May 2013

Agenda

11am, Law Library conference room

Attendance: Thomas, Kaila (note taker), Tony, Amy, Nina, Carissa, Marsha, Mary, Gaby, Chris

Incoming chair:

• Nina Scholtz is our new chair for 2013-2014 academic year! 

Teaching Forum

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1. Survey question

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• Mary will contact Shirley about set-up for Mann 160.
• Kaila will email IC Librarians about their attendance.
• Unit coordinators/reps: please encourage colleagues to attend and get a sense of participation.

CTE Faculty Course Design Institute – presentation and lunch with faculty on May 22^nd

• Mary, Thomas, or Kaila will give a short presentation followed by lunch with faculty. Library instructors will be invited to attend the lunch based on the participating faculty.
• Survey: We can add 1 or 2 questions to the pre-institute survey. Kaila will send out the survey and get ideas for the questions. Deadline: end of May 3.
• We will want to follow-up with librarians who attend the lunch to see if they worked with faculty after the Institute.
  Library credit courses web page – looking for volunteer/s to take this on
• Nina agreed to spearhead this effort.
• Thomas has compiled all of the courses. He will confirm with Susette when this information is needed by Undergraduate Research office.
• If it's a tight deadline, we will create a public Confluence page as a stop-gap.
• Long-term we want to develop a web page that is dynamically generated with the courses.
• This also brings up the larger issue of redesigning our web page/s. This should be a priority for the next year - the new Instruction Team should form a task force.

Other

• Gaby announced that Erin Eldimier will be an intern for RAU. Part of her internship will be working on the curriculum mapping project. She will also sit in on the Teaching Forum.
• Fall information literacy training for CUL. Chris brought the idea to BLAST. There is interest so far in doing this for Business resources.
• Amy reported that the PSEC May 15 meeting will decide on new membership for committees. We are looking for 1 at large member. Thomas and Kaila will attend.
• Mary suggested that we review the Information Literacy Task Force report at the first meeting of the new PSEC Team in July. She will send this out to everyone.
• We will also need to vote on the chair-elect at the 2nd meeting of the new PSEC Team (probably August).
• Kaila gave an update on the Mann Life Sciences/Instruction Coordinator search: phone interviews are done; inviting final candidates for on-campus in May.
• We discussed the last Reading Discussion on humor. Possible future forum/workshop on learning techniques to help with teaching anxiety?

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April 2013

Agenda 

Attendance: Carrisa Vogel, Nina Schultz, Jim Del Rosso (guest), Hilary Wong (guest), Patrick Stevens, Mary Ochs, Chris Miller, Marsha Taichman, Kaila Bussert, Thomas Mills, TonyCosgrave (note taker)

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5. Other: April article discussion on humor in the classroom with Chris Miller.  Office of Undergraduate Research is interested in us preparing a list of library instruction credit courses to be made available on the web for interested students to see. Step one is compiling a list of all the credit courses currently being offered.  Mary is going to compile a list from information she has gathered in the past.  Chris is going to send Mary information on a new course that was just approved.  Mary will share her list for review with an eye toward identifying additions for the list. 

March 2013

Attending: Nina, Patrick, Tony, Gaby, Thomas, Kaila, Marsha, Carissa, Chris

March 6 in Olin 703, 11 am - 12 pm

Agenda

1. Announcements

• AEM class: Tom Ottaviano is looking for volunteers to assist students with their assignment. It's an opportunity to learn about business resources and work with students across the disciplines who are minoring in Business.
• Mann Instruction Coordinator - Life Sciences Librarian position posted. 
• Legal Research Series offered by Law Library (March 25, April 1, April 8). Business could be a good topic to do in the Fall. Chris will ask HLM group.
• Chris Miller will represent PSEC Instruction at CD Week committee lightning round.

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• CTE expressed interest for CUL to offer another session on information literacy at their faculty institute in May 22 & 23
• Chris discussed his conversations with CTE about them providing workshops for CUL instructors. 
• This brought up a discussion of the LIPP program. Good materials were developed to help librarians partner and observe each other teach.

