RISG agenda, Wed., 9/16/09: 10-11:45; Rotch Conference Room
- Announcements & updates (15 mins)
- Encourage your departments to participate in assessment activities (Angie, Mark, Lisa)
- Fall project planning / project ideas (Remlee & all, 20 minutes)
- How do we make people aware of research guides? (Who wants to lead this? For how long?)
- Knowledge base ideas (Lisa; 15 mins)
- Sorority outreach (Peter, 15 mins)
Homework: Populate Instruction Toolkit , in preparation for Fall project planning, review survey comments for research help
Minutes: Horowitz (next: Locknar)
Meeting topics for the future:
- Should we keep Database Cheatsheets page?
- Stats for online instruction: Does anyone use them in reports, etc.? (Angie, ? mins)
- JulyAP, IAPril, IAP classes: should we change the formula?
- Innovative, beta ideas that RISG can do
- Are we collaborating with other groups enough? Should we do more with ISG? ASG? CFG?
- "Your personal librarian" idea
- How to support personal information management; Expand cite-help group to include personal information management?
- Spring: Rotate submitting instruction stats in July?
- Late Spring / Summer: consider creating an instruction vision for undergrads.
- Lisa shows us how to use Zoomerang.
Goals for 2010:
Done? |
Timeline |
recurring |
Project |
Who's working on it? |
|---|---|---|---|---|
in progress |
Summer 2009 |
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Report on graduate assessment pilot, and discontinue assessment. Peter's working on report in Summer 2009. |
Peter, Maggie, Lisa H, Mark |
in progress; make live by October 2009 |
Summer 2009 |
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Instruction Toolkit: http://libstaff.mit.edu/instruction/toolkit/bibliography.html |
Mark |
Beginning is done; project ongoing |
Summer 2009 |
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Review & maintain video tutorials. Videos are in Tech TV now. |
Angie, Darcy, Courtney (doing an assessment of BITS with Harvard already) |
DONE!! |
Made live in August 2009 |
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Finish Information Navigator LibGuide |
Patty Barbera with Angie & Remlee |
DONE!! |
August 2009 |
yes |
Get RISG budget approved |
Remlee |
DONE!! |
August 2009 |
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Work with representatives from ISG & ASG to provide training on new home page, Vera MultiSearch, and Touchstone |
Peter & Remlee |
DONE!! |
September 2009 |
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Select IAP 2010 coordinator team |
Courtney Crummett, Rosemary Hanley, & Andrew Swayze; will work with Rachel Grubb as AMPS liaison |
|
October 2009 |
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Update list that lays out ownership of certain projects (virtual reference pages, instruction pages, wiki, etc) |
Remlee & all |
|
Fall 2009 |
yes |
Review instruction plan and implementation. |
Peter leads |
in progress |
Fall 2009 |
|
Figure out ways to assess graduate student learning. |
??Angie, Mark, Lisa H, & Maggie? |
|
Fall 2009 |
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Redo Barton Basics as a LibGuide, after WorldCat decision has been made |
Remlee with Patty D-B |
|
Fall 2009 |
yes |
Think about adding up to 2 special reference-related statistical studies for FY10 |
{??}Heather leads, with Lisa H, Remlee, Bill ???? |
|
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) |
Remlee leads |
in progress |
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, & an ESL rep TBD |
|
Fall 2009 |
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Sponsor new core competencies training; maybe collaborate with other PS groups. |
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Fall 2009 |
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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. Look at survey results. Brand them more? Promote more on new homepage. Maybe include "research guide" on every LibGuide? Ask users what they think they should be called. Part of UIG card-sorting exercise or focus group? |
|
in progress |
Fall 2009 |
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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, OTHER VOLUNTEERS? |
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Fall 2009 |
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Coordinate efforts for developing teaching skills for library staff (ex., plan Spring Seminar or brown bag, and market TLL IAP events to all staff) |
Barbara, Heather, anyone else? |
|
February 2010 |
yes |
Figure out who will plan JulyAP (Anita volunteered for IAPril.) |
Remlee & all |
|
March 2010 |
yes |
Anita |
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Spring 2010 |
yes |
Think about staffing models for reference/service including ask-us (falls under RISG as part of reference); ask-us general phone line sits in Hayden |
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by Spring 2010 |
yes |
Plan Spring Seminar 2010. Brainstorm research and instruction-related topic, find someone to do it, figure out if it will cost money. For staff development. |
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June 2010 |
yes |
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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 |
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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)
To incorporate in FY2010 timeline:
- Ownership of ongoing RISG projects and web pages (review again 10/09)
- Recurring projects (already in FY 2010 timeline)
Past goals: