Instruction Librarian (IL) Guide

LFG Meeting 

11:00 am, 5/6/2021

Attendees: Kirsten Abotsi, Sharon Fox, Joanne Galanis, Becky Helbling, Janice Hovis, Cathy Reilly, Sarah Smith

Key Information:

• A Healthfully survey should be completed before reporting to work on a campus. This system replaces the old survey. To sign up, look for an email dated 4/30 with the subject line: St. Louis Community College has invited you to join Healthfully.
• Sharon and Becky met with the Business Faculty. All the full-time faculty and some of the part-time faculty were able to join us. We highlighted Plunkett’s, O’Reilly, ABI Inform, and the Help for Faculty Guide. 
• Kirsten shared some of the work she has been doing with Statistics Dashboard. To see the kind of information she is making available see: https://stlcc.libinsight.com/instruction
• Kirsten shared the results of the usability study she conducted with a small group of students from Janice’s class.  She may follow up with another class of students who are not taking an LIB course and may not be as familiar with the Libraries website.
• We discussed a request from a faculty member to help a student find suitable places to submit an essay for publication. Cathy shared the service Submittable. Sarah suggested Medium as a popular self-publishing platform. 

Key Decisions:

• Janice will work with the Eng 101 COR team 
• We will suggest one or more sessions highlighting the Libraries and their resources on the recent survey regarding Professional Development Day in October, 2021. 

Tasks and Ownership:

• Becky will follow up with the Business Faculty regarding some of their collection suggestions.
• Sharon, Joanne, Becky, Janice and Cathy will communicate via email ideas for proposed sessions for PDD and have the survey completed by May 14.

1. Welcome

2. Healthfully App - Becky/Sarah

3. ENG COR - Cathy

4. Professional Development Day in October - Becky

5. Meeting with Business Faculty recap - Becky/Sharon

6. Statistics Dashboard - Kirsten

7. Usability study results - Kirsten

8. Faculty question (I need your help) - Becky

9. Other

Attendees: Kirsten Abotsi, Sharon Fox, Joanne Galanis, Becky Helbling, Janice Hovis, Cathy Reilly, Sarah Smith

Key Information:

• Kirsten shared a list of guides linked to courses that are in need of updating/templatizing.
• Sharon shared information about the Nursing Student Retention Report. See the document below. The whole report is interesting and provides good ideas for improving outcomes for students.The libraries and librarians are mentioned on page 47. :)
• Becky shared an update on the e-textbook project. So far, 7 instructors, teaching 32 sections over the spring, summer, and fall 2021 semesters have agreed to participate. We have found 10 unique titles that are available to purchase. The cost to the libraries is at most $1,146.09 for perpetual unlimited access. The potential savings to students is  $44,055.90.

Key Decisions:

• For clarity, we will initial our suggestions for "keep" or "cut" on the shared Periodicals and Standing Orders lists. If needed, we'll provide our initialed justifications for keep or cut in the comments section
• Our next meeting will be held on May 6. 

Tasks and Ownership:

• The full time instruction librarians will complete their review of periodical subscriptions and standing orders by April 30.
• Joanne will create a Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Reading List guide. 
• Sarah will discuss with AALT ideas to avoid missed communication.
• The full time instruction librarians will make guide updating a priority for those guides shared by Kirsten. 
• Becky will contact and make a plan with the adjuncts whose guides are on the updating list.
• Becky will send out a meeting invitation for the May 6 meeting.

Welcome

1. Periodical and Standing Order Review

2. DEI Guide (Keith Fuller Request)

3. Missed Communication? (Becky and Sharon)

4. Guide Templatization progress report (Kirsten)

5. Caputi's Nursing Student Retention Report, Libraries (Sharon)

6. Textbook Project update (Becky)

7. May meeting date?

 

Attendees: Sharon Fox, Joanne Galanis, Becky Helbling, Cathy Reilly, Janice Hovis

Key Information

• We noted that 2022 will be the 60^th anniversary of the College. Something to keep in mind for displays, etc.

• Janice is working on a weeding project at Wildwood.

• We discussed several valuable conferences we have attended recently. Recordings of useful presentations and supplemental materials we’ve discovered are listed below.

• Collaborating to Support Student Success Exploring Free e Text Access at Illinois State University

Real project details begin at about 18:00 minutes.

• Topic: Beyond CRAAP: SIFT & Information Literacy

• An OER Text on Information Literacy
  
• Imagining an Open Future with Robin DeRosa
  • introduces the cost-saving potential of OER, but also expands into a broader discussion of how open tools and practices can transform pedagogy and contribute to student success.

Key Decisions 

• We discussed nursing clinical titles. We would like to bring this topic to the Collection Management Committee

• We will match mentors and mentees for collection development based on selection area interest. We would like to have those matches made by the end of the day on March 26.

• We discussed the recent influx of advising and student affairs questions coming to Ask a Librarian. We believe that students are having trouble finding contact information for these departments on the STLCC website. We would like to propose some better access points on the website and a duplication of the STLCC mobile app chat feature somewhere on the STLCC website.

• We decided it is time to decommission the Reflib list. In most cases, messages shared on this list can be shared with Libraries/IR or askalibrarian, depending on content.

Tasks and Ownership

• Janice will work on updating the Evaluate your Sources page

• Becky will share the list of mentees and their selection areas with the group to facilitate assignments.

• Each of us will contact our collection management mentees early in the week of March 29.

• Becky will discuss with Sarah ideas about making Student Affairs contact info more findable on the website.

• Janice will send a message to Reflib, letting members know that the list will be decommissioned. 

• Becky will add nursing clinical titles to the next CMC agenda

Welcome

1. Conference Reports

2. Reflib - time to decommission?

3. Mentors for collection development

4. Introduction to College Research OER evaluation

5. Advising/Student Affairs questions through AaL

6. STLCC 60th Anniversary

7. Nursing books question

 

Attendees: Janice Hovis, Sarah Smith, Becky Helbling, Cathy Reilly, Sharon Fox, Joanne Galanis

Key Decisions:

• We will work on a revision of LIB101 to allow for more flexibility in assignments

Key Information:

• We recapped the meeting with AS&T. The meeting raised awareness of our research guides and awareness of how the libraries connect students with AS&T. We discussed the possibility of working with AS&T to better embed our presence in online courses.
• A subgroup of the Collection Management Committee will start a document to develop guidelines for collection development. Instruction Librarians will contribute to this document once it is shared.
• Instruction Librarians will mentor new selectors, as they opt in.
• Requests for additions to the collection will be evaluated using our collection development policy and guidelines.

Tasks and Ownership:

• Janice will create a One Drive folder with the course profile and brainstorming page to get us started on the revision of LIB101
• All of us will collect key contributions/successes on a document to be shared after the meeting. Due date: Feb. 23. To include positive feedback from students and faculty.

Welcome

1. Key activities/successes for FY2020 (July 1, 2019 - June 30, 2020) for Libraries Annual Report

2. AS&T Meeting recap

3. LIB101 Update

4. Collection "philosophy" collaborative work & new selector "mentoring" proposal

5. Author requests for additions to collections

 

Attendees: Sharon Fox, Joanne Galanis, Cathy Reilly, Sarah Smith, Kirsten Abotsi, Janice Hovis, Becky Helbling

Key Decisions

We'll keep the meeting minutes on the Instruction Librarian guide to maintain access for everyone.

We recommend renaming and editing the Connecting from Off Campus page

We will form a small work group to begin implementing proactive chat

We will create learning objectives for a brief class visit to eventually share with marketing for a campaign

Key Information

Janice has 12 students in LIB101

Tasks and Ownership

Kirsten will send a reminder to Ask A Librarian about SSO, etc.

