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• Announcements & Updates 
  • PSEC
  • Speakers
  • Information Literacy Task Force
  • Cornell MOOCs
• End of Semester Instruction Forum 
  • Charette Protocol idea. See worksheet and powerpoint.
  • Co-host with R&O on Dec. 11 (allotted 65 min.) or host alone at another date for 90 min. ?
• Reading for next Instruction Discussion, Nov. 20. See Nina's email for choices.
• Planning for Spring semester and Summit
• IMLS grant on library services and their impact on student success. 
  Lisa Hinchliffe, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; Megan Oakleaf, Syracuse University; and Kara Malenfant, Association of College and Research Libraries have received an IMLS grant to conduct a study of the impact of library services on student learning and student success. They will be looking for 75 institutions and will have a call for applications in January.

 This is a bit more information on the study :

Three hundred colleges and universities of all types will be selected to participate in the AiA learning community (Year 1: 75 institutions; Year 2: 100 institutions; Year 3: 125 institutions). Each participating institution will identify a team consisting of a librarian and at least two additional team members as determined by the campus (e.g., faculty member, student affairs representative, institutional researchers, or academic administrator). The librarians will participate in a one-year professional development program that includes team-based activities carried out on their campuses. The institutional teams will participate in peer review and provide feedback about projects being developed by other participating teams. The projects will be documented and disseminated for use by the wider academic library and higher education communities. For more details about AiA see the project homepage.

The institutional teams for AiA will be selected through a competitive application process designed to ensure representation from an array of postsecondary institutions. Information about how to apply to participate in the first cohort will be available in January 2013.

For more information about these positions, see the full call for the peer-to-peer instructional design expert advisor and the curriculum designers/facilitators. If you have questions about these positions, the Assessment in Action project, or ACRL's Value of Academic Libraries initiative, please contact Kara Malenfant, ACRL Senior Strategist for Special Initiatives, at kmalenfant@ala.org or (312) 280-2510.

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October 2012

Agenda

• Discussion with Information Literacy Task Force members (20 minutes)
• CUL MediaSpace categories for instructional videos 
• Articles/Topics for Fall Instruction Discussions
• Announcements & Updates
  • Budget status and speakers
  • Information Literacy month 
  • MOOCs

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