RISG

December 19, 2007

Rotch conference room, 10am-11:30

Present: A Rostoff, M Szarko, A Perkins, M Bartley, R Green, A Locknar, P Cohn, H McCann, G McReynolds 

Minutes: Angie

Announcements/Updates

• RG - looking into subject pages with Nicole
• Cookiefest today!
• IAP poster budget approved, IAP people working on it
• ISG (reported by AP) - Document delivery coordinating group will be launched.  Subgroup on Service Promotion: to create publicity tools, Meeting with Stellar people about embedding library link to stellar pages.
• PSLG doing a review of their committee, PC is the liaison between PSLG and RISG
• Instruction statistics form almost ready!!

Draft Instruction Assessment Survey --Feedback on the draft survey that will be launched during  IAP

• Discussion about the draft occurred.  Keep in mind that this is a first attempt at assessment, a more robust assessment survey will be created for fall 2008.
• Does this get at the perceived relevance?
• Possible other statements:
  • I intend to use what I learned in this session (over the next semester, while at MIT, some kind of time) - or It is likely that I will use...
  • I would recommend this session to others in my department/research group/classes. 

Update on draft implementation plan for system-wide instruction plan.

•  Need to create a graphical representation of this.  PC will send it out when completed.

Outreach or Reference?  ILB stats

• When ILB unfilled requests are forwarded to subject specialists through AskUs, should this be counted as away from desk reference stats?  Or is this just outreach?   Discussion ensued.
• Yes, this should be counted as an away from desk statistic.  It can be Reference or Other, depending on the question and the response by the subject specialist.   This is still optional for the subject selectors to respond, as determined previously.  Reference coordinators will alert their units. 

Spring Seminar planning --Brainstorming topics/speakers/timing

• Perhaps something related to reference and instruction?
• virtual services?  Reference and instruction
  • technology mediated services
• assessment of tutorials stuff?  Having an open session on what we're learning?
• assessing student learning?  Maybe Nelig speaker Megan Oakleaf?
• Bring in a speaker or just run this internal as a discussion?  Are there any spring meetings in Boston where someone might be in town and willing to speak?
• Speakers from a NEASIST meeting that was in Providence (Heather)?
• Marketing as a topic?  Include ISG and CFG?   Applying creative ideas to market reference and instruction.  
  • Want someone in the Library world?
  • Go for it!
  • Bring this up in ISG and CFG
  • Heather will represent RISG (Yay Heather!)

Wiki training with Remlee

• Remlee showed us some tricks.