Kirsten and Becky will work on renaming and editing the Connecting from Off Campus page

Janice, Kirsten, and Becky will work on proactive chat

Joanne, Cathy, Janice, Sharon, Becky, and Katy should have our book a librarian hours set by the end of the week.

Kirsten will add language to the booking computer form to indicate that drop-ins are allowed

All of us will add our names to the Collection Management Areas document

 

1. Welcome
2. Meeting minutes
3. SSO - Single Sign On, update "Connecting from Off Campus" info? May not need?
4. Making chat more proactive
   • Outreach: teaching students what "research help" and "Ask a Librarian" means
5. Possible Periodical Subscription -- Community College Journal of Research and Practice
   • Institution subscription rate - print & online is $1,780.00 (does not look like an online only is offered)
6. Collection Management Areas
7. Update Instruction Request Form?
8. Reminder: set Book a Librarian availability 
9. Update Help for Students? (Computer use on campus, etc.)
10. Student Cybersecurity Training Initiative  (Sharon, fyi)
11. Other?

How are our interactions transformational? Please add examples and ideas to our shared padlet.

Attendees: Sharon Fox, Joanne Galanis, Becky Helbling, Janice Hovis, Cathy Reilly

Key Information

• We agreed on a draft of the Collection Management Communication Strategy, to be shared with the Collection Management Committee at the next meeting of that group.
• Janice has made some great updates to the Digital Newspaper guide, making it much more robust.

 

Key Decisions

• We would like to investigate ways to make our chat more proactive and drive more students to use it.
• We will make recommendations for print titles from the Principles of Science series, using our current process, choosing titles that make sense for our campuses. In the request to purchase we will include a note that we would like to have the online access for the title turned on.

1. Welcome

2. Possible Periodical Subscription -- Community College Journal of Research and Practice

3. Proactive Chat?

4. Review Collection Management Communication Strategy (Due January 2021)

5. Helping Students Succeed Service Week Session

6. LibGuides: Digital Newspapers

7. Salem Press Principles of Science

8. Service Week Department meeting plan

 

 

 

1. Featured LibGuides for 2021

2. Collection Management Communication Strategy

3. Marketing Library Resources to Faculty/Staff Schedule

4. Progress report on updating LibGuides for accessibility/ using template.

5. STLCC Events Calendar -- setting up your profile to receive digests

6. Speaker Series Recordings

7. LIB101 for summer

8. Courses of record assignments: 

• PSY 200
• ECO 151
• PHL 101
• ENG 101

1. Team member updates

2. Collection Management Communication Strategy

3. Next department/group meeting: Business faculty? Academic Success? (Marketing Library Resources to Faculty/Staff)

 

1. Update -- Marketing Library Resources to IS Faculty

2. Weeding projects

3. Strategic Planning

4. Collection Management Strategy

5. LNaP Participation

 

LFG Meeting 2020-10-15

9:00 am - 11:00 am

Participants: Sharon Fox, Joanne Galanis, Becky Helbling, Janice Hovis, Cathy Reilly, Sarah Smith

1. Strategic Planning. We will work on the proposed draft goal and add 3 to 5 initiatives for that goal. See the LFG Strategic Planning Document.  

Due Date: November 10 

2. Collection Management. We discussed our assignment to develop a communication strategy for making decisions that are informed with feedback from relevant teaching faculty and administrators (for selection/deselection) We will use the Collection Management Communication Strategy Document to develop a plan.  

Due Date: January 2021 

3. Library Speakers Series All agreed that the first event in the Libraries' Speakers Series was a great success.Cathy shared that speakers were scheduled through the spring semester. After the meeting she shared a flier with more information. 

4. Marketing Library Resources to Faculty. Becky suggested that we begin with Information Systems faculty, as they are a districtwide department and we have some great resources to share with them. Becky, Sharon, and Janice volunteered to plan an event with them in November.  

