Present: Virginia Cole, Susanne Whitaker, Kornelia Tancheva, Tony Cosgrave, Thad Dickinson, Randi Kepecs, Thomas Mills, Lance Heidig, Peter Hirtle
Absent: Ira Revels, Jill Powell, Kizer Walker
Thad reported that Jeff Liles, Ph. D., Assistant Professor of Adolescent Education, School of Education, St. John Fisher College, Rochester, NY agreed to speak at the IRPC retreat. The proposed title of his talk is: "Assessing Library Instruction: Knowing and Showing What Students Know, Think and Can Do." Thad has heard him speak at a prior conference and found him to be engaging and quite interesting. Thad will update the IRPC Steering when he attends their meeting on Monday.
Action: Randi to make Statler Hotel room reservation for Sunday, March 20th.
Action: Thad to send Randi account number.
Action: Randi to coordinate the flyer/handout to be distributed at retreat. Thad to send her information and template.
Action: Thad will check with Jeff on his equipment needs.
Publicity for Retreat:
Action: Lance to put event flagged as internal staff event into CUL events calendar and to IRPC list-serve.
Action: Kornelia will verify with IRPC Steering that they will handle room reservation, refreshments and equipment needs.
Dinner Sunday Night
Action: Kornelia to email Anne and Peter to offer invitation of dinner with Dr. Liles with Thad attending as well.
Retreat
Thad as back up will will introduce Dr. Liles. Thad will contact Dr. Lisles to determine whether he needs a moderator. If needed, Thad would act as moderator for the retreat. The group also felt that a wrap-up was not needed.
Date: Tuesday, March 1st from 9:00 am - 10:30 in 106 Olin.
Topic: To bring together library staff to share ideas and approaches to teaching in an informal discussion setting. Refreshments will be served. This forum will focus on registration. What are we currently using to keep track of workshops registrations? What are the strengths and weakness of our current systems? Several different systems will be demonstrated. Please feel free to come prepared to show your library's system if you like. We will also consider what the ideal registration system would look like.
Program to date: Kornelia will demonstrate Mann's registration system, Tony will demonstrate CIT's database registration system and the new Web Forms registration system, Thad will demonstrate the Statler Wire registration system.Marcy Rosenkrantz and Paul Houle of Library Systems are invited to attend the workshop. Hopefully an outcome of this exchange is to brainstorm a library - wide registration system.
Virginia reported that it was difficult to contact other Universities to inquire of their existing registration systems.
Action: Tony to send message to IRPC to remind them of this event.
Action: Thad to contact UC Berkeley.
Action: Tony to get contact name at Columbia University and Virginia to contact.
Action: Peter to investigate library open-source software.
Action: Kornelia to invite Holly Mistlebauer, Operations Manager at Mann Library.
The Cornell University Library is reviewing the Priority Objectives for 2005-2006.
Priority #3 is:
"Work with faculty and librarians to develop strategies to incorporate information fluency competencies into the curriculum at all levels.
Working with faculty and other partners, define information fluency learning objectives for incorporation into the curriculum. Assess the effectiveness of the Library’s instructional program and enhance the program as needed to ensure that these learning objectives are being met. E emphasize the role of librarians as consultants and participants in the instructional and research programs of the university by contributing to the educational mission of the university through partnerships with faculty and students."
Kornelia gave an update in that the committee has been reviewing their charge and they have altered some wording in the priority.
The group discussed its upcoming projects after the retreat in March.
There was a discussion of the relationships between IWG and the Strategic Priority Implementation Team. We agreed that the two groups should work closely together.Other projects for the IWG: the Idea Exchange forums. A suggestion for the next Library Instruction Idea Exchange for April was a follow up to the retreat, and a discussion of assessment. May's Idea Exchange was the latest active learning techniques.Other suggestions for further forums include: instruction statistics, staff training, and services for instructors.
A suggestion was made for the Instruction Working Group to offer some services similar to what the Center for Learning and Teaching currently offers. These may include: coaching, critique of instruction styles,working with David Way from CTL. We decided to continue this discussion at our next meeting.
Jill has a conflict with the Thursday 1-2:30 pm time, so we looked at alternatives. Two times were suggested: Wednesday from 11-12:00 pm or Friday from 10-11:00 am. Friday seemed better.
Action: Kornelia will check with Jill and schedule regular meetings on Fridays if that is acceptable to everyone.
Next Meeting: To Be Announced