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Distributed Learning Advisory Committee (DLAC)

Meeting Notes

Updates: Oya Y. Rieger and Ira Revels will meet with the Academic Technology Center's CourseInfo consultants to discuss how to streamline the inclusion of library collections and services within course web sites. This is a follow-up step to one of the recommendations of the January retreat on impact of distributed learning on instruction and reference services (http://www.library.cornell.edu/DL/IRSC.pdf). The group expressed the need for CUL and ATC to co-develop procedures to systematically include the CUL services and programs in CourseInfo.

Agenda: The meeting focused on discussing the next steps to develop a CUL distributed learning Web site, which will offer a suite of services to support faculty in their technology-mediated instruction. The envisioned web site will highlight the Library's key services for faculty and off-campus (distance) students and also provide a gateway for unit libraries’ related pages that further articulate these services. Such a web site will be especially useful to represent the Library on distributed learning resource pages that are emerging on various Cornell web sites (e.g., CIT, School of Continuing Education, Technology and Media Services). We'll approach the development of the web site in three phases and make sure that the Web site incorporates feedback from various CUL groups:

1) Services for faculty Seek input from Public Services Executive Committee to refine the contents of the existing prototype. Inform the Council of Librarians and the Library Management Team of the vision and get their feedback.

2) Services for "distance" students Gather information from Public Services Executive Committee and Susan Currie to compose a matrix of library privileges for various type of students to be reviewed by the Distributed Learning Advisory Committee. This track of work is especially important as the School of Continuing Education is interested in communicating this information to their prospective students.

3) Digital library consultancy services (e.g., copyright, digitization, metadata, database design, etc.) - discussion postponed for a future advisory committee meeting.

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