5. Library Newsletter – we made plans for the next Library Newsletter. Cathy will coordinate and she, Joanne, Sharon, and Janice will contribute articles. 

6. Weeding Project -- Sarah shared information about a weeding project for the reference collections at FV and MC. We also discussed the need for weeding of the circulating collections at FP and WW. Lists of reference books at FV and MC will be shared with the librarians from those locations to begin the project.  

7. NYT in Databases A to Z – we agreed that we could add the online access to the NYT to the database list. I did not record who would be responsible to make the request to add it. 

LFG Meeting 

October 15, 2020 

9:00 am – 11:00 am 

1. Welcome 

2. Strategic Planning – Instruction Team Goal and Initiatives – Becky 

• Draft goal: Deliver responsive instructional programs to foster students’ academic success. 

3. Collection Management: Develop a communication strategy for making decisions that are informed with feedback from relevant teaching faculty and administrators (for selection/deselection) -- Becky 

4. Libraries Speaker Series Update-- Cathy 

5. Marketing Library Resources to faculty – choosing a group and a date 

6. Library Newsletter – Ideas for topics?-- Cathy 

7. Weeding project – Sarah 

8. NYT in Databases A to Z  - Sarah 

LFG Meeting 

September 17, 2020

Participants: Kirsten Abotsi, Sharon Fox, Joanne Galanis, Becky Helbling, Janice Hovis, Sheila Ouellette, Cathy Reilly, Sarah Smith

1. E Reference Books – 

• Sheila shared information about our e-reference books. She has verified that all titles in Gale Virtual Reference Library and Sage Knowledge are available with unlimited simultaneous users. That is also true for O’Reilly for Higher Education (formerly Safari) titles. 
• If we find outdated editions of e-reference titles showing up in searches, we should send an email to Sheila, Kirsten, and Carol to make sure these titles are removed from our collection, ArcherSearch, and catalog results.
• We subscribe to the Academic Core collection of Credo Reference. We may want to explore more about what is available through Credo at https://www.infobase.com/product/academia/credo-academic-core/

2. We have set a new deadline for converting our libguides to the template: December 18, 2020. Kirsten has sent out a list with the guides that still need to be converted.  Much work has been done, and much is left to do. J

3. We agreed that we would like to add an STLCC icon to databases that require an STLCC login. Among other things, this will help clarify access when we create mixed lists of resources in libguides. Amazingly, this icon was created and demo-ed during the meeting and as of this writing, all databases requiring login have been “iconized.” 

4. Kirsten shared information about an STLCC Mobile App that is in development and will roll out sometime in October. The libraries will be available through the app, for both current and prospective STLCC students. Kirsten is working with the development team to provide perspective from the libraries.

5. We discussed integrating Teams with Book a Librarian and decided we will wait until Teams has been fully rolled out and we have more time to practice with it.

6. Participation in Campus Life Event – Rush to Judgment. Those of us who are available will join the conversation during the campus life event. Becky will contact some faculty who teach media literacy to invite them to join us. A link to the event is below. The event description includes a link and password to view the video. https://events.stlcc.edu/event/rush_to_judgment_lecture_and_qa_session_with_documentary_creator_stephen_k_oldfield#.X0Am3i2z3Ls

7. Each LFG “lead” made a report.  Here are few takeaways from those reports: 

• Sharon has updated the A&OER guide, suggesting that using library resources may be one way to lower textbook costs for some courses. She suggested that we need to start with a student survey and faculty survey to determine interest/participation in A&OER at STLCC. 
• Sarah shared that our VCAA has substantial discretionary funds to put toward an A&OER initiative and Sarah is working on a proposal for setting this initiative in motion.
• Joanne has collected materials suggestions since we went online last spring. At our next meeting we will make shared decisions about those requests and work on processes for continued shared collection development. Joanne will bring a draft of processes that we can work from.
• Janice has plans for revisiting our involvement with Project Outcomes for instruction assessment and for bringing to our group new ideas for how we best deliver instruction.
• Cathy is working on compiling a list of all faculty for her efforts in communicating with faculty. She updated us about 2 faculty speakers series events, one which has been set for November 19 – Hot Books for Cold Nights. 
• I asked the team to let me know where we might have a need for new Online Learning Objects and will continue to create them as those needs arise. 