February 2013

Attending: Nina, Patrick, Tony, Gaby, Thomas, Kaila and Marsha

February 6 in Olin 106G from 11-12

Agenda

1.  Article discussions - dates for spring semester, etc.

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•  Based on feedback from December's charette
• Another session would get a new group of people
• Could we have a speaker? Not necessarily a forerunner in the field, could be someone from NY state (mid-level) who could bring value
• Nicole at NYU (Kaila's former colleague), interested in promoting reflection in the classroom, could be interesting to have her here for the charette, as she was involved, we could learn what people are doing at NYU
• Larger theme?
• Opportunity to discuss PSEC Instruction including IL
• Depending on other readings, we could invite authors for continuity
• Gaby can share notes typed up from charette
• Could have someone from CTE during the day (could be almost a full day)
• R&O Unconference is May 21, could do the summit in the fall semester (May 4 is the last day of classes), could do a morning (or morning, with something optional in the beginning of the afternoon), could have Barbara Freedman and/or someone from CTE
• Best week would be before Unconference
• We have the funding this year
• Half-day with Nicole/charette and optional afternoon session (1 or 1.5 hour(s)) which is open to everyone and about the discussion of future direction of PSEC Instruction
• If not Nicole, someone from CTE with the idea of feeding out of a past article discussion

December 2012

Agenda

 Attending: Kaila Bussert (co-chair), Gaby Castro Gessner (RAU liaison and notetaker), Tony Cosgrave, Amy Emerson, Chris Miller, Thomas Mills (co-chair), Mary Ochs, Nina Scholtz, Patrick Stevens, Marsha Taichman.

Location: Law Library, December 5, 11:00 am

Announcements & Updates

• CTE Faculty Luncheon -  Thomas and Jaron joined the CTE faculty luncheon and shared IL info on campus.  Librarians who attended the discussion post-luncheon and where matched with faculty based on subject were:  kaila, camille, virginia, chris, jill wilson, lynn thitchener.    For next time, the suggestion is to include all librarians in the luncheon to emphasize a partnership and provide greater opportunities for discussion and networking.   Additional lead time for these events would be welcome.  We might be able to get feedback on the usefulness of this event from CTE (via Thomas and Jaron).
• Follow-up to this event is another luncheon in May.  
• Marsha brought up the question about college/university-wide learning outcomes - if there is a central place for them.   Aside from the university-wide website on assessment and learning outcomes (group chaired by Kathy Edmonson), there is no central place to find LO by college.  

Final planning for End of Semester Instruction Forum on Dec. 14

• facilitators -  Mary (time keeper), Gaby (process), Thomas (group recap and discussion); Kaila (intro)
• how to form groups -- count attendees by 7s to form 6 or 7 groups  (RSVPs 12; total attendees 15, I think).
• dry-run meeting on Dec. 11, 11am in Mann 160 - Thomas, Mary, Kaila, Gaby, Nina. (flip charts, markers, pens, clickers for mini-assessment)
• refreshments -  provided by Mary (Shirley helped set up)

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• continuity in chairships - perhaps a steering committee of 3 (chair elect, chair and past chair) to meet more frequently and without the whole group
• representation from all unit libraries, plus RMC (6- 7 people)
• 2 year terms, some could be one year appointments to allow rotation off or people to be part of steering committee
• Mary is the CUL lead for Instruction - and this role continues unless we hear differently from Janet
• Recommendation for restructuring of PSEC Instruction has to be run by LD executive team and PSEC executive before integrating into final report.
• Mary will incorporate notes from today's feedback to the recommendation
• Tony will look for the Instruction committee's charge and send it to Kaila/Thomas and the rest of the group.

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*Goals for Spring semester* \[<span style="color: #0000ff">move this for discussion in January 2013]&nbsp;&nbsp;</span>semester [move this for discussion in January 2013]  

•  speaker/s
• summit

November 2012

Agenda

• Announcements & Updates 
  • PSEC
  • Speakers
  • Information Literacy Task Force
  • Cornell MOOCs
• End of Semester Instruction Forum 
  • Charette Protocol idea. See worksheet and powerpoint.
  • Co-host with R&O on Dec. 11 (allotted 65 min.) or host alone at another date for 90 min. ?
• Reading for next Instruction Discussion, Nov. 20. See Nina's email for choices.
• Planning for Spring semester and Summit
• IMLS grant on library services and their impact on student success. 
  Lisa Hinchliffe, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; Megan Oakleaf, Syracuse University; and Kara Malenfant, Association of College and Research Libraries have received an IMLS grant to conduct a study of the impact of library services on student learning and student success. They will be looking for 75 institutions and will have a call for applications in January.

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For more information about these positions, see the full call for the peer-to-peer instructional design expert advisor and the curriculum designers/facilitators. If you have questions about these positions, the Assessment in Action project, or ACRL's ACRL’s Value of Academic Libraries initiative, please contact Kara Malenfant, ACRL Senior Strategist for Special Initiatives, at kmalenfant@ala.org or (312) 280-2510.

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October 2012

Agenda

• Discussion with Information Literacy Task Force members (20 minutes)
• CUL MediaSpace categories for instructional videos 
• Articles/Topics for Fall Instruction Discussions
• Announcements & Updates
  • Budget status and speakers
  • Information Literacy month 
  • MOOCs

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Thomas and Kaila identified two potential speakers for the fall, including Megan Oakleaf of Syracuse University and Randy Hensley of CUNY.  Unfortunately, correspondence with Megan Oakleaf has revealed that her costs ($3,500 + travel) are beyond PSEC's PSEC’s budget, so she is no longer a viable option.  Thomas and Kaila will next touch base with Randy Hensley.

Thomas and Kaila encouraged members to pursue other ideas for speakers.  They are looking for someone who can provide a wide forum/discussion/presentation/answer questions/follow up on Immersion/keep-the-ball-rolling-kind-of-program with a focus on presentation styles, assessment, etc.  Perhaps someone from Cornell's Cornell’s Center for Teaching Excellence might be a possibility.  Also, Deb Gilchrist may be able to suggest someone else who could speak about assessment. 

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Last year, Anne Kenney sent a "Take One" “Take One” to CUL in honor of Information Literacy Awareness Month.  The group considered whether to ask Anne to do so again, and if so, what the angle would be.  Tony suggested approaching it from the state perspective as well as the federal.   He will look into whether New York State has declared a Proclamation regarding Information Literacy.  (Update:  Tony confirmed that October is Information Literacy month in New York.)

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The Web Advisory Committee is being absorbed into the Discovery and Access Team.  Gaby raised concerns about the temporary nature of the Discovery and Access Team.  (Update:  Amy shared this concern with PSEC and it was decided that this absorption would still occur, because ultimately there will be an ongoing need for a team of Discovery and Access' Access’ nature, and so it will either become permanent or it will be replaced with something very similar.) 

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Jaron reported on the Learning @ CUL document:   The Task Force is trying to wrap up their work this semester because the task force is coming to a close.  There will be a formal report.  It needs to be determined with Janet McCue what will happen after the task force ends - how the work will continue and how coordination will play out.  It is likely that it will encompass something like what we're we’re doing now – discussions, brown bags, etc.  Other ideas also included better sharing of materials, forums where each unit can present what it is they do for instruction and what instruction means to them, better collaboration with faculty to get faculty on board and get librarians invited into classes.  All agreed that getting higher administration involved is crucial to achieving these goals. 

Regarding revising the Learning @ CUL document:  The Task Force is talking to every instruction coordinator at every unit library to see what unit programs look like and to get feedback.  This will assist in creating criteria for a pilot program.  The pilot is designed to represent a more formalized information literacy program.  It's It’s very complex and will look different for every library.  Therefore, the Task Force is trying to determine a set of criteria to get a framework for the pilot, rather than actually define it at this time.

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Kaila reported on MediaSpace:  Media Space is a new platform that brings together all of the library's library’s media (library created videos only).  It includes audio files but is targeted to multi-media.  It also includes instruction content and collection content.   MediaSpace is meant for the public but will also be highly used as an internal tool.  Tags may be added and metadata associated with them.  It has not yet been determined where it will link from the library website.  The videos may be embedded in the website & LibGuides, etc.  Uploading of content will be locked to library staff. 

Discussion ensued surrounding the subcategories to be included in the Tutorials Tab.  Possibilities:  orientation, tutorials, starting research, find, evaluate, use, cite, and how-to'sto’s.   The group generally agreed that tutorials was the best term and was in keeping with the other tabs.  How-to'sto’s, citing, etc. may be subcategories.

Kaila will make a mock-up of a list of categories based on the group's group’s suggestions and present it to the group for input.

September 2012

Agenda

• Welcome and introductions
• Goals for the year
• Committee roles and responsibilities
  • Instruction Discussions Coordinator
  • Wiki administrator
• CUL MediaSpace categories for instructional videos 
• Learning@CUL feedback

Minutes

Monday, 9/10, at 11 am in Olin 703
Attendance:  

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Mary and Jaron are co-chairing the IL Task Force. Jaron, Mary, Thomas, and Kaila are leading the committees as a Steering Group. Amy is the committee's committee’s liaison with PSEC.  

• Instruction Discussions Coordinator: 

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No one volunteered for this position.  We agreed that the minute taker will post the committee's committee’s minutes on the wiki. 

• CUL MediaSpace categories for instructional videos:  

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