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1. Housekeeping - 5m
   1. Note taker/additional agenda items
2. All-staff takeaways - 5m
3. Sub-team updates - 20m
   1. Website
   2. Technology/Learning Spaces
   3. LibGuides
   4. Assessment
   5. Programming
   6. Information Literacy/Instruction Leadership
4. Instruction assessment rollout - 10m
5. Instruction brochure - 10m

Notetaker: Jeremy Cusker

All-staff meeting notes: For the 'instruction-centric' question discussed ("How do we make students more digitally/information literate?"), Amy and Erin facilitated. Ideas proposed included further collaboration with Center for Teaching Excellence and Academic Technologies. At the event, Kornelia agreed it was important to discuss further and there will be another discussion of this specific point on March 3 at 2 PM (details to follow). Kornelia really wants to see these discussions lead to something tangible.

Sub-team reports:

-Website: New site is live, according to brief note forwarded along by Mickey. Testimonials now included. Workshop listing also live, although 'currency' a bit in doubt. Somewhat hard to find given overall navigation. Also "Instruction" link goes directly to request form. Maybe it would make more sense to instead say "Request Instruction".

-Technology and Learning Spaces: All PSEC Instruction team members, plus Bob Kotaska and Lynn Bertoia, have trial LibCal accounts. All are encouraged to play around with them. Return feedback to Jeremy by end of February.

-LibGuides: Series of fixes instituted, including removal of course guides from subject guides.

-Assessment: had meeting. Emails to all instruction coordinators regarding survey going out. Idea for 2016 fall: Linking assessment to instruction, tie into the goals discussed at the all-staff meeting. New way of creating surveys put into place, as is streamlining compilation of the data. This will likely be a mandate within those libraries (like Mann) where it is not already. Use of the survey electronically may be difficulty in situations where instruction takes place in classrooms without computers in place (i.e. RMC, where paper forms are being used). At Mann, use of the survey is already mandatory and paper forms are not to be used.

-Programming: Lance not present but sent message: Working on May event planning, "Communicating Your Value", a program based on the earlier SPARC talks program. Collaborating with Prof. D. Feldshuh in Theater; program to focus on public speaking skills; he would be the main speaker during this event.

Overall, goal of Programming to have a problem every month now seen as impractical/unrealistic.

-Information literacy: Mentoring and teaching observation program going forward. Will be discussed with steering committee, then brought up at PSEC Instruction again.

Instruction brochure: Draft text went out by email. Text generally approved-of.

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