CUL Public Services Instruction Team Charter 2020-2021

Created: 6 September 2019

Latest update: 27 July 2020

Background:

The Public Services Instruction Team is part of a network of teams coordinating cross-library public services efforts.

Responsibilities:

The Public Services Instruction Team provides leadership for library-wide instruction initiatives and supports CUL in its commitment to effective instruction and comprehensive information and related literacies (data literacy, visual literacy, media literacy, primary source literacy), by serving as a clearinghouse for information, facilitating a community of practice, and partnering with other groups on initiatives and projects of shared import.  Specific responsibilities include:

• Creating goals for each year based on evidence of needs.
• Planning and executing formal and informal training and learning opportunities for CUL instructors.
• Supporting assessment of CUL instruction across all libraries.
• Coordinating LibGuides activity and training for all of CUL.
• Coordinating general library orientation workshops for fall and spring incoming students.

Goals for 2020-2021:

1. The LibGuides subteam will continue to help LibGuides creators and unit libraries make their new and existing guides compliant with the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) requirements by the October 2020 deadline through training and the promulgation of guidance.
2. The LibGuides subteam will investigate the issue with linking/mapping guides to Canvas that appears to involve some Freshmen Writing Seminar course naming conventions and will promote this option with guide authors for the Fall semester.
3. Consult with CUL administrators and Assessment & Planning to determine the type of instruction assessment data required for reporting needs and recommended for broader program planning.
4. Obtain feedback from CUL instructors about how they currently assess their classroom teaching and use that information to guide decision making related to the CLIQ and other assessment initiatives.
5. Report CLIQ results from the five years that it was administered.
6. Develop a categorization system for the Convene CUL Workshop calendar.
7. Lead discussion-based programming on topics of relevance to CUL instructors and informed by university and library priorities.
8. Facilitate and promote engagement with the Center for Teaching Innovation’s “Teaching and Learning in a Diverse Classroom” course content within CUL.
9. Generate a checklist and primer for new library instructors at CUL.

Working Practices:

Meeting frequency and pattern:  Monthly, 4^th Wednesday at 10:30 a.m.

Team structure and leadership: Team leads determined through solicitation of interest from within team membership. Three-year leadership structure with Incoming Team Lead, Team Lead, and Outgoing Team Lead.

Annual goal setting: In the spring semester, establish goals for the year that address identified needs.

Budget: Sponsors and leads will bring forward needed allocations for annual costs

Communication: Monthly updates are posted to the public services wiki site and to CUL-PUBLICSERV-L; annual report sent to AUL. Unit representatives report updates back to their units, and relevant announcements and updates are posted on Instructors-l.

Sub-teams:

• Information literacy/Instruction leadership team
• Assessment
• LibGuides
• Programming
• Outreach and communications

Membership and Term of Service:

• Unit Representation The director of each library cluster will have the opportunity to appoint a representative to the Instruction Team. This usually will be the instruction coordinator or a staff member with significant responsibility for instruction in that unit. Terms for unit representatives are not specified, and appointments do not need to go through the annual coordinated committee call process. Unit representatives should consult with their director to find a replacement when they leave the Instruction Team.

• At Large Members Two or three members-at-large are also appointed to the Team. These members serve two-year terms unless serving as members of the leadership team.

Current Membership:

Leadership Team

• Jeremy Cusker, Team Lead and Engineering representative
• Christina Sheley, Director Sponsor
• Ashley Shea, Incoming Team Lead and member-at-large
• Lenora Schneller, Outgoing Team Lead and Specialized Humanities and Social Sciences representative

Cluster Reps/Liaisons

• (Open) Humanities and Social Sciences representative
• Lenora Schneller, Specialized Humanities and Social Sciences representative

• Laurent Ferri, RMC representative
• Jeremy Cusker, Engineering representative
• Christian Miller, ILR representative
• Mel Jensen, Life Sciences representative
• Kelly Johnson, Veterinary Library representative
• Nina Scholtz, Law representative

Member(s)-at-large

• Lynn Thitchener, member-at-large (2018-2020; extended until 2021)
• Ashley Shea, member-at-large (2019-2023; extended term due to leadership role)
• Marcie Farwell, member-at-large (2020-2022)