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Library Instruction Committee - Staff Only

September 6, 2005
Davis Centre Conference Room
9:30 - 11:00
Minutes

Present: Rachel Caldwell (recorder), Helena Calogeridis (chair), Sandra Keys, Melanie Watkins

Regrets: Eva Dodsworth, Linda Hastings, Laurie Strome

  1. Minutes of the Previous Meeting (April 5, 2005)
    Awaiting approval via email – the minutes from the previous meeting was not available.

  2. Business Arising - none

  3. Welcome Rachel Caldwell
    Rachel will be serving as an active member with LINC until her contract expires in December 2005.

  4. Laurie Strome to fill-in at LINC meetings for Melanie Watkins
    Laurie will temporarily act as a replacement for Melanie due to conflicting schedules with LINC and the respective Managers meetings. Laurie brings with her related experience from organizing Library events (e.g., Student Life 101, Campus Day, etc.).

  5. RefWorks Library Guide
    Sandra Keys has created a draft of a General Library Guide for use of the bibliographic citation manager program, RefWorks. This guide is based on the one provided by the University of Guelph Library and is the first in a series of three guides covering the various features provided by RefWorks. The first guide will provide the basics for starting an account and the overall general use of RefWorks. Meanwhile, the second and third guides in this series will respectively cover the Write-n-Cite and Exporting Database Info features. Items for LINC to consider with these guides are workshops, email system, and RefWorks’ place on the Online Reference Shelf.
    ACTION: Members of LINC should get back to Sandra with revision suggestions pertaining to the current draft of the first RefWorks Guide.

  6. Orientation
    The Fall Workshop brochure that is currently being distributed is missing registration information regarding Eva’s GIS data. However, the registration information is provided online.

    Several faculty members have asked for already scheduled LINC sessions to be switched due to conflicts in their respective schedules.

    Most of the instruction information on the LINC page should be available by the middle of next week.

  7. Other Projects
    On Friday, July 8 (2005), Helena sent out an email to the group regarding “some new ideas for LINC to ponder”. These previous ideas, plus new additions, are listed below:

    • “Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Library – Don’t Panic” – Jim Parrott has forwarded the idea to LINC regarding a guide/brochure insert providing helpful information about the Library’s services and resources. ACTION: Rachel Caldwell will forward some documents that she has written for Library Communications and Development that may encompass the information needed for fulfilling Jim’s idea.

    • Dan Sich put forward the idea of LINC assembling a general Library Guide based on a similar guide provided on Humber’s library pages called “Putting Together an Assignment.”

    • International Students Library page (LINC’s incomplete project form last summer) – Rachel Caldwell will be working on assembling the remainder of this section.

    • At the suggestion of librarian, Erin Murphy, an introductory Library Guide covering Google Scholar should be created – input from the other ISR liaisons is needed. This project has been assigned to ISR co-op student, Kevin Manuel.

    • RefWorks Library Guide series – see item #6 on today’s agenda.

    • ACTION: Sandra Keys will compile a list of LINC sponsored Library Guides in order to check for currency of info.

  8. LINC REPORT
    By the end of September (2005), LINC needs to submit a report to Jennifer Haas. (Helena Calogeridis is working on this.)

  9. Online Tutorials
    The creation/style of online tutorials needs to be re-examined, as well as readdressed with Susan Routliffe. Examples of tutorials include “Using TRELLIS” and “How to Research Effectively”.

  10. Email Reminder for Workshops
    Although it won’t be in effect this year, the sending of automated email reminders to library workshop registrants should be considered so that actual attendance improves.

  11. Meetings Relevant to LINC
    There are two relevant meetings/conferences happening before the end of this year. The first is happening in Aurora, New York on September 23rd, while the other will take place at the University of Alberta around Dec. 13th. Meanwhile, Sandra Keys is working on the report for the Willow conference (held this past spring), and Laura Briggs will have the report for the LOEX conference. The future locations for Willow will be: Halifax (2006) and York University (2007).

  12. Status of Linda Hastings
    It is unclear when Linda Hastings will be officially returning to work. ACTION: Helena will contact library administration regarding this matter.

Next Meeting: Tuesday, October 4, 2005 from 9:30 am to 11:00 am (Davis Lib)


November 29, 2010