*RISG agenda, Wed., 1/20/09, 10-11:45am; Rotch Conference Room*
*Minutes:* Sweeney (next: Szarko)
* Announcements:
** Update on Services for Persons with Disabilities
* Class registration project (Remlee & special guest Roshni, 30 mins)
* LibAnswers update (Lisa, 30? mins)
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[Idea spot|Idea spot]: add ideas, questions, comments, suggestions, worries, etc.
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*Meeting topics for the future:*
* Soon:
** Invite Howard:
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*** Discuss role documents
* Postpone/nix:
** Stats for online instruction: Does anyone use them in reports, etc.? (Angie, ? mins)
** How to support personal information management; Expand cite-help group to include personal information management?
** Late Spring / Summer: consider creating an instruction vision for undergrads.
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*Outstanding goals for FY2010:* (also see [FY10 completed goals|https://wikis.mit.edu/confluence/display/LIBRISG/FY2010+goals])
|| Done? || Timeline || recurring || Project || Who's working on it? ||
| Beginning is done; project ongoing \\ | Summer - Fall 2009 \\ | | Review & maintain video tutorials. Videos are in Tech TV now. \\
Video tutorials assessment - 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, Darcy, Courtney (doing an assessment of BITS with Harvard already) \\ |
| in progress \\ | Fall 2009 \\ | yes \\ | Review instruction plan and implementation. \\ | Peter leads \\ |
| in progress (low priority) \\ | Fall 2009 \\ | \\ | Figure out ways to assess graduate student learning. | {color:#000000}Barbara, Mark, Peter, Lisa H, & Maggie{color} |
| Done\! \\ | Fall 2009 \\ | \\ | Redo Writing pages as a LibGuide (Later LibGuide ideas for Patty: maybe Barton Basics, materials properties pages) | Patty D-B with Lisa & Mark \\ |
| in progress (high priority) \\ | Fall 2009 | yes \\ | {color:#000000}Think about{color} adding up to 2 special reference-related statistical studies for FY10 \\
Maybe 2nd FY10 special statistics project: Assess staffing models for reference/service including ask-us (falls under RISG as part of reference); ask-us general phone line sits in Hayden \\ | {color:#000000}Heather leads, with Lisa H, Remlee, Barbara; coordinate with ISG{color} |
| in progress \\ | Fall 2009 \\ | | Continue undergrad instruction assessment pilot \\ | Angie, Lisa H, Mark \\ |
| in progress, ongoing \\ | Fall 2009 \\ | yes \\ | Think about LibGuides and what we could do better. Reps from local units should make sure the index page points to the best guide (old html or LibGuide) Idea: encourage people to look at LG stats before and after instruction; think about for LibGuides user group meeting; when things are cancelled, they should disappear from db lists. can we make libguides.mit.edu any better? (search box, etc.) - PRIORITY: When things are cancelled, what happens? \\ | Remlee leads with Angie, Lisa, Mark \\ |
| DONE\! \\ | Fall 2009 - by 12/09 \\ | yes \\ | Organize and add documentation to [http://libstaff.mit.edu/psdocs]. Add content from reference manual, link local reference manuals. | Anita, Bill, Lisa, & Erja \\ |
| postpone \\ | Fall 2009 \\ | | Sponsor new core competencies training; maybe collaborate with other PS groups. \\ | Remlee will talk to PS chairs \\ |
| in progress (low priority) \\ | Fall 2009 \\ | \\ | Work to promote user awareness of research guides, maybe with CFG, as described in assessment project plan for 2007-2010. \\
Ideas: Ask users what they think they should be called in UIG card-sorting exercise or focus group; link to them on mini site; make book marks; promote under news & events section; add to screen savers? \\ | Mark & Heather \\ |
| in progress: waiting for DIRC committee \\ | Fall 2009 | | Instruction tools for DIRC: Look at tools (ex: [http://www.netsupportproducts.com/products/HigherEdSolutions.htmlSMART] Sync) and think about if/how we could use them in the DIRC. Find out how much it costs, how much would it get used, how easy it is to setup, and the likelihood of it causing any software conflicts on the machine. \\
\\ | Mark & Barbara \\ |
| in progress (ongoing) \\ | Fall 2009 \\ | | Coordinate efforts for developing teaching skills for library staff (ex., plan Spring Seminar or brown bag, and market Teaching & Learning Lab IAP events to all staff) \\ | Barbara & Heather \\ |
| postpone \\ | January 2010 \\ | yes \\ | Update [list that lays out ownership of certain projects|https://wikis.mit.edu/confluence/display/LIBRISG/Ownership+of+ongoing+RISG+projects+and+web+pages] (virtual reference pages, instruction pages, wiki, etc) | Remlee & all \\ |
| | February 2010 \\ | yes \\ | Figure out who will plan JulyAP (Anita volunteered for IAPril.) \\ | Remlee & all \\ |
| | March 2010 \\ | yes \\ | [Plan IAPril 2010|https://wikis.mit.edu/confluence/x/mDiNAg] \\ | Anita \\ |
| | by Spring 2010 | yes | {color:#000000}Plan Spring Seminar 2010. Brainstorm{color} {color:#000000}research and instruction-related{color} {color:#000000}topic, find someone to do it, figure out if it will cost money. For staff development.{color} | Barbara \\ |
| in progress \\ | by Spring 2010 \\ | | Investigate Knowledge Base ideas (Hermes, LibAnswers, etc.) \\ | Lisa leads, with Heather, Bill, & Darcy \\ |
| | June 2010 \\ | yes \\ | [Plan JulyAP 2010|https://wikis.mit.edu/confluence/x/mDiNAg] \\ | |
| | June 2010 \\ | yes \\ | Submit Instruction & Reference statistics (need to be done by middle of spring to be ready for next fiscal year) \\ | Maggie/Angie for instruction, Jess B for reference |
| | June 2010 \\ | yes | Call for new members (every year/through PSLG) | Remlee |
*Brainstormed ideas to consider to add to the timeline:*
* Think about how we could facilitate sharing what is learned at conferences and other events with colleagues. Is this feasible or even desirable to do?
* Redo Ask Us page: different focus? simpler way to say it? get rid of library lingo ("research consultation"), etc. ([notes from meeting where we discussed this|https://wikis.mit.edu/confluence/x/dgiTAQ])
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*To incorporate in FY2010 timeline:*
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* [Ownership of ongoing RISG projects and web pages] (review again 1/10)
* [Recurring projects|Recurring projects] (already in FY 2010 timeline)
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*Past goals:*
* [FY2010 goals|FY2010 goals] (completed)
* [FY2009 goals]
* [FY2008 goals] |