LFG Meeting 5/11/2020

1. Project Outcome -- Janice

2. Statistics Collection for Research Help Desk and for Instruction -- Becky and Janice

3. LOEX report - Sharon & Janice

 

 

Meeting of the Library Faculty Group

April 24, via Collaborate

1. Faculty brochure--Cathy

2.Discussion re: standing orders-- Cathy

3. Library Speaker Series update-- Cathy

4.. FTTC at UMSL.in September

5. Sage Knowledge Base Renewal -- look at statistics

6. Digital Campus issue & film databases

7. Library instruction videos, Screencast-O-Matic, and YouTube channel 

8. Kanopy changes

9. Featured LibGuides and social media

 

Meeting of the Library Faculty Group

April 3, 2020 via Collaborate

(originally scheduled for March 27, 2020 at Meramec, BA219L)

1. Review the minutes of our last meeting

2. Periodicals and Standing Orders

3. Idea for promoting the Library Newsletter on the "Accordion" -- Cathy

Date: February 21, 2020

LFG Meeting

Attendees: Sharon Fox, Janice Hovis, Sarah Smith, Kirsten Abotsi, Becky Helbling, Cathy Reilly, Joanne Galanis

Key Decisions:

Our next meetings will be on March 27 (M), April 17 (FV), and May 8 (FP)

We recommend moving forward with the Library Speakers Series, with a possible pilot in fall 2020. Cathy will bring this initiative to the Marketing and Outreach Committee.

We will consider databases renewal with the following criteria in mind:

• Cost
• Usage
• Overlap with other databases
• Accessibility
• Faculty input

We will meet on March 6, 9:00 am at Forest Park to work on database renewals, periodicals and standing orders. 

At our next meeting we will draft a message to faculty regarding instruction to be distributed during Fall Service Week.

We will continue our discussion of Kirsten’s Wacky Website idea.

Key Information:

Instruction Librarians are interested in cross-training with circulation, acquisitions, collections, and systems. The purpose of this cross-training would be to better understand each other’s work and how we can best support our students. 
 

When sharing documents from your OneDrive, use the share function instead of sending a link.This will make it easier for the recipient to later find the item in their own OneDrive.

Tasks and ownership:

Janice will start working on a document to share during cross-training, starting with some of the ideas on the READ Scale.

Janice will create a shared folder in OneDrive for LFG.office.com

Kirsten will update the Libraries Resources in Blackboard to add Ask A Librarian and change the language under Library Resources.

Becky will work on generalizing the language on the Keyword and Subject section the next time she templatizes a guide.

Kirsten will send a progress report to each LibGuide author, informing them of their progress made toward making our guides accessible.

 

LFG Meeting 2020-02-21

1. Review minutes from our last meeting

2. Speakers Series -- Cathy

3. Cross-Training -- Becky, Sarah

4. Database Review -- establishing a process

5. OER Updates

6. Lisa See author events and marketing -- Cathy

7. Library Newsletter-- Cathy

8. Files and folders, locations of-- Becky

9. LIB 101 - Janice

10. Periodical subscriptions and standing orders -- suggestions due by a date to be determined today.

12. Suggested change to description under Library Resources in Bb LTI - Sharon

11. LibGuides Accessibility progress report - Kirsten

12. (Wacky) Website idea - Kirsten

January 24, 2020

LFG Meeting, Florissant Valley, 9:00 am – 12:00 pm

Attendees: Kirsten Abotsi, Sharon Fox, Becky Helbling, Janice Hovis, Cathy Reilly

Key Decisions: 

We will continue the speakers series conversation at our next meeting

We are interested in reducing the number of databases from the standpoint of usability for students. We need more information, including costs, usage and how databases are bundled to make good decisions.

