Minutes of June 1, 2007 Meeting

Present:

Jeris Cassel, Theo Haynes, Triveni Kuchi, Roberta Tipton, Donna Wertheimer

Amendment to the agenda made to include announcements

Minutes of 5/11/2007 approved

Announcements:

• Bobbie reported that Tricia Libutti has already sent a draft of the Searchpath assessment report. Jeris and Bobbie will be working on a results and discussion section for the report.
Eileen reported from Planning and Coordinating open lines status discussion that Marianne would soon be acting on the AUL for RIS position. Eileen reported about library statistics especially in relation to reference and instruction. Extended discussion ensued. Check out A Multi-Dimensional Framework for Academic Support from the University of Minnesota http://www.lib.umn.edu/about/mellon/docs.phtml.

Election for Chair of ISC for 2007-2009:

Jeris Cassel and Eileen Stec were selected as chair and vice-chair respectively for a two year term 2007-2009.

Theo will clarify ISC's role regarding assessment and impact of library instruction with PSC.

The lack of easily accessible professional development opportunities for instruction librarians that would help develop avenues to reach out to all types of learners as well as to survive the learning curve of new technologies was pointed out. Further discussions would help clarify how competencies of instruction librarians can be improved or developed while keeping in mind their heavy instruction, reference, and collection development schedules.