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JulyAP is in full swing. This Friday is Bioinformatics for beginners Beginners is taking place.
Stephen Skuce is leaving Ask-Us! because of responsibilities of his new position.
PCS -Scanners will be coming in early August. New printers are arriving August 1st in divisional libraries. Branch library machines will be ordered soon.
There are issues with some Some RISG members do not have access to the R Drive. Remlee is working on resolving this.
Libguides question:
On the main template page, when a new database is ordered, if you ask Marion to add it she'll update the central list which will update the vera Vera list on a subject page. Subject specialists, upon hearing about a database, can ask Marion to add the database to their subject areas. Subject specialists can also copy the information to their own subject pages without going through Marion but then they will have to update their pages if changes occur to that database centrally.
Vera changes:
The Vera Multisearch multisearch beta will be become the only default Vera aroundAugust sometime around August 13. It This change is different significant enough that we need to alert frontline staff. The Also, the SFX updating, which indicates what we have available online is not as accurate as the Filemaker Pro database . To we have been using. This will be resolved at some point. There are upcoming training sessions on the new vera that Vera. we can should encourage staff to attend.
Changes in Vera mean we need changes to tutorials! We have a subgroup working on central tutorials but there are many database specific tutorials that people are updating. Alas, many tutorials start at the home page which is changing. Angie suggests that tutorials begin from the Vera shortcut URL . so that tutorials won't need to be redone every time changes are made to our home page/Vera.
Instruction Assessment for Graduate students
While we have a pilot for undergraduate instruction, what shall we do with graduate sessions? Angie distributed perception of relevance results from Zoomerang. Lisa has done some massaging of data as has Mat Wilmot.
We are still suppose to be using the relevant survey form.
Perception of relevance data is good but we need to have questions that give us actions we can take. We made various tweeks fro spring semester --adding dates and dept. for instance. (Making it possible to sort by these things.) Still there are text entries that can't be easily sorted.
Angie has been trying to make some Workshop names standardized in a drop down ie -regularly offered classes like Endnote. Then we could sort by these but enter other courses in the Other form. Which classes should Angie include?-Don't include orientations.
Lisa asked about adding course names to the zoomerang form. Instruction Coordinators and Lisa Sweeney could add classes as say, IAP courses get addedto assess instruction sessions for other groups of users like graduate students? The assessment subgroup is recommending that we continue to use the relevance survey for non-undergraduate sessions as appropriate.
Does the perception of relevance actually give us useful knowledge that we can act on? Is it important to continue this? Is it good to keep having stats that continue to confirm our relevance? Lets keep this up for awhile longerWe decided that this was worth continuing. Perhaps we can might focus on the #s numbers of non satisfied users?
Who to use this survey with? Undergrads no. So, do it for any non undergrad courses when appropriate.
Angie will run this by Dewey before finalizing. She'll also send Mat's excel sheet of the zoomerang results.
users who don't perceive the sessions as relevant to see if there are actions we can take. We agreed that we would continue to use the relevance survey for non-undergraduate sessions where appropriate (ie not for tours and orientations.) Angie will check with Anita and Maggie to make sure they agree before this decision is final.
We discussed some enhancements to the zoomerang form to make it easier for us to sort and analyze data. Last spring we made some adjustments like adding department names in a drop down menu. (Cutting down on free text entries that can't be sorted.) Angie is going to add a list of regularly offered sessions to a drop down --again to aid in sorting. As new courses arise they can be added to this list as well.
Angie will send the excel spreadsheet of relevance data from IAP and Spring 2008 to the committee.
Next meeting:
Next meeting: Remlee will lead us in revisiting goals.