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Minutes for October 2, 2013 Meeting

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Present: Nina Scholtz, Thomas Mills, Chris Miller, Tony Cosgrave, Mary Ochs, Kaila Bussert, Gaby Castro Gessner, Kelee Pacion, Mickey Casad, Martha Walker, Amy Emerson(minutes)

1. Announcements

• Nina: We have been offered time with the Student Library Advisory Council (SLAC) (15-20) minutes, and are tentatively scheduled for the November 18 meeting at 5pm. Nina would like to create a list of discussion items and would like to put together a small team to plan for it. Mary volunteered because she put together a small presentation on Info. Lit. for them a few years ago.
• Nina: AUL interviews will begin Oct. 15. PSEC-I has been granted half hour slots with the candidates. Only the Chairs team will attend (Nina, Thomas, Kaila, Mary). There will be separate open forums with the candidate for others to ask questions, as well as presentations by the candidates.
  • Discussion points for the candidates: What are their visions for instruction? What kind of resources would they give to it? Internal candidates - how much do they know about what PSEC has done in the past few years. For external candidates, we have a web presence where they should see this. Focus on their ability to work with administration and faculty to promote library instruction. It's important that they feel instruction is important so they can represent it to others. Also, we need to know what kind of library instruction experience they have. There should be questions about supporting professional development for instructors, and knowledge of/support for Immersion. Nina will create a page on the wiki that is devoted to the interviews that will include the job description and the above discussion points.
• Mickey: Mickey arranged a meeting for tomorrow morning at 10:45am in Mann 160 with Michael Wesch. He is an inspiring speaker and it would be good to talk to him about what we're doing and ways to reach out to undergrads. His talk is tomorrow at 4pm in Statler. Mickey will take notes about the discussion to share with the group.

2. Assessment Sub-team Report
Assessment Report meant to be a "Did you know?" about Instruction....not a report. It contains information about enrollment in courses. There is not one single course that is taught across the university. There will be a more formal report that will be more tailored to each unit. It was established that Gaby will assist with the Information Literacy sub-team.

3. Information Literacy Sub-team Report
Mary proposed that we hold Lightening Talks at our PSEC-I Team meetings in which each unit speaks about their plans and what they're doing to implement those plans. Mary will resend the Task Force Report see everyone can see what their units were going to do.
The idea is to keep building a cohesive program for information literacy (not every unit does the same thing, but we are trying to make things dovetail and reach as many students as possible). Therefore, the official reps from this group have an assignment to go back and talk to their units and then make a report at the next meeting.
After further discussion it was decided that Mary will get the question from Chris' group, then will send the questions out to the reps in our group here. There will be 3 reports in November and 4 reports in December. Each unit will provide a 15 minutes overview instead of lightening talks.
Reporters: Chris, Lance, Kelee - November
Carissa, Martha, Jeremy, Tony - December
Some draft questions for presenter to consider (from Mary's email of 10/02/2013):

• Is what the libraries in your cluster proposed in the TF Report still the plan?
• If so, what progress have you made? If not, what has changed?
• What are your next steps?
• Have your librarians used their Immersion training in your information literacy work?
  Gaby suggested adding: Do you need any support?
  Chris suggested making this a general overview - What is the current landscape in your cluster, what is the number of classes, cycle, logistics...
  Gaby suggested adding: What kinds of skills have librarians incorporated into their teachings from the Immersion training?
  Thomas suggested that Chris' portion be submitted as a mini-background report in writing in advance so speakers can focus on pilots.
  Chris suggested that maybe a template of a questions can be created to fill out in advance.
  Thomas noted that this will be helpful to the AUL.

4. Programming Sub-team Report
Nina announced a future program on building faculty relationships that will occur on Oct. 28, Noon-1pm. Will be earlier than Lee Cartmill's reception. Will be held at the Law School. Panel discussion with 4 Panelists: Lance Heidig, Diane Dietrich Sarah Wright, Fred Muraturi. Nina will moderate. PSEC-I and the Liaisons group are co-sponsoring. Advance questions are encouraged. It is meant to be more of a discussion/conversation than a panel presentation.
Thomas and Kaila reported on the first instruction discussion. Had good attendance numbers and it was a good concept to discuss. Issue: When to have our second discussion of the semester - plan: build off the topic of building faculty relationships. So probably early November
Nina will provide an Admin. Law Research class for CUL this fall. She is looking at November.
Chris is putting together a business research presentation as well . Will include other people. Will hold this one off until January because the fall is already so full. Probably will be three or four sessions. He has four people who want to participate. Deciding how to split it up - ie ILR stuff, or take business research from the ground up...etc. Start with the first one in mid-January.
Other programming ideas: Showcasing people who have presented at a conference or done a great project. Allows people here at CUL to see what people have done outside of Cornell. Maybe also have a web presence so the wider world can see as well. Focus on talks related to instruction.
Chris and Kaila announced that the LOEX Conference is coming up. This is a good opportunity for people who want to present. Taking place in Grand Rapids, MI. Two options: presentation or interactive workshop.

5. Next Meeting
Nov. 6 - Meeting will begin at 11am and go to 12:30. Camille and Suzette will join the meeting to have a webinar demo on Evanced. The second half of the meeting will be unit reports.

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Minutes for September 4, 2013 Meeting

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