The Committee had several guests for this meeting. Guests included: Nancy Skipper, Don Schnedeker and Kavitha Reddy.

Announcements and updates:

Tony updated the Committee members on the recent two-part Webinar on “Thinking Like a Designer” that the Committee hosted.

Visit from Linda Miller regarding collection of instruction statistics:

Linda informed the committee that RAU is working to meet with all of the functional area groups this Fall to ask if they would be willing to take on ownership of the tables in the Library's Annual Statistics Report with measures related to their areas. The groups would review the tables and provide feedback. They would also serve a “sounding board” for issues and ideas. The Committee accepted “ownership” of the table of Instructional Statistics and agreed to work with Linda on issues related to that table.

One issue that Linda brought up with group is the definition of what an instruction session is. The specific question is a session with an individual considered instruction. According to the ACRL definition and instruction session involves a group of people. The majority of Committee members agreed.

Review Committee's revised budget:

The updated budget included funding for the Library e-Services Fair and Committee Lunch meeting.

Continue planning for guest speaker for one-shot instruction session events:

Lance and Eric reported on their communications with Jerilyn Veldof author of Creating the one-shot library workshop: a step-by-step guide. Jerilyn has agreed to come in the spring to do a half-day retreat, a presentation for Academic Assembly and attend a meeting with the Instruction Committee. We discussed logistics related to her visit including cost and potential dates.

Needs assessment of library instructors (including discussion of SLG instruction meetings):

Eli announced that we have received a list of new librarians from Library Human Resources. The Committee agreed to discuss the issue further at our next meeting including who would draft the assessment and how to distribute it.

PSEC meeting report:

Tony reported on the recent PSEC meeting among PSEC and chairs of the PSEC committees. He mentioned what he reported to PSEC about the Instruction Committee’s planned activities. He showed the Committee the PSEC minutes from the meeting on the PSEC website.

iClickers request:

We discussed the status of the iClicker request to PSEC. This item is on the agenda for next PSEC meeting.