Attending: Peter Cohn (minutes), Remlee Green (Chair), Bill Helman, Lisa Horowitz, Heather McCann, Linda Sobottka, Lisa Sweeney.
Announcements:
Research guides went live today. Libguides trainings and drop in sessions are in process.
JulyAP is in full swing. This Friday is Bioinformatics for 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 RISG members access to the R Drive. Remlee is working on 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 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 changes.
Vera Multisearch beta will be the only Vera aroundAugust 13. It is different enough that we need to alert frontline staff. The SFX updating is not as accurate as the Filemaker Pro database. To be resolved at some point. There are upcoming training on the new vera that we can 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.
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 added.
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 longer. Perhaps we can focus on the #s 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.
Next meeting: Remlee will lead us in revisiting goals.