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October 14, 2015  10 am - 11 am Room: Catherwood 237

Attending: Mickey, Jeremy, Meghan, Jill Wilson, Kelly LaVoice, Chris, Lance, Tony, Marsha, Mary, Gaby, Nina, Garima

  1. Housekeeping - 5m
    1. Note taker/additional agenda items - Meghan notetaker
  2. Sub-team updates - 20m
    1. Website - reminder about need for vignettes - website group could still use these and they can be sent to Mickey - pamphlet being developed based on the website content - web team meeting later today - hope to launch by end of the semester 
    2. Technology/Learning Spaces - will go later in the meeting for Evanced demo - group went through webinar that demonstrated migration and how to use 
    3. LibGuides - Nothing to report - Refworks reminder will be going out with the hope that guide owners will do so, but the admin can make the deletion - Q: can we replace RefWorks with something else automatically? A: Not really.  Can replace an asset (for example, CareerBeam switch), but a problematic approach
    4. Assessment - in pilot phase of assessment project - Qualtrics survey sent to pilot members along with a paper option - subteam met with Kornelia - very interested in the Likert scale questions - the free-text responses will inform this group's work and allow us to see themes - Kornelia also asked for a question about whether or not students had previous instruction - Tony mentioned potential challenges in using 3 times in the pilot.  Amount of time it takes? 4-8 minutes - Gaby warned to leave time to create the survey - Kelly suggested using a tinyurl or bit.ly. - Ok to use paper if devices aren't allowed in the class - If there are interesting circumstances around your class, please send them to Kelee Pacion so that we're aware when looking at the data (ex: non-hands-on session)
    5. Information Literacy/Instruction Leadership - quarterly meeting with CTE - follow-up on the CTE Course Design Institute, talked about a continuing conversation amongst the cohort - talked about their Faculty Course Design Institute in November on a Friday and Saturday, 11/13-14 - ACTION: Chris needs to send out the save-the-date - we'll get a list of registrants the week before and match liaison participation during the lunch hour - If you have an interest in going through it in November as a participant, please let Chris know - Lance gives his endorsement to participating as a fun learning experience and the opportunity to interject library-related information - Q: Better for newer instructors? A: Not necessarily - Also talked about the possibility of a CTE Librarian Teaching Certificate - attending seminars and having a CTE observation of your teaching with pre/post-discussion - a little project attached to it as well - will submit a proposal about what each group (CUL and CTE) will get out of it - possibility of having librarians join the CTE teaching calendar and offering workshops - let leadership know if you have ideas - spring semester would be the earliest inclusion - Crafting a Research Assignment one possible proposal - might be nice to have a faculty member team up with a librarian to offer that type of workshop
    6. Programming - Programming in November with article read - third week of November - December - looking at two things - lightning round approach to end-of-semester event - Liaison doing 45 minutes of R&O December meeting, so don't need to co-sponsor - second December event would be a follow-up on the July CTE institute - informal lunch and de-briefing to see impact - is there interest? - Have lightning round be short and have lunch right after? - have advantages and disadvantages - could lose people at the end - could have separate rooms - Kornelia could talk about her instruction vision along with lightning rounds - Career Development Month could include instruction programming - keeping the month format - moving through different days of the week - Tony: discussion among instruction coordinators - are people still interested? discussion about the role of instruction coordinators? early November - Tony will send out info soon, using the contact list of instruction coordinators to invite
  3. Evanced Upgrade - 15m - Jill
    1. Brief Demo - Evanced has a new platform that we can migrate to  - currently used in the library for events that need prior registration, like the Olin and Uris Workshops - Management uses Campus Groups - Evanced sends out reminders to attendees, theoretically - calendar - can categorize events by colors - interface is cleaner and more modern - can search by location, event type - can embed just the calendar of a particular location based on the URL - very uncustomizable - can't get rid of age groups as limiter - events have unique IDs - will anything break because of the upgrade? - most things move in the upgrade except for the custom things - can request our own demo site - have 45 days to test and give feedback - and then can decide if we should migrate - advantage is really aesthetics? - can we set up a staff calendar? - admin side 
    2. Possible dealbreakers: no way for registrants to cancel themselves, if a user signs up they can choose not to be notified and not provide any information (but there is now a text messaging option)
    3. Alternatives? LibCal - Chris is going to contact Dan Blackaby about that trial
    4. Feedback - ACTION: send feedback to the list - demo.evanced.info - password in upper right - demoguest

 

September 9, 2015 Room: Catherwood 231

 Attending: Lance, Jill W, Kelly, Garima, Marsha, Nina, Mary, Tony, Chris (chair), Mickey, Gaby, Kelee

