February 12, 2020 Meeting of Library Assessment Committee

1. Updates. Addition to the agenda (15 min.)

• Accreditation Summary (Institutional Accreditation Visit –March 30-31, 2020)
• Meeting with the Student Affairs Assessment Committee

2. Library Assessment Grant program (15 min.)

3. Library Assessment Forum brainstorming (25 min.)

• Potential speakers, topics: Student Affairs or tools for assessment
• Forum activities
• Invite past Library Assessment Grant Program participants to present

4. Member Updates (Round-robin)

• Current projects?
• Do you know any academic programs that are/will be going through accreditation?

1. Addition to the agenda (15 min.)
   • Notice of goal of keeping the main meeting down to under an hour so that the rest of the scheduled hour and a half can be used for working on projects alone or together.

• Accreditation Summary (Institutional Accreditation Visit –March 30-31, 2020)
  • Sharing of the accreditation summary. Will be made public to others in the university in the future.
  • Overview of the process involved with the visit from the Higher Learning Commission.
  • Reminder that open sessions are valuable to go to during the accreditation visits. All open sessions will be at the Illini Union. Encourage students to go to the meetings.
• Meeting with the Student Affairs Assessment Committee
  • Student affairs has a similar assessment structure, but on a much larger scale.
  • Sharing of slides of what library assessment does and what it’s goals and mission are.
  • https://www.library.illinois.edu/staff/assessment/did-you-know-factoids-from-library-assessment/

2. Library Assessment Grant program (15 min.)
   • Decision to have the committee review notice of a hard deadline to the assessment committee grant to be added to the application and call for proposals.

3. Library Assessment Forum brainstorming (25 min.)

• Potential speakers, topics: Student Affairs or tools for assessment
  • Scheduling conflict with Student Affairs due to the upcoming accreditation. Should we change the date of the assessment forum? Or should we change to our second topic of tools for assessment?
  • Should we split the assessment forum into an “assessment series” where we have two days with different topics? A one hour session on tools and a one hour session with student affairs?
  • Decision made to split the forum into two sessions. We will have the tools on the originally planned March 12^th and Student Affairs on a yet to be determined date.
• Forum activities
  • Forum activities will be tabled due to the splitting of the topics into two dates.
• Invite past Library Assessment Grant Program participants to present
  • Are there any grants that people are particularly interested in hearing the results of?
  • Need to add Josh to the official list of LAS grant recipients.
  • Suggestions for Kristen Wilson, George Gottschalk, Stephanie Baker and David Ward.

4. Member Updates (Round-robin)

• Current projects?
  • College of Medicine and College of Veterinary Medicine are going through the accreditation/reaccreditation process.
  • The Chancellor’s Senior Survey is ongoing.
    • Reminder that participation in this survey is low and to encourage any undergraduates in their department to take the survey.
• Do you know any academic programs that are/will be going through accreditation?

, Jen-chien Yu, Kirsten Feist, Peg Burnette, Megean Osuchowski, Geoffrey Ross, Erin Kerby, Rebecca Smith, Joshua Lynch, Yali Feng, Ruthann Miller, Shuyong Jiang, John Laskowski, Taylor Anderson, Jen-chien Yu, Kirsten Feist, Peg Burnette, Megean Osuchowski, Geoffrey Ross, Erin Kerby, Rebecca Smith, Yali Feng, Ruthann Miller, Shuyong Jiang, John Laskowski, Taylor Anderson

1. Addition to the agenda (15 min.)
   • Notice of goal of keeping the main meeting down to under an hour so that the rest of the scheduled hour and a half can be used for working on projects alone or together.

• Accreditation Summary (Institutional Accreditation Visit –March 30-31, 2020)
  • Sharing of the accreditation summary. Will be made public to others in the university in the future.
  • Overview of the process involved with the visit from the Higher Learning Commission.
  • Reminder that open sessions are valuable to go to during the accreditation visits. All open sessions will be at the Illini Union. Encourage students to go to the meetings.
• Meeting with the Student Affairs Assessment Committee
  • Student affairs has a similar assessment structure, but on a much larger scale.
  • Sharing of slides of what library assessment does and what it’s goals and mission are.
  • https://www.library.illinois.edu/staff/assessment/did-you-know-factoids-from-library-assessment/

2. Library Assessment Grant program (15 min.)
   • Decision to have the committee review notice of a hard deadline to the assessment committee grant to be added to the application and call for proposals.

3. Library Assessment Forum brainstorming (25 min.)

• Potential speakers, topics: Student Affairs or tools for assessment
  • Scheduling conflict with Student Affairs due to the upcoming accreditation. Should we change the date of the assessment forum? Or should we change to our second topic of tools for assessment?
  • Should we split the assessment forum into an “assessment series” where we have two days with different topics? A one hour session on tools and a one hour session with student affairs?
  • Decision made to split the forum into two sessions. We will have the tools on the originally planned March 12^th and Student Affairs on a yet to be determined date.
• Forum activities
  • Forum activities will be tabled due to the splitting of the topics into two dates.
• Invite past Library Assessment Grant Program participants to present
  • Are there any grants that people are particularly interested in hearing the results of?
  • Need to add Josh to the official list of LAS grant recipients.
  • Suggestions for Kristen Wilson, George Gottschalk, Stephanie Baker and David Ward.

4. Member Updates (Round-robin)

• Current projects?
  • College of Medicine and College of Veterinary Medicine are going through the accreditation/reaccreditation process.
  • The Chancellor’s Senior Survey is ongoing.
    • Reminder that participation in this survey is low and to encourage any undergraduates in their department to take the survey.
• Do you know any academic programs that are/will be going through accreditation?