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Instruction Committee Meeting
January 18, 2008 3:00 PM  
Olin 106

Agenda:
Announcements and updates
Review of Committee activities
Upcoming Committee activities
Discuss Library Instruction Partner Program
Review results from the Library Instruction Needs Assessment Survey


Minutes:

Attending:

Lance Heidig, Chris Miller, Xian Wu, Pat Court, Eli Brown, Angela Horne, Thomas Mills, Camille Andrews, Eric Acree, Ken Bolton and Tony Cosgrave

Announcements and updates:

  • Tony announced the completion of the Olin 106 G classroom renovations, the technology available and the many classes CRIO holds in it.
  • Lance and Tony talked about the two sections of Writing 142 they are each co-teaching. Writing 142, Writing and Research in the University, is a 3-credit FWS.
  • Eric and Tony reported on the ASRC/ LSP 101 1-credit course they are co-teaching this semester.
  • Thomas & Camille provided an update on the Cornell Undergraduate Information Competency Initiative.
  • Ken announced that he is the new instruction coordinator for Hotel. The current focus is to boost the program and develop tutorials and guides.
  • Lance reported on his experience as an embedded librarian in Writing 700 over the summer. This course is offered to all new FWS instructors. Lance’s participation lead to a number of library teaching opportunities.
  • Eric shared a book that he uses for planning his teaching titled, The Research Process.
  • Camille reported on activities at Mann including the new classroom, new workshops, and Baseema’s work on a subject portal and blog for AEM.
  • Chris reported on the Academic Integrity workshop at ILR.
  • Pat updated the group on activities at Law including a 1-credit Administrative Law course.
  • Angela commented on the development and use of LibGuides for instruction.
  • Xian talked about instruction developments and plans for instruction in Asia.
  • Eli updated the group on the status of the iClicker proposal which had recently been approved.
  • Thomas elaborated on instruction at Law and the classes that he was personally involved with.

Review of Committee activities:
  • Tony gave a quick rundown of the Committee’s activities since the last meeting with the Instruction Coordinators:
  • The Committee said farewell to Deb Lamb-Deans and Suzanne Whitaker and welcomed Thomas Mills to the Committee
  • Hosted the ACRL Best Practices for Info Literacy Webinar series
  • Organized two Brown Bag sessions on Library Guides at Mann, ILR, Hotel, and Olin/Uris
  • Reviewed events and helped provide coverage for fall orientation events with R& O
  • Updated an instruction postcard for distribution at orientation events
  • Hosted the ACRL Webinar series on Thinking Like a Designer
  • Submitted a proposal to PSEC for the purchase of a central set of iClickers to be shared among the Library units
  • Actively developing a Library Instruction Partner Program (see details below)
  • Conducted a Library Instruction Needs Assessment survey (see details below)

Upcoming Committee activities:

iClickers
Since the iClickers proposal was approved, we’ve ordered a set of 50 iClickers to be housed centrally to be used by unit libraries and committees. The committee is planning to offer iClicker training this semester.

Retreat on One Shot Workshops
Lance and Eric have been working on the logistics of a spring retreat conducted by Jerilyn Veldof, author of Creating the one-shot library workshop : a step-by-step guide. The retreat is scheduled to be held on March 6 an announcement will be sent out soon to CU-Lib.

Library Instruction Partner Program (LIPP). (Tony, et al.)
We heard a number of times from unit libraries that they have new staff that need instruction training. We’ve offered different events, forums, brown bags and the like but it occurred to us that the smaller units don’t have the staff to provide coaching for their newer instruction librarians like the larger units do. We came up with the idea for LIPP. After several discussions, we realized that none of us had done very much instructional coaching so we decided to contact David Way from the Center for Learning and Teaching. David, Committee members and a select group of other instruction librarians have completed a 4 part train-the-trainer series which we video taped. We are planning to create an online application form and announce this new service sometime in February. We have evaluation forms from CLT and other material to facilitate the process.

Review results from the Library Instruction Needs Assessment Survey.
Thomas and Camille shared the results of the survey. There were 42 responses to the survey. The Committee will use the results to help us prioritize our programs. Some of the leading topics were, Active Learning and Outcome Based Teaching, Student Learning Styles, How to Motivate Students and Stimulate Learning and Information and Training with New Classroom Technologies.



 

 

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