Goals and Future Agenda Items

DONE!

September 2008

yes

Select IAP coordinator team

Lisa S, Roshni, Moses

October 2008

yes

Establish list that lays out ownership of certain projects (virtual reference pages, instruction pages, wiki, etc)

everyone

in progress

By end of Oct. 2008

yes

Review & maintain video tutorials

Angie organizes, with help reviewing & updating

in progress

Continue discussion in a Fall 2008 meeting

yes

Think more broadly about reference (and instruction) in general & where are we in the Reference Vision plan? Already talked about what was and what have now; next steps write new vision for future; instruction assessment group talked about doing something similar with instruction; should RISG keep as separate streams or collapse together; "reference" vision actually "public service" vision.

Lisa H. spearhead

in progress

By end of Fall 2008

yes

Plan Spring Seminar.  Brainstorm research and instruction-related topic, find someone to do it, figure out if it will cost money. For staff development.

Heather & Lisa H. (will bring in ideas from instruction assessment)

in progress

Fall 2008-June 2008

Consider sampling system for stats. Check with Steve/Nina/Sands about using same coding from instruction statistics form for reference (at and away from desk statistics).  Lisa will talk to Steve about using GIS stat webform as example.

Lisa H. leads, with Heather, Remlee, Bill

in progress

By beginning of Fall 2008; will talk about Fall 08 results in Jan/Feb but continue pilot for 1 year

Pilot assessment of student learning. We need to have something in place by the beginning of the next academic year. (will be informed by IAP instruction assessment survey data)

Angie, Mark, & Lisa H 

Start Sept. 2008; revision will be complete Jan. 2009; instruction plan timeline determines dates

Instruction Toolkit - think about when and who? The project plan (implementation of instruction plan) will address this, so we'll need to think about what is realistic. Nicole created a wikispace but it's not populated yet; linked from RISG wiki under projects and documents.  Can start with existing instruction toolkit on wiki. http://libstaff.mit.edu/instruction/toolkit/bibliography.html

Mark will make draft and send out to group

Start Oct. 2008

yes

Review & maintain Barton Basics, information navigator, tutorials, etc. 

Think more broadly about Barton Basics changes and enhancements in light of the new world of searching (Vera Multi-Search, WorldCat Local). videos; info navigator; barton basics; videos are not accessible to everyone - so can't get rid of barton basics and info navigator; duplication and out of date data - project to update and collapse and coordinate with videos; patty durisin could be interested in working on (already very familiar with all 3); info navigator and barton basics linked off main library page; anita - suggest to keep info navigator as separate discrete tool from barton basics but there is a lot of updating required; should it be converted to libguides? - a lot of images (which tend to go out of date) - once link it to videos can images be eliminated?

Remlee, Peter, Angie, Anita, Lisa H; Keep Nicole & Darcy in the loop

Have a plan by end of Fall 2008

LibGuides vs subject guides assessment: assess research guides; some subject guides were just a listing of things from Vera, but many were much more extensive; make clear that subject guide doesn't have to look like database listing; make sure subject guide person knows they can control link from main library page to real subject guide and then link to LibGuide from subject guide

Lisa H. leads

End of Fall 2008

yes

Review instruction plan and implementation

Peter

Spring 2009

yes

Review & maintain reference manual: Link local reference manuals; dovetail with documentation infrastructure project?  start wiki with ideas for manual

Spring 2009

Review instruction assessment tools - are the stats being gathered still relevant for what we want?

2009, after we have more survey results

Work to promote user awareness of research guides, maybe with CFG, as described in assessment project plan for 2007-2010.  Use user awareness survey info.

June 2009

yes

Reference statistics (need to be done by middle of spring to be ready for next fiscal year)

June 2009

yes

Call for new members (every year/through PSLG)

Beginning is  done; project ongoing

Summer 2009?

Video tutorials assessment - we'll have the analysis back from Patty at some point in the spring.  Have pilot assessments, but then what? Report written by Patty and Darcy; RISG is supposed to continue to evaluate?; writing in annual reports - no one included; Should there be a rotating "video coordinator" position in RISG? Angie already does for many things; Darcy oversees technical side - Angie and Darcy have been coordinating; only data collected is from Google Analytics.  Sitting in awareness, satisfaction, importance space. Should it be up to instruction coordinators to report out on? Where is steve getting numbers from? Ask Nicole if she wants to add to usability tests?

Angie, Georgiana, Courtney (doing an assessment of BITS with Harvard already)