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1.  Announcements

• • Ashley Shea will defer year as chair to start July 2021; Jeremy Cusker will serve as chair for 2020-2021
  • Update from Orientation planning group
    • For Fall 2020 Orientation, we need to plan for 3 possibilities: all virtual; in person; or a hybrid
  • Update about COVID-19 Response Instructional Support Team
    
    

       2.  Updates and Discussion about work of LibGuides subteam and work on accessibility compliance

• • LibGuides now in SiteImprove. Can give score on accessibility compliance. Overall, guides now at ~76%. Goal is to get them up to 95% compliance.
•  Discussion around current virtual instruction efforts
• How many new instruction requests have units received since moving to remote instruction?
• What does instruction look like currently; how has it changed? Is anyone making use of tutorials? Other types of interactions that might qualify as instruction?
• What ways can we track these other types of instruction activity? (Hold over to May Meeting)
•  Are our current assessment goals around in-person interaction only? (Hold over to May meeting)
  

1. Announcements
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March 3 Cornell Online Learning Community panel (Lynn)
The event began with a "test kitchen" of accessibility tools. This mostly consisted of handouts, but there were a few workstations where individuals could try out making recordings, etc. A student who identifies as deaf/blind presented, through video, her experiences navigating Cornell resources and instruction. Coming from the Rochester Institute for Technology, which specializes in accessible teaching and resources, she has found making the adjustment to Cornell very challenging. Cyrus Vance, from Student Disability Services and Angela Winfield, associate vice president for inclusion and workforce diversity, were also on the panel. It was especially helpful to hear the perspectives of the student, and Angela Winfield, who is blind. On the panel, I spoke about learning to use screenreading software as a way to better understand how to create more accessible content in library guides.


3. March 9 SLAC meeting (Lynn)
   Only 3 SLAC members attended this meeting, along with Selena, Reanna, Gerald, and me. There was some discussion about what kinds of online learning materials would be helpful, but the students also admitted that they were unlikely to watch videos, or do tutorials and stressed that they want help when they need it. They felt that the Ask a Librarian link should be more prominent on the homepage so that more students we be aware that this is an option for their research questions.
   
   
4.  Report on work of COVID-19 Response Instructional Support Team 
   
   
5.  SubTeam Updates
   1. LibGuides: 
   • • Lynn has made a very good video on how to make new LibGuides, both as an instructional aide for some of the CUL staff who may not have experience with it and for all CUL staff making new LibGuides in order to make them accessibility-compliant: https://cornell.box.com/s/s63lbklk25dy9ty98erxv8mskm48oqgn
     • With the current situation, our guidance on integrating LibGuides into Canvas has rapidly moved from 'pilot' to 'production', so to speak. A LibGuide giving instructions on how to do this process (which requires steps to be taken by both the Canvas administrator and the librarian) is here and was sent out to GUIDES-L and to a list of relevant unit representatives as well: https://guides.library.cornell.edu/canvas
     • We are currently investigating whether it is actually necessary to have Admin status to make the Custom Metadata changes in that LibGuide described or whether you can still make them to your own guides as a 'mere' guide Editor.
       
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7. Unit Updates, including Unit COVID-19 Response efforts
   
   1. Mann (Mel and Ashley):

      As of March 13, Mann had 34 instruction sessions (including working sessions/course workshops) scheduled for 17 different courses. Each librarian has been in communication with the faculty teaching the course to determine the best method for instruction delivery. In some cases, faculty have decided to delete the associated assignment and, therefore, the instruction or wait until classes resume to assess the needs of their students.

      For those classes still on the calendar, approaches include the following: providing a copy of the Power Point along with detailed slide notes, creating a video (this is being done for the presentations on zines), creating a course guide, providing support through Canvas and using Zoom.

      For a large AEM class (about 300 students) students will most likely receive the content via a recorded Zoom session. Since students would meet with the librarian for smaller working sessions, the tentative plan is to set these up as Zoom appointments.

      The classes providing the biggest challenge are those that were scheduled to use Makerspace services such as the 3D laser printing or video editing. Alternatives are being investigated and it is likely that some assignments might be modified to reflect the challenges of accessing physical materials.

      Ashley is teaching the remaining class sessions of the 1-credit Information Chaos course through a combination of 3 hours of synchronous instruction along with Zoom recordings (already scheduled to record on specific dates/times). Ashley notes that best practices indicate that breaking a 50-minute presentation into 5-minute chunks allows for more accessible discussion. She will be continuing to provide online discussion prompts which is something that she did prior to the cancellation of classes.

      All Mann librarians are using some remote work to review library course and subject guides for currency and accessibility making use of the LibGuides Subteam “cheat sheet.” Mann library staff are also providing support to Mann colleagues for Zoom and Canvas. Some instruction librarians/staff have also increased their hours for LibChat, LibAnswers and virtual reference.

       

       

       
      

1. a. Aliqae's last meeting - many thanks for all you've done for the Team!
2. b. Alison is transitioning to a new position at Law
3. c. Uris Library Electronic Classroom - CIT has given up control of this room, and there is an opportunity to renovate and to imagine our ideal teaching space - stay tuned!

1. Announcements/Updates

   a. Welcome to Christina Sheley as our new Director Sponsor 

   b. Unit news

• Leah Dodd is the new Research Services Lead for Research & Learning Services, Olin & Uris Libraries
  

   c. Report on January Orientation workshops (1/16)

• Aliqae had 9 and Jeremy had 7 participants; better turnout than fall orientation workshops when held in September
  
• Thanks to Elizabeth Kim for all the help with publicity via quarter cards, posters, CU Events calendar, digital signs in Olin, Uris, Mann, and ILR now, plus day-of sandwich board announcements outside Olin and Mann to catch foot traffic, along with flyers for Mann and Catherwood doors.
  
• For Fall Orientation, Lynn suggested looking into doing orientation with RAs
  

   d. Report on 12/17 (10:00am Mann 160) discussion on reading: Lane Glisson, “Breaking the Spin Cycle: Teaching Complexity in the Age of Fake News”, portal: Libraries and the Academy 19(3) (2019), https://preprint.press.jhu.edu/portal/sites/ajm/files/19.3glisson.pdf

• Five people came; maybe we can assist with publicity in our own units

   e. Team charge and goals on wiki

2. Primary Source Literacy

   a. Proposed Spring program (Julia, filling in for Lance)

• Discussed various angles, including introduction to teaching currently happening in this area
• Christina will seek clarity for direction and goals in the area, both broadly and for a potential program

   b. Possibility of integrating PSL into CUL-wide reference training effort

3. Subteam Updates

   a. LibGuides

• Continuing accessibility workshops for LibGuides as clinics
• Requesting system of tagging libguides to indicate that accessibility has been reviewed
• Recommending taking down all that aren't compliant
• Canvas integration - trying to get a few courses as samples to run a pilot
  

   b. Assessment

• Use of CLIQ has gone down
• Mel and Alison planning to meet with Danianne