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Charm school - Michael Noga came to talk to us about Charm school. He gave a historical perspective, and told us how he and a group of other librarians got involved and made a library course. It started as a skit, but now it's a quiz. He sets up three laptops, and gives a group of students a few questions and asks them to use whatever resources they can to find the answer. He gives prizes, mostly candy and movie tickets for really great searching skills. He shared some experiences and explained how it fits into the larger charm school idea. He is going to be putting out a call to get people to help him work on it.
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- Graduate student office (dean Dean of graduate school) offers a grant for something that supports graduate student life. If we have an idea, when they post the grant, it would be a good idea. Usually limited amount of time to respond, so this is something good to think about on an ongoing basis so we're ready when they announce it.
- Reserve the DIRC for IAP soon ! - The schedule is filling up! It has been updated to improve video capture of sessions.
- Don't forget to use the perception of relevance survey at IAP sessions!
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- Mark and Lisa are preparing for Immersion, interviewing stakeholders (Greg Harris -institutional surveys, someone from teaching and learning lab, education, innovation and assessment director, about their roles and assessment? Giving long term ideas for inserting ourselves in to classes
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- ISG update - Core competencies group is ramping up.
We updated the Goals and Future agenda items table, located here: .
Reference Vision Project Report
We spent some time going over the current draft of the Reference Visions Project report. It was an engaging conversation, with plenty of suggestions and discussions, that both clarified text on the report, and in our minds.
I don't know if we need to include all this detail in the minutes.
Question about calling the reference vision a public services vision. It's larger than reference, but does not include all of public services.
Part of the flexibility, entrepreneurial, opportunist element in exploring new tools that we provide to users might be missing. Examples exist of unpredictability of environment. The new vision does not really mention the adaptability of the libraries, which is one of our strengths. We innovate and figure out ways to provide service in novel ways. There is an unpredictability about what users are going to need, but we are nimble enough to handle it.
Benchmarks and new vision - Are we going to propose specific action items? Do we want to give ourselves some goals for what we want to achieve? Possibly wait until we get the results from the survey to set goals? It might be a while before we see those data. We'll submit this report, and the group below will work on a separate vision and goals documents.
Does the photo diary have a role in this report? Also a user needs assessment (data in DSpace, libraries community) that was done for web services, and there may be valuable data to include in this. A subgroup will talk about statistics and developing goals from the stats (Lisa, Angie, Bill, Maggie), no sooner than January.