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

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March 9, 2016 minutes

1. Housekeeping - 5m
   1. Note taker/additional agenda items- Kelee taking notes
2. Sub-team updates - 20m
   1. Website-confirm website is ready to announce. They are going to send the announcement to CUL. Review of draft in meeting. Going to change wording of PSEC Instruction to team and not committee. Otherwise looks great. Change bullet in best practices from “discuss which” to “discuss what”(changed by Nina).
   2. Technology/Learning Spaces-sample accounts to libcal are out. We have received no complaints about using libcal. Need to take next steps to go live with libcal for CUL. Perhaps by the end of the month. Want to test in summer. Discussion of training and how to include anyone that might be interested.
   3. LibGuides- next meeting is this friday. want to talk about libguides programming for the summer (requested by liaison steering committee).
   4. Assessment- no updates.  Waiting for surveys. Will start meeting soon to talk about next steps in how to collate data. Talked about possibility of getting student help to get the data together.
   5. Programming- meeting with R&O to plan collaborative end of semester event- will have David Felcher do a session on teaching as performance. Postponed discussion of planning around this event. trying to get a  feel from Kornelia to frame program around the new goals. Waiting to see what is needed based on results from the discussions and results of assessment survey.
   6. Information Literacy/Instruction Leadership-going to meet with CTE and discuss peer observation form and discuss end of semester event, and institute for end of semester (JR Faculty Institute). Discussion of which folks should go, possibility of a librarian that teaches a for credit class. Ball is in our court on working with CTE to conduct library training in teaching.  What would it look like and why would we want to participate in this? Discussion of for credit classes and pros and cons- sustainability and scalability and how useful are they?  how to we improve relevancy and efficiency? Talk about how to balance all types.
3. Moving the Peer Observation program forward - 10m-

https://confluence.cornell.edu/display/instruct/Peer+Observation

How would this work? reviewed notes left by Meghan. Chris will send out notes and ask folks to comment on the notes. How do we move it forward?  Need to have one person to be in charge of this to try and plan next steps to create this program.

1. Review of Focus Area Discussion on "Preparing Students to Use and Produce Knowledge in the Digital World" held March 3 - 10m-     identify goals for the coming year.
   1. increase capacity for open instruction how to function in a digital environment (video instruction included) increase open workshops. want to reach all audiences including alumni
   2. explore opportunities to increase IL into curriculum (increase number and variety of for credit classes) Integrate the framework
   3. provide staff training-  not fully identified as to what this would look like.
   4. Miscellaneous/Additional agenda items- none

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