Minutes of June 10, 2003 Meeting

Present:: Bobbie Tipton, Leslie Murtha (chair), Rebecca Gardner, Jackie Mardikian, Patricia Libutti, Eileen Stec (recorder), Theo Haynes (virtually).

Minutes from 4/4/03 meeting accepted as written.

Announcements

Theo Haynes will attend a learning portfolio workshop and share information with ISC.
Eileen Stec has been nominated for the Douglass Fellows Curriculum Committee.
Committee was encouraged to attend the Diversity Brown Bag presentation on Chinese Painting; the SAPAC Brown bag "from ideation to publication" May 8, Tricia Libutti presenting; upcoming metadata workshop using the Unicorn software for training.

Discussion about policy for BI's for high School groups. Recommended that these occur during intercession and be planned with library personnel. This will be placed on next month's agenda for further discussion.

Indication of interest must be made by May 15th. Eileen Stec volunteered as point person.

Neither the Benchmarking and Competencies team nor the Qualitative Methodology & Needs Assessment Team have been able to meet because of the 50- minute instructor seminar work. Both teams will be looking for places to dovetail with the SAILS assessment and will make their initial reports after the June ISC meeting. Bobbie Tipton is joining the Benchmarking & Competencies team.

Any emails we receive from participants (the last exercise) will be folded into the assessment. The committee looked at raw data and means pulled together by Leslie. Tricia will take the written comments and look at them for qualitative analysis.

Discussion on assisting faculty in incorporating assignments that promote information literacy into their courses. Possibly gathering syllabi from teaching faculty to search for good examples of assignments. Tricia will be the point person for this process.
The group would also like to invite Lynn Mullins to discuss the accreditation process from the perspective of a Middle States Commission Examiner.
Discussion also continued about developing a web page to help faculty to understand information literacy as described by Middle States. Tricia will be the point of aggregation. ISC members will locate these and forward to the ISC list with comments.