Senate Library Subcommittee
Minutes
Monday, February 23, 2004
2:30 p.m. in LB 440a
Present: A. Crismore, L.
Hite, J. Jackson, C. Kracher, D. Mueller, K. Murphey, D. Oberstar,
J. Violette
Guests: T. Adkins, P. Sandstrom
The minutes of the October
24, 2003 meeting were approved as distributed.
Announcements:
J. Violette
distributed a summary table of this year’s Special Needs Funds requests. The Library Subcommittee will review the
requests at the next meeting. J. Violette will distribute copies of the applications along
with Larry Griffin’s notes prior to the meeting.
J. Violette
distributed a copy of the draft resolution on serials costs prepared by a
faculty member in
Indiana University Libraries
have now hired a database negotiator for system‑wide license
agreements. The goal is to provide
better access to databases across the system with better administrative
efficiency.
Library renovation of the
second floor is nearly complete. The
ITPC has agreed to use student technology funds to purchase modular group study
units for the second floor. Space for
four groups will be provided initially.
We will renovate the space vacated on the first floor by moving DDS
staff closer to the Service Desk and by creating a suite of offices for
reference librarians. We will also add
more reference consulting areas. A
library addition has been approved by the Purdue Board of Trustees. If funding is provided by the next
legislature and required local funds are raised, the addition will be ready in
2008.
Information Literacy
Pamela Sandstrom,
Head of Reference and Information Services, and Tiff Adkins, Reference
Librarian and Outreach Coordinator, provided an update to the library’s
instructional activities and a sneak preview of the library instruction modules
currently under development.
The librarians were reluctant
to change the information literacy resolution in any way that would appear to
add a burden on faculty. Instead,
librarians are emphasizing the partnership between faculty and librarians that
will improve teaching and learning. In
fact, the program is now renamed the Librarian‑Faculty Information
Literacy Partnership.
The library staff have targeted specific courses that include a major
writing or research component. Library
guides to appropriate sources of information will be prepared for all of these
courses in conjunction with the faculty who teach them.
Assessment will be handled in
three ways: 1) instructional modules under development will include pre‑
and post‑tests; 2) evaluations and assessment of the general education
program will necessarily include information literacy (which is buried under
"computer literacy" in the general education requirements); and 3)
librarians will work with individual departments to integrate information
literacy assessment with program review and assessment activities.
J. Violette
asked the Subcommittee to consider what to do next: drop the resolution? Or send it fourth "for information
only"? What suggestions do the
subcommittee members have for selecting appropriate courses for librarians to
target?
The next meeting of the
subcommittee will be on Monday, March 22 at 2:30 in room 419.
Recorded by J. Violette
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Senate Library Subcommittee Minutes Present: A. Crismore, S. Hartman,
L. Hite, D. Mueller, D. Oberstar, J. Violette Absent: J. Jackson, C. Kracher,
K. Murphey The meeting was called to
order by J. Violette. Introductions were made. David Oberstar was elected
chair for 2003‑2004. The minutes of the meeting
of Library director J. Violette reported that • The library’s materials budget is flat for the 5th consecutive
year and has resulted in serials cancellations. Gifts, grants, and the endowment helped
cover materials purchases. • Renovations are
underway on the second floor and things will be torn up and somewhat out of
order for the duration of the fall semester. • The • The Indiana
University Libraries are working to establish a common pool of funds for
purchase of databases that are shared throughout the system. • IUCAT enhancements
include My Account that allows a user to see what they have checked out and
to renew items, e‑mail notification (which will be the only
notifications after this year), and in November "request delivery,"
a new direct request system from within the catalog. Old
Business D. Oberstar will check on the status of the Information Literacy
resolution sent to the University Resources Policy Committee last spring. New
Business Subcommittee members Crismore and Violette attended presentations at IUPUI on institutional
repositories and on open access. The
Subcommittee will discuss these issues later and consider bringing open
access advocate Dr. Peter Suber (Earlham College)
to campus along with retired faculty member Dr. Fred Jehle
for a forum sometime this year. Next
meeting The next meeting of the Subcommittee will be on Friday, October
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