RISG agenda, Wed., 9/17/08: 10-11:45; Rotch Conference Room
- Announcements (15 mins.)
- Revisit Reference Vision (Lisa); Homework for group: go over the document again.
- Continue the discussion about where we fall short;
- Take a serious look again at the vision itself and how to update it for 2008. Come up with some action items.
- Clean up the wiki & make a plan for the year: How are we? Where do we want to go? - Remlee (45 mins)
- Prep for group: Look at wiki & clean out / update old items on goals and future agenda items pages.
Minutes: Helman (next: Locknar)
October:
Random meeting topics for the future:
- Instruction assessment pilot discussion -- how to play that out for long-term sustainability (Jan/Feb -- Angie, Mark, Lisa)
- Assess whether people are watching videos and find them useful? Improve the live capture in DIRC: ok to have short shelf life; things we can do to improve quality? Low cost? Link to them in more locations? Statistics?
- Lisa shows us how to use Zoomerang.
- discuss organizing a library wide system of sharing information learned at meetings / conferences
- updating the instruction toolkit (http://libstaff.mit.edu/instruction/toolkit/bibliography.html)
- Ask Us Page - currently, the information is presented in terms of how the user wants to get in touch with us. Should we revise this so that emphasis is on subject selector page?
- Spring Seminar Planning -- Consider having a philosophical discussion related to instruction; base on work instruction assessment team began? (Lisa, Mark, Angie)
- Reference Statistics Tool - reconsider stats in terms of sampling, in terms of tool that Sands might create. Lisa needs to follow up with Mackenzie/Steve.
- Establish list that lays out ownership of certain projects (virtual reference pages, instruction pages, wiki, etc)