We agree that we should actively work to promote OER/low cost/library resource-based textbook and course materials options with faculty

Key Information:

We discussed ideas for reorganizing the databases page, thinking of usability for students.

Tasks and ownership: 

Becky will follow up with Sarah regarding citation generating software subscriptions

Kirsten will add the Election 2020 as a third featured guide, through the election season

Janice will create a guide for Clinical Laboratory Technology

Cathy will head up the spring newsletter project

Janice and Sharon will work on the OER survey for faculty

Kirsten will launch the Book a Librarian pilot either this afternoon or Monday morning.

Next Meeting: February 21, 9:00 am - 12:00 pm, Forest Park

 

Meeting of the Library Faculty Group

January 24, 2020

9:00 am - 12:00 pm

IR-202, Library Classroom

1. Review the minutes of our last meeting
2. Instruction time (Cathy)
3. Budget
4. Conference reports (carry over from last meeting)
5. New adjunct, Rebecca Benson (Becky)
6. Instruction Librarian Orientation List
7. FP Library Updates: new hires, group study rooms (Sharon)
8. Course Guide: ENG 060 https://guides.stlcc.edu/ENG060-Poverty (Sharon)
9. Research Guide: Election 2020 (Janice)
10. Ongoing OER Conversation - use of LibWizard? (All)
11. Book a Librarian info (beta) 
12. Finalize "Features" area on Libraries website
13. #BookFace Challenge https://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/03/fashion/oh-those-clever-librarians-and-their-bookface.html (Sharon, learned about this from Rebecca Benson) – social media Library Week idea?
14. Other

Meeting of the LFG 2019-12-06

Key Information:

Our next meeting will be on January 24 at 9:00 am at Florissant Valley

Key Decisions:

We will change the email reference to a districtwide account.

We will publish one spring newsletter that will include Sarah’s introduction.

We’re moving forward with a pilot for Book a Librarian

Tasks and ownership:

Becky will send out links to two sessions from the OER conference

• Opening Keynote - Paving the Way Towards Students Success: Librarians as Leaders and Partners in OER Initiatives
• Learning to Open: Working with Faculty in a Community of Practice on Open Educational Resources

Becky will request a new outlook account for Library Research Help so that we can have one email reference account.

Kirsten, Becky, Janice and Jana will work out details for Book a Librarian to begin a pilot with South County for spring

Kirsten will create a side menu item what’s new with three items – newsletter, what’s new (books) and book a librarian.

Sharon and Cathy will email their conversations with circ to Becky to be posted in the minutes.

Becky will ask Sheila to trial HeinOnline for 6 months

Joanne, Sharon, and Janice and Becky will talk to Writing Centers regarding citation generators/managers

 

Meeting of the Library Faculty Group

December 6, 2019

9:00 am - 12:00 pm

BA219L

1. Review the minutes of our last meeting
2. Instruction discussion -- Becky
3. Questions and ideas about chat, assessment, etc. -- Sarah
4. Division Meeting -- Service Week 2020 
5. Book a Librarian Pilot? - Becky, Kirsten
6. Newsletter/News proposal for home page - Kirsten
7. Conference reports
8. Conversations with Circ.- Cathy, Sharon, Joanne, others?
9. HeinOnline - Becky
10. Nursing resources on public workstations - Sharon
11. Nursing accreditation visit, February 2020  (Accreditation Commission for Education in Nursing (ACEN) – Sharon

12. Citation generators

Date: November 8, 2019 

Meeting of the Library Faculty Group

Attendees: Sarah Smith, Monica Holland, Kirsten Abotsi, Sharon Fox, Becky Helbling, Cathy Reilly, Joanne Galanis

Key Information:

We are continuing to revise our libguides to make them more accessible. 

