RISG Minutes 09/17/2008

Attending: Cohn, Green, Locknar, McCann, Perkins, Sweeney, Szarko, Horowitz, Helman (minutes)

Announcements and Updates:

• Lisa Sweeney, Moses Carr and Roshni Gohil were named as this year's IAP coordinators
• PSLG & UIG: Peter reported on discussion of a UIG idea to focus on usability testing, and how new technology is adopted. Lisa H. reported on other ideas for changes to UIG. We decided not to stray too far from the agenda, and will email ideas to Remlee.
• ISG: 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 on the possibility of using the GIS form for ref stats, but that there is no time line for when it may happen.

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 goals 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" Lib Guide or 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 goal.

Revisit Ref Vision:
We discussed various elements of the Reference Vision document, as well as the text of the vision as stated. Lisa H. suggested 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 document.

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.