  1. Housekeeping - 5m
    1. Notetaker - Mary
  2. Sub-team updates - 20m
    1. Website – Team is meeting today.  Working on a form for requesting instruction. Team wants to include examples. It was suggested that new Engineering videos might be an option to include.  Suggestion for short vignettes for potential “customers” to look at.  The team will consider this at their meeting.  The group discussed how to bring traffic to the CUL instruction sites.  Need a promotional effort.  Team will talk with Lib Comm for assistance.  Do we have data on the usage of this page?  Team will try to find data.  The group discussed who gets the form after it is submitted.  Right now requesters have to select a library. 
    2. Technology/Learning Spaces – Next meeting will be webinar on Evanced system migration.  Current system is horrible.  Withdrawing current product in 2017, so must transition by then. Evanced is purchased with PSEC funds authorized by Kornelia.  Upgrade is free, but we do pay an annual fee.
    3. LibGuides - Best practices document & training announcements – Marsha and Kelly are doing a workshop on finding images and using them in LibGuides.  Recent problem with LibGuides – custom annotations were replaced by generic ones without warning.  Kelly is trying to resolve this problem.
    4. Assessment – the Assessment team met once and has set a meeting schedule for the semester.  They are identifying the components for a pilot assessment exercise this fall.  Likely will use a version of the “1-minute paper.” Currently, they have prepared 5 questions. Looking for librarians to participate in the pilot.  Initially, they are looking for librarians teaching undergraduate classes that are tied to an assignment.  Would like 2 from each cluster. Targeting Oct-Nov timeframe.  Team will be meeting with and running the plan by Kornelia.  The group discussed several approaches for the pilot, needs to help clarify the PULSE data.   The group hopes to finalize its plan by early Oct.  Jill noted that EMPS does not have any instruction for undergrads so will likely not participate.  All others will go back to cluster to identify pilot classes/instructors.  Exercise will be done in Qualtrics.  Assessment sub-team will email PSEC instruction full team with an invitation to participate in the pilot.
    5. Programming – Programming will support the other high priority activities of the team this year, e.g. the Dec. event could focus on assessment work for spring.  Other activities will likely include: 1) Follow up with CTE for the Class Design Institute participants; 2) Mentoring program – reinvigorate LIPP?; 3) Certificate program with CTE; 4) Instruction coordinators discussion (Tony will coordinate); 5) Article discussions – 1 per semester; 6) possible lightning talks with liaison committee.
    6. Information Literacy/Instruction Leadership – Chris requested funding for the team for this year.  Each PSEC group will receive $500.  Instruction team received an additional amount for a total of $1270.  May have opportunity to request additional if other groups do not use all of their funding.  The chairs group is meeting with CTE for our quarterly meeting.  Will discuss CDI followup and certificate program.  CTE would again like a librarian to participate in the CDI for faculty. 
  3. Cluster News - 5m  Tabled
  4. Volunteers for Undergraduate Instruction Assessment Pilot - 10m  Incorporated into discussion above.
  5. Instruction Coordinators discussion of the IC role - 5m Incorporated into discussion above.

August 20, 2015, Olin 702

  1. Welcome/introductions/housekeeping (note taker)
    1. Meghan will be notetaker this week
    2. 9:30 second Wednesday of the months - regular meeting time - won't work for Chris potentially - might be sending out a rescheduling message
  2. Debrief of recent events
    1. Course Design Institute
      1. Lance: Met with David from CTE - CTE pleased with the event - CTE wants to talk about expanding into a librarian certificate program - Certificate award for participation in events and feedback/observation - feedback from participants was positive - discussing follow-up with CTE for the fall
        1. ACTION ITEM: PSEC Instruction Chairs will schedule meting with David Way to discuss next steps
        2. ACTION ITEM: Can information literacy become a training focus within the faculty certification program?
    2. Instruction Support Fair
      1. Chris: Jill, Garima, and Chris were on-hand to represent instruction services.  Aimed at new faculty.  Fairly low attendance. More lead time and marketing needed in the future.  Why was it limited to new faculty, especially when faculty survey showed a need for awareness? - Is "Fair" inviting to faculty?  "Breakfast"? 
        1. ACTION ITEM: Meghan will share title feedback with Bonna.
  3. Role/expectations of instruction coordinators
    1. Marsha (absent): Difference in expectations between member-at-large on committee, instruction coordinators in areas
      1. Member-at-large - role is participate fully on PSEC Instruction, but the coordinators are representative and should be representing their areas within the committee
      2. Charge - representation from units, usually the Instruction Coordinator 
      3. Marsha's question - are there different models of instruction coordination when there isn't a formal coordinator?
        1. ACTION ITEM: Website Committee needs to update the Instruction Coordinator list: https://www.library.cornell.edu/instruction-coordinators
        2. Possibility for future discussions that bring together the broader instruction community?
      4. PSEC Instruction absorbs some of the "visioning" and training roles of local coordinators with programming intended for the whole Library
      5. Coordinators locally supporting the flow of communication and encouraging local units to participate in programming
  4. Priorities for the Year
    1. Shared Instructional Philosophy - bringing instructors together to hammer out a shared philosophy (see U of Arizona) - possibly via Programming committee
      1. Mary: Manager Council agenda - strategic planning - how does instruction and information literacy fit in the overall strategic planning effort? 
      2. Gaby: Jeremy/EMPSL doing pilot videos for the Engineering school - "how to do" videos - working with someone at Engineering - targeting large-format courses - covering some disciplinary content, some broad topics like Passkey - "How to do Research in a Cafe" - faculty are committed to it being in the courses - Kathy Dimiduk at Engineering is the CTE of the Engineering School - CUL branding on the videos rather than Engineering
    2. Mentoring - Peer Review - Peer Observations - still need to get this off the ground through the committee in some way if it's important to us
  5. Sub-team staffing/goals
    • Assessment – Kelee Pacion – pilot cross-CUL assessment project in response to PULSE survey

    • Programming – Lance Heidig - article discussions, semester events

    • Technology and Learning Spaces – Jill Wilson – evanced software upgrade

    • Website – Mickey Casad – finishing the implementation of suggested revisions to the CUL Instruction site

       ProgrammingAssessmentTech & LearningWebsite
      ChairLanceKelee PacionJill WilsonMickey
       MarshaMeghanChrisTony
       Kelly LaVoiceGabyJeremyGaby
       Kelee PacionKelly LaVoiceGarimaNina
        Mark Mary Ochs
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