Kirsten, Sharon, Janice, Becky will attend the OER Amigos Conference. This is an online conference on December 4. For more information see: https://www.amigos.org/OER. Registration is free.

Cathy shared ideas about a Library Speaker Series

Key Decisions:

We will create the next instruction librarian newsletter for spring.

We will issue a special edition of the newsletter, introducing Sarah Smith to the campuses.

We will print off copies of the newsletter to share with every department on the campuses.

We would like a trial of Visible Body

Tasks and ownership:

Sharon will add resources for mind training and mindfulness in education to the professional development area of the librarian guide.

Cathy will send the last newsletter to Sarah

We should all bring ideas to our next meeting for the spring issue of the newsletter.

Becky will figure out how to create a distribution list for the departments districtwide.

Kirsten will investigate where we can put library news on our library website

Cathy will take the lead on the special edition of the newsletter.

Sarah will talk with Sheila about a trial to LibCal (specifically appointments)

Becky, Sharon and Kirsten will play around with our free version of LibCal to see how it might work for adding a Book A Librarian option to our Ask A Librarian page.

Becky will send a quick video to the instruction librarians demonstrating how to digitally sign forms using Adobe DC Pro

Becky will talk with Sheila about setting up a trial to Visible Body.

Cathy will lead our instruction discussion for the January meeting.

Meeting of the Library Faculty Group

November 8, 2019

1. Welcome to our new District Dean of Libraries, Sarah Smith
2. Review minutes from our last meeting
3. Instruction Discussion led by Sharon
4. Next library newsletter
5. Book a Librarian
   • https://ulib.iupui.edu/guides/libcal-my-scheduler-ul-librarians
   • http://iupui.libcal.com/appointments/
6. LibGuides progress report - Kirsten
7. OER - upcoming (online) conference, rep. to MOBIUS - Kirsten
8. OER - OpenRN https://www.cvtc.edu/landing-pages/grants/open-rn
9. Visible Body - request a trial? -- Janice
10. Digitally signing forms using Adobe Pro DC
11. Library Speaker Series (proposal)-- Cathy
12. Using the asterisk (*) in catalog searches-- Cathy
13. Promote LatinX Film Festival
14. Wrap up

 

 

Meeting of LFG 2019-10-18

Attendees: Joanne Galanis, Sharon Fox, Janice Hovis, Cathy Reilly, Becky Helbling

Key Information:

We reviewed the statistics collected during October. Janice noted some inconsistencies in how we recorded statistics from campus to campus.

Zoom is available for us through Morenet. At a future meeting we will look into possibilities for using Zoom with students at a distance. There are other resources available through Morenet. See https://www.more.net.  

The Peter Felten's keynote address is available for the FTTC conference. See http://www.umsl.edu/services/ctl/fttc/keynote.html. The focus of this keynote is the importance of relationship in student success – mentor of the moment. Past keynotes are also available there and also highly recommended.

We all have access to OneDrive and Office 365. The best way to access it is to go to Office.com, and log in using your stlcc.edu email address and password. We all have 1 terabyte of storage on OneDrive. 

ArcherSearch is a great tool for finding course guides using course name, course number, or instructor last name. Example: you can find the ESL 060 course guide by typing in ESL 060 or Diversity

We should be judicious in our requests for rush orders. When we do make a rush order, we should provide information about why it is rush and who is requesting it. This will help acquisitions prioritize orders.

Key Decisions:

We will revise the statistics collection form and provide better instruction to improve the accuracy of our statistics for the spring.

We would like to add Business (Gale OneFile) to Best Bets for Business and demote Basic Computer Skills @ Learning Express to below the Best Bets

We will devote one hour at the beginning of our future meetings to instruction. Sharon will plan our discussion for our next meeting.

We created a schedule for featured libguides through November 2020 and added it to the Featured Libguides tab in this guide.

Our next