I-Share Instruction Team Meeting: December 13, 2011

Members attending: Susan Avery, Kirstin Duffin, Julie Murphy,  Elizabeth Nicholson,  Ken Orenic, Marisa Walstrum, Merna Youngblood

Excused members: Chris Sweet, Ariel Neff

IUG Liaison: Nancy Laverdiere, excused

CARLI staff attending: Lorna Engels

Announcements:

• Minutes from the November 15, 2011 meeting were approved.

CARLI report - Lorna Engels

• CARLI systems tech continues to monitor occasional time-out reports; is potentially an institutional network issue, not a CARLI issue

• No new business to report

IUG report

• No new business to report; committee meets on Friday, 12/16

Old business:

Wiki Instruction-related materials

• Several members expressed concerns about the instruction-related materials wiki, including:
  • how difficult it is to edit/add wiki content – steep learning curve
  • maintaining currency of content
  • Who will be responsible for maintenance?
  • Will outside users think to visit this resource?
• CARLI is eventually switching to Drupal; this may provide a better wiki platform
• Discussion about how other CARLI committees maintain wikis
  • Some are maintained by CARLI staff, others by team members
• General consensus: table discussion until we know more about CARLI’s Drupal implementation timeline

Unconference

• Registration is open.
  • As of 12/13, 18 registered participants
  • Instruction Team members need to register to attend
  • Registration closes on 1/3/12
  • Reminder will be sent at beginning of next week (12/19 – Lorna)
  • Contact colleagues to encourage participation and attendance
• Graduate LIS students from Dominican and UIUC are invited
• Minimum threshold for holding event: 30 participants
• If we do not reach 30 participants, event will be canceled with no firm rescheduling date
  • Low registration may have more to do with time of year than lack of interest
  • In the event of inclement weather, notification will most likely be sent out the Monday evening before the event (Snow day, 1/13/12)
• Unconference Introductions – Chris volunteered to introduce concept, topics and facility
• Unconference co-facilitators
  • Team members serving as moderators
  •   Moderator would provide discussion starting points, shift conversation to participants, introduce new topics as needed
  • Leaders within breakout groups will likely emerge
• Unconference topics
  • Survey responses show that most popular themes are “Library Instruction Assessment” and “Alternatives to Library Instruction”
  • How to balance preparedness with fluidity of unconference design?
  • How to meld existing topics with proposed topics from survey? (Lorna will send link to Survey Monkey responses)
  • Gauge interest on day of unconference to determine topics for discussion

Spring Forum

• No updates on Dr. Sharon Chubbuck’s availability
• No updates on locations – waiting on Dr. Chubbuck’s availability
• Possible facilities include: UIC, DePaul
  • Other locations mentioned: Harper College and Moraine Valley Community College
• Deadline for CARLI funding proposal is in January
• Tentative topic: Diversity
  • Keynote followed by breakout afternoon sessions
  • Possible title: “Library Services for a Diverse Student Population”
  • Breakout sessions that connect instruction and diversity – wide range of topics, including:
• How to use library collection in instruction to discuss diversity
• Information literacy
• Student populations
  • Presenters for breakout sessions – send out a call for presenters
• May need to provide a more concrete theme for presenters
• Should this be an I-Share only event?
  • Group again tabled discussion of inviting graduate students; waiting to decide based on participation at Unconference.  End of semester may impact attendance for students.

New business

No new business to report.

The meeting was adjourned at 11:25 a.m.

Next meeting: January 17th 2012, 10:00 a.m. – 11:30 a.m.

Respectfully submitted,
Elizabeth Nicholson
Aurora University