Information Literacy Team Meeting

Minutes

Tuesday May 5, 2004 at 11:00 in room 138 

Attendees: Brianna, Evan, Carol, JaNae, Lonna, Fran

Excused: Art, Wade, Don, Kathy, Shaun, Joan

Announcements

• Student End of course evaluations, remember, these are now on chitester, not on SNAP. Tell students to go to Chitester.weber.edu, click on "Take a test", then they will need to enter their 88#, then they will click on the instructors name or course, then on the evaluation form. This form is secure and will supposedly enable  cross section comparisons. Jamie will compile results and distribute as usual.
• Congrats to JaNae on Shaun on their recent article on GIS in Computers in Libraries!
• UALC Fall Retreat in Zion Park - October 21 and 22
  • http://home.utah.edu/~u0420222/UALC_invite.html    
  • Let Emily Paladino know, from link above, if you are interested in attending
• As may arise - Carol will be taking a leave to work at Zayed University in Abu Dhabi. Joan will let the team know how Carol's position and responsibilities will be reconfigured at a later date.

Discussion

1. Gen Ed reform and undergrad research committee updates from Carol - these three presidential initiatives offer the library useful and important opportunities for further integrating and promoting information literacy across the curriculum. Let Joan know if you are interested in serving on one of these committees as Carol is leaving.
   1. First Year Student Success initiative committee - Carol met briefly with Bruce Bowen, Associate Provost, on Monday and he is interested in working with us as his task force goes forward in planning for first year student success.
2. Upward Bound (strongly relates to student success initiative and where we are going with face to face navigator) - Carol will set up a meeting to begin planning this instruction next week.
3. English 2010 new draft exercise design - We have a new design via K Stevenson and her student  Andrew Clark, a senior in Graphic Design who works at Standard Examiner. He followed instructions from Fran, Lonna and Carol's subcommittee. The team liked his first draft and think it is an improvement on what we have. Team members will give Carol, Fran or Lonna feedback on the draft before Tuesday May 11 at noon. We will then meet with Andrew again next week to give him feedback for an almost final draft. Fran says the final draft needs to be printed by June 16. Since we are printing so many copies for so many students let's make it look as nice as we can. Your feedback is important, especially since you will be the ones using it!
4. Web CT and the Internet Navigator - this is a great deal of work, but it is coming along. Carol will work with a graphic designer next week to input new graphic headers on every page. Carol begins teaching this May 17. Kathy, Art and Shaun begin teaching a month later.
5. Instruction data database - It seems to be working well. Carol will ask jamie to oversee inputting the rest of the data for this year from the purple sheets (before march). Carey needs to have the page added to her portal, Carol will follow up with Ben Barraza on this.
6. Fars - Carol asks team members to please let her know about any info lit related accomplishements, such as assessments, CE or scholarship activities so she may be sure to highlight these in her annual report. Team members are curious to know when Far's and annual reports are due?

05/04/2004