DRAFT!! EDIT AS YOU SEE FIT!
RISG Minutes, 11/28/07Present: Maggie Bartley, Peter Cohn (chair), Remlee Green (minutes), Lisa Horowitz, Angie Locknar, Heather McCann, Georgiana McReynolds, Alan Rostoff, Lisa Sweeney, Mark Szarko
Announcements:* Angie updated the Instruction web page.
- Instruction Stats form is almost done! Sands is finishing some last details, but it should be ready soon.
Update from IAP coordinators:
6 courses are live in the IAP directory so far, and lots more are coming. Sessions need to be submitted by 12/14 in order to be included on the poster. The brown bag on IAP planning went well. The Libraries' IAP Coordinators attended a lunch with all MIT IAP coordinators; a suggestion was made to have the ability to choose multiple categories for a session.
Barton searching: Rebecca Lubas had mentioned wanting to do a "Stump the Catalogers" session for library staff during IAP. The session would explain the structure of the catalog and bring up some secrets of cataloging and displays. This may be a good class for students, if the subject were broader. Peter will follow up with Rebecca.
*Instruction Assessment Survey:*An RISG subgroup is starting to work on an assessment instrument to be ready for IAP. The subgroup has met a few times and has come up with some survey questions. Since the instruction plan mentions a robust assessment in the Fall, the survey will be kept simple for now. Because of some limitations in using Zoomerang for surveys, a paper survey will be used for IAP. Instruction Coordinators will collect the surveys, and the data will be entered into Zoomerang, so that results can be better manipulated.
*System-wide instruction plan implementation:*Authors of the plan have met to figure out how to implement the plan, and a preliminary timeline with recommendations is in place. After a more thorough timeline is developed, the group will describe the plan to RISG, to distribute tasks in the timeline.
*Refining priorities for the year: & come up with a checklist of recurring items in RISG's purview:*The group prioritized goals and created a list of recurring goals on the RISG wiki goals page.