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Attending: Cohn, Green, Locknar, McCann, Perkins, Sweeney, Szarko, HorwitzHorowitz, Helman (minutes)
Announcements and Updates:
- Lisa Sweeney, Moses Carr and Roshni Gohill Gohil were named to as this year's
IAP councilcoordinators - PSLG & UIG: Peter reported on discussion of a UIG idea to focus on
usability testing, and how new technology is adopted. Lisa H. reported
that Nicole is proposing to form a new User Experience group. We
discussed alternate ways to achieve the same goalon other ideas for changes to UIG. We decided , however,
not to stray too far from the agenda, and will email ideas to Remlee. - ISG: Angie Anita reported on the addition of the libraries/mini link in
Stellar, and concerns that the group has that the mini page may be
confused with the libraries homepage. It was also suggested that course
pages and the libraries/mini link be added to the left hand navigation
bar on Stellar. Bill reported on the progress the Core Competencies
subgroup has made on revising the CC list. - Ref stats: Lisa H. reported that work is ongoing to use on the possibility of using the GIS form
for ref stats, but that there is no time line for when it may happen.
Agenda Goals Brainstorm:
- Improve live capture in DIRC? Does this apply to us, or is this a DIRC
item? Where are we on Camtasia? Need plan for more assessment once the new
tutorials are up. - Where are we on the Instructional Toolkit? Mark volunteered to make a
draft. - We discussed the Spring Agendagoals for spring.
Lisa H. suggested we start a wiki to keep track of things we want to
add/change to the Ref Manual. - Lib Guides v. Subject Guides: we need to compare them to make sure the
"best" LG Lib Guide or SG Subject Guide is the highlighted link. Lisa H. will prepare a draft
for review by the group. - We made sure that there was a lead for each Fall agenda itemgoal.
Revisit Ref Vision:
We discussed our progress on Service Levels #1-4 (pp. 3-6) or various elements of the Reference Vision document, as well as the text of the vision as stated. Lisa H. also reported that the Libraries is considering changing the Ref Vision to a single Public Services Vision.
- Service lv 1.
Where we fall short: We agreed that more work was need on mobile web presence, but that we should follow IS&T's lead. Also that we need to highlight E-Reference from multiple angles, and across groups, as the shift away from print resources effects all libraries.
- Service lv 2.
Where we fall short: We discussed phone reference, but did not agree that we had fallen short in this category. We decided to keep the text as written.
We discussed a need for an instructional vision, or plan.
We also discussed problems with "First Year Orientation". In particular that there is not enough, and what we have is not well coordinated; specifically for new faculty and researchers.
The Vision Itself:
We looked at the wording of the reference vision, line by line, and agreed on a number of small revisions designed to improve claritysuggested that we consider an instruction vision in the spring, and possibly combine the two visions to create a public services vision. We made several minor revisions to the document. Lisa H. will update the text accordinglydocument.
Next meeting we will look at benchmarks for public service to compare to the revised vision, and make recommendations for an action plan to be delivered to PSLG.