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I-Share Instruction Team Minutes
03/25/08
Conference Call; 10:00 a.m.
Present: Susan Avery (UIUC), Kent Carrico (Benedictine University) Amy Glass (Illinois Central College), Kathleen Haefliger (Chicago State University), Joe Hardenbrook (Millikin University), Terry Huttenlock (Wheaton College), Chad Kahl (Illinois State University), Randi Sutter (Heartland Community College), Stephanie Graves (IUG Liaison, SIU Carbondale), Lorna Engels (CARLI), and Jessica Gibson (CARLI).
Announcements:
- CARLI Update
- Oracle changes implemented over the weekend did not work correctly. CARLI will attempt those changes again this coming weekend; OPAC will be in read-only mode.
- CARLI staff attended ExLibris webinars about the 7.0 version; 7.0 affects the OPAC more than other upgrades.
- IUG update
- Larissa Moebs, chair of the I-Share Users Group, asked for the Team’s year-end report.
- Cataloging forum on April 9 at Kankakee Community College.
- Resource Sharing forum on April 16 at University of Illinois-Springfield.
- OPAC team working on a test script to assist libraries in testing WebVoyage after changes have been made.
- Liaison forum went well; 45 institutions were represented. Feedback suggests that a reporting forum might be needed. Also some question about whether a liaison forum was needed every year or every other year.
Old Business
Each subgroup summarized their meetings for the Team.
- Tutorial subgroup:
- Molly and Amy are looking at the marketing aspect of tutorials. Molly sent a link to University of Wisconsin, Madison tutorials to the Team as an example of marketing.
- Terry, Kent, and Joe are exploring other ways to create tutorials. Terry sent a list of tutorial tools to the Team.
- Kathleen asked about use statistics on the existing I-Share tutorials; currently these are not available.
- Forum subgroup:
- Subgroup members think they have enough ideas and possible presenters to plan a forum for July. Several potential presenter ideas were included on the notes from the subgroup’s initial meeting on Feb. 28, which were sent to the entire Team.
- Subgroup needs to confirm whether or not the Public Services Working Group will join our Team to present the forum.
- Chad suggested a literature search type presentation for the forum.
- Susan noted that ARL is working on a similar survey of existing technologies, etc.
- Team agreed that both subcommittees need to meet again soon.
Next meeting:
Lorna will email Team about dates for the tutorial subcommittee meeting and an entire team meeting. The forum subcommittee meeting is tentatively scheduled for April 17 from 11:00-12:00.
Meeting adjourned at 10:45 a.m.
Respectfully submitted,
Randi Sutter
Heartland Community College
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