Instruction Committee – September 9, 2022

Members attending: Alex Deeke, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Guillermo Gasca, Morton College; Abigail Mann, Illinois Wesleyan University; Alex O'Keefe, School of the Art Institute of Chicago; Claire Reinert, McKendree University; Firouzeh Rismiller, DePaul University; Rebecca Starkey, University of Chicago

Members absent: Joanna Kolendo, Chicago State University; Heather Koopmans, Illinois State University

Staff attending: Denise Green, Debbie Campbell

Announcements

• CARLI News + Events
  • CARLI events calendar review
  • Grant money is still available for OER projects
  • No committees have selected a project yet that Denise works with
  • New colleagues at CARLI
  • CARLI Annual Meeting: Friday, Nov. 4 - planned for in-person (first since 2019)
  • Debbie shared a Firefox article suggestion - continuing lawsuit for the Internet Archive

Decisions

• We confirmed the Minute Taker Schedule was complete.
• The theme for the group’s work this year was finalized: Re-examining Library Instruction
• We discussed previous events put on by the committee to help the group brainstorm. These included: Guest speakers / article reading then discussion / Instruction showcase / Discussion with just questions to start a conversation (without an article reading)
• The October Event was set (title to be determined)
  • 11 am - 12 pm on Monday 10/24
  • Claire and A
  • lex D. will moderate
  • The theme will revolve around Quiet Quitting and a discussion of sustainable practices for academic librarians
  • There will be no required reading / recommendation list, but the group will brainstorm recommendations and create a crowd-sourced document that folks can contribute to outside of the committee.
  • Tasks were delegated (see tasks below)
• The November event theme was determined: Re-examining the one-shot
  • The group will review the ACRL Issue about One-Shots and pick an article as the shared reading during our October meeting
• The December event was tentatively determined as an open discussion space called December Decompress to encourage folks to practice slowing down and reflecting

Tasks Assigned

• Create October Event document - Alex O
• Write Event description - Guillermo
• Add resources - EVERYONE
• Add discussion questions - EVERYONE
• Work on titles for the event - EVERYONE

Meeting Dates and Deadlines

• Next Meeting: October 18 on Zoom
• Schedule of Instruction Committee Meetings:
  • November 15
  • December 20
  • January 17
  • February 21
  • March 21
  • April 18
  • May 16
  • June 20