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Present: Nina Scholtz, Thomas Mills, Mary Ochs, Lance Heidig, Carissa Vogel, Kaila Bussert, Tony Cosgrave, Mickey Casad, Martha Walker, Kelee Pacion, Amy Emerson (minutes)
Assessment Subteam Report:
The Assessment Subteam held a meet- and-greet in August for their members. There they brainstormed ideas of how to do assessment, including quantitative methods such as CountIt and qualitative methods. A decision has not been made yet regarding who else to bring into the subteam (such as CTE). The next Assessment meeting will be in October. Then they will discuss short term and long term objectives. Mary suggested trying to get money for a few more people to attend ACRL Assessment Program (Gaby and Camille were the last to attend.) Mary will look into when the next ACRL Assessment Program is and will make a proposal to Anne. Acceptance to the program is competitive and requires application.
Technology Subteam Report:
Chris (Chair of the Technology Subteam) was unable to attend today's meeting and therefore sent his notes to the group in advance. Chris led the first Technology Subteam meeting and drafted a proposed charge including a one year term with review at the end of the year. Tony further reported that the team feels that the current membership of four people works well, but they will reach out to other people as needed. They have compiled a list of goals including conducting an inventory of library teaching technology, performing a literature review (of what's being done at other institutions), and conducting a survey of library instructors at CUL to identify gaps and other instructional needs. They will also look into whether there is a campus-wide standard, and see what's happening in new classrooms being constructed on campus. Lance suggested that they consider how pedagogy affects teaching needs. All were reminded to review Chris's minutes distributed by email.
Programming Subteam Report:
Kaila reported that the first article discussion is scheduled for September 24 at 9:30am. The discussion will focus on Threshold Concepts in Information Literacy. Nina confirmed that we will be co-sponsoring an event with the Liaisons group on the topic of building sustainable faculty relationships. Kaila advised that the next article discussion will be on this topic. Next, Mickey reported on the notes she sent to the group via email in advance of this meeting regarding two events that the PSEC Instruciton Instruction Team is co-sponsoring with CTE and others on the topics of pedagogy and instruction. The first event will be on Sept. 19 - – Kathleen Fitzpatrick will speak about digital publishing platforms, open peer review, and the future of scholarly societies. The second event will be on Oct. 22 in Statler Auditorium - – Michael Wesch will speak about "The End of Wonder in the Age of Whatever," including examples of teaching with technology to reach digital natives. Nina suggested using the CUL Instructor's list to bring events like this to people's attention. Tony suggested that maybe we can use a chapter from the second speaker's book for the October Instruction Discussion.
Nina turned the discussion to the End of Semester Event: In the past, we've focused on reflecting on our teaching experiences. The group agreed that it's time to find a new activity to replace the Charettes. Suggestions were made to have an in house or outside speaker or find another way to have people reflect. Lance suggested working with CTE and inviting them to participate. Nina suggested letting CTE lead the program and then having a reflective elemen telement- find a way for CTE programming to apply to library instruction. Kaila will reach out to CTE to determine willingness to participate, and availability (definitely want it to be an end-of-semester event).
Lance proposed revisiting our Immersion notebooks to renew the energy. Tony suggested that maybe Immersion can somehow be reincorporated/threaded into the CTE event. Also, Lance suggested considering what the group can learn from candidate presentations being given throughout the fall on the topic of instruction.
Thomas suggested hosting a mini re-immersion in the spring semester.
Mary reminded the group to keep the Task Force Report in mind when moving forward with these ideas. Thomas suggested that there should be a subcommittee to focus on the Task Force Report. It was agreed that Nina will head a Task Force Subteam and Mary, Lance and Thomas will serve on it.
Mary also advised the group that the Instruction Team will have a half hour meeting with each AUL candidate. These will probably occur in late October/early November.

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