Instruction Committee Meeting: August 22, 2014- Draft

Conference Call

Members Present: Molly Beestrum, Frances Brady, Michelle Guittar, Laura Mondt, Lora Smallman, Chelsea Van Riper, Frances Whaley, Anne Zald

Members Absent: Beth Mandell, Aimee Walker

CARLI Staff Present: Debbie Campbell

CARLI Staff Absent: Lorna Engels

Guests: NILRC Members - Amy Glass (Illinois Central College), Karen Becker (Kankakee Community College)

Decisions:

• Event planned with NILRC Information Literacy Committee will be a webinar featuring faculty/speakers experienced in successful library partnerships. Tentative date for webinar will be late November/early December.
• Committee would like to host an Instruction Showcase again and will discuss more at September meeting.

Announcements:

• Lora Smallman would take minutes.
• Minutees from the July in-person meeting are posted to the CARLI website.

Tasks assigned:

• Everyone think about location for Instruction Showcase (to be discussed at next meeting).
• Chelsea forwarded information about ACRL Information Literacy Best Practices. 
• Michelle will compose an email for the instruction list serv related to successful partnerships and invite responses.  Committee will monitor responses to identify potential panelists for webinar
• Frances W. will give us access to NILRC wiki.

Discussions:

• Brainstorming with Guests from NILRC Information Literacy Committee: Annual project ideas/events/resources:
  • Articulation
    • Amy & Karen & Frances shared information about what NILRC has done.
  • What can CARLI/NILRC do to encourage faculty engagement?
    • Use blog post (email list post) to feed into an event?
    • Faculty-Librarian collaboration
    • develop ToolKit for working with Faculty/Best practices document
    • Research assignment design
    • Panel of faculty to provide alternative perspective (preferably webinar format)
      • Webinar in late November/early December?
  • Best practices/program in other settings
  • Best practices for information Literacy Programs (info from ACRL)
  • Unlikely partnerships?
  • Information literacy at the graduate level
• Email List/blog
  • Poll the email list to collect stories/examples of successful partnerships to share on the blog.

Meeting Schedule:

• Next Meeting: Friday, September 19, 2014, phone, 10:00-11:30
• Tuesday, July 29, 2014, CARLI Office/phone, 10:00-2:30
• Friday, August 22, 2014, phone, 10:00-11:30
• Friday, September 19, 2014, phone, 10:00-11:30
• Friday, October 17, 2014, phone, 10:00-11:30
• Friday, November 21, 2014, phone, 10:00-11:30
• Friday, December 19, 2014, phone, 10:00-11:30
• Friday, January 16, 2015, phone, 10:00-11:30
• Friday, February 20, 2015, phone, 10:00-11:30
• Friday, March 20, 2015, phone, 10:00-11:30
• Friday, April 17, 2015, phone, 10:00-11:30
• Friday, May 15, 2015, phone, 10:00-11:30
• Friday, June 19, 2015, phone, 10:00-11:30

Minutes Schedule:

• July 2014- Laura Mondt
• August 2014- Lora Smallman
• September 2014- Chelsea Van Riper
• October 2014- Aimee Walker
• November 2014- Frances Whaley
• December 2014- Anne Zald
• January 2015- Molly Beestrum
• February 2015- Frances Brady
• March 2015- Michelle Guittar
• April 2015- Beth Mandrell
• May 2015- Laura Mondt
• June 2015- Lora Smallman