Attendees:   Anne Kenney, Pat Court, Pat Schafer, Carmen Blankinship, Angela Horne, Zsuzsa Koltay, and Eli Brown

Guest Speakers: Kornelia Tancheva, Nan Hyland, Linda Miller, Nancy Skipper, Tony Cosgrave, and Ed Weissman

Discussion:  User and Systems Assessment Review Group Proposal  (Kornelia, Nan, Linda, and Nancy)

·        Summary of recommendations from proposal:

                o       Create a standing working group that is both cross-unit and cross-department

                o       Create the knowledge base (to include databases, resources, policies, etc.)

                o       Promote the sharing/reuse and preservation of data sets

·        Scope seems broad, but User and Systems Assessment is a subset focused on user needs underneath the large assessment umbrella

·        USAR members envision the working group as a contact point between those conducting a study and the existing resources

·        Pat Court made the most agreeable suggestion: consider this as a phase 1 implementation that can develop/define best practices, and hope it inspires a larger, broader effort

Action Items

ü      Anne will bring the proposal to LMT as a first step towards a broader based concept

Discussion:  The Library in Orientation and Instruction  (Ed, Kornelia, and Tony)

·        Sarah Thomas received feedback from students during the Student Library Advisory Council meeting

·        The Library could be more involved during orientation and in classroom instruction

·        Sarah asked Ed to do some information gathering to see where the Library stands now and how we could go further with a more systemic approach to outreach

·        Some things the Library is already doing:

                o       Library Technology Expo at Uris Library every year (this is not well attended, but is well advertised)

                o       Olin, Uris, and Mann publishes its offerings in the New Student Orientation Guide

                o       Barton Fair (might not happen Fall04) has always seen a large turnout

                o       Postcard sent to faculty by Instruction Working Group (funded by grant)

·        Some things the Library could do in the near future:

                o       Get involved with the new Student Center- perhaps become part of their program

                o       CUL-wide Open House (door prizes/scavenger hunt?)

                o       Possibly become a part of the Arts and Sciences Open House

                o       Review the Library’s piece in the CIT required tutorial to get your NetID

                o       Take another look at participating in the North Campus orientation

                o       Strengthen outreach to faculty, the Graduate Student Office, and the International Student Office

                o       Could turn the Instruction Working Group’s postcard into posters to send to various departments

                o       Investigate incorporating the Library into the required first year writing seminar

                o       Look at other 101 level courses to see if the Library might be incorporated somehow

·        The Instruction Working Group will be presenting their final report at Academic Assembly in March

·        Information Literacy would not be useful as a for-credit, stand-alone offering- it makes more sense as applied to a discipline

·        How does the Library garner support to increase its involvement in Instruction?

              o       Present to the Faculty Senate and get their endorsement

              o       Emphasize its relation to the President’s Call to Engagement

              o       Middlestates guidelines for accreditation include guidelines and core principles for the Library’s involvement in Instruction

Action Items

ü      Kornelia will send the url for the Final Instruction Working Group Report

The next PSEC Meeting is scheduled for: January 28, 2003:  1:30 – 3:00 pm, 702 Olin