April 10, 2000 Meeting of User Education Committee

Agenda not yet available.

Members Present: Lori DuBois, Sarah Reisinger, Lynne Rudasill, Sue Searing – Chair, Dee Shonkwiler, Jane Wiles, Beth Woodard

Additional Attendees: Julie Veazie (User Education GA)

No additions to the agenda.

Minutes of March 13, 2000 approved.

1. ANNOUNCEMENTS

Next week Sue and Karen Schmidt will post the 3rd annual WEB USER SURVEY. There will be a mass mailing to announce it. Included is a question about user’s attitude toward sources of assistance.

Lynne’s survey of student information literacy competencies will start this week.

2. Proposal to distribute minutes

There was a discussion about the best way to distribute minutes of User Ed Committee minutes. They could be e-mailed to division coordinators (but will they pass on the information to the appropriate people?), put in LIBNEWS-L (it will not be archived), or put on LON (which many employees do not read). This appears to be a communication issue. The committee will consider this issue again in a month or so.

3. GEN Documents

The Administrative Council approved appropriate identification of library-generated handouts and requested guidelines for implementation. Sue and Lynne will work together on this project. There are more unresolved issues specifically related to GEN documents. There should be one person who controls the numbers and categorizes them so they are accessible to departments who want to make copies, and ensures that superseded GEN documents are retired. These responsibilities could fall to the new position of Director of Services, or his or her staff. In the interim, Lori can take on these duties.

4. ACTION LIST

Lori revised the Lexus-Nexus Academic Universe handout. The remote access instructions are revised and on the web, and an announcement about them appeared on LIBNEWS-L.

5. AGENDA

Continuing Education

Deb Gilchrist is set to come Thurs. July 13 all day for a workshop and Fri July 14 in the morning for a consultation. We will pay an honorarium, car rental, and hotel and meal expenses. The proposed budget was approved by Paula Kaufman. Sue will look for a room (probably Grainger Commons) for the seminar which will hold up to 45. Beth will get out announcements in LIBNEWS-l as soon as possible. Sue will investigate lodging.

6. Needs Assessment Survey

Results from the Needs Assessment Survey were due Fri, April 11, 2000. Based on 21 responses of 32 surveys sent out:

• Sarah will contact the Office of Instructional Resources to see if they will conduct a workshop on presentation and instructional techniques.
• User Ed Committee will move ahead to arrange some classes for September. GAs who are involved instruction will be invited too.
• Basic overview classes would be helpful such as introduction to web based instruction. The Center for Education Technologies is a good resource. Sue and Lori will contact them.
• Sue will share results of the survey with Bob Burger and with the respondents.

7. Lunchtime Discussions

Regular lunchtime gathering of instructional librarians were common in the past but have not occurred in recent years. The object of reviving them would be to get an overview of user education and attract staff and GAs to the discussions. We will reserve a room in the Illini Union Ballroom for the 4th Thursday from 12-1. Each User Ed Committee member will rotate choosing a topic for discussion. Reminders will be sent out monthly. Julie will reserve the room and send out the reminders. The first lunch will be April 27.

8. UPDATE ON WORKSHOPS

Workshops end April 13, 2000. As of April 10, there were 73 attendees at the Basic Online Catalog Workshops, 34 at the Advanced Online Catalog Workshops, 168 at the Article Databases Workshops, and 58 at the Internet Research Workshops. A total of 333 attendees for the Spring term. Lori will have statistics on the workshops at the May meeting.

Equipment for Rm 291: There is some discussion of changing layouts of rooms for UGL workshops. Three vendors have made presentations of projection equipment. The UGL is waiting for the costs of the equipment from two vendors.

9. IDAL (Illinois Digital Act for Libraries)

No report.

Reviewed action list for May Meeting.

Adjourned.