours in total – one each in the morning and afternoon of Tuesday and Thursday.

    Action: Melanie will speak to the appropriate staff regarding the funding issue.

    We need better promotion of tours. It was suggested that the student calendar would be a good place to advertise. Action: Helena will check into this.

  5. Fall Orientation Planning

    Helena sent out a possible schedule to those previously participating in the LINC sessions. Additions to the schedule include GIS (see Additional Agenda above) and Bielstein (Laura Briggs). A couple of other changes regarding time were suggested. Most people, however, have yet to reply. Both Linda and Esther will receive information to go into the brochure from Helena next week. Helena will be booking space shortly.

    A registration form with an auto-reply feature with contextual information is being looked into and should be ready by July. A reminder will also be sent approximately one week before the event. Action: Helena will follow up with Linda.

  6. Viewlets Demonstration

    Sandra showed a Qarbon Viewlets demonstration from the Qarbon website (http://www.qarbon.com/). She and Christy Branston participated in a workshop in Kingston in April and had created viewlets in a matter of minutes! Both felt that this product would be interesting to look into as a means of online instruction/conducting online tutorials. Michelle Edwards (University of Guelph) has used the product to create Viewlets for Nesstar (http://tdr.uoguelph.ca/DATA/WKSHPS/VIEWLETS/
    tdr_nesstar.htm). Sandra will be requesting a trial of the Qarbon ViewletBuilder and will report back.

  7. New Members

    Janet Wason left the committee in March, a bit earlier than the expiration of her term in May 2005.

    Helena sent a message asking for new members. She received two expressions of interest. Rachel Caldwell will be joining LINC as an “adjunct” until the end of her contract in December 2005.

  8. Next Meeting

    June 7, 2005; Porter 512

November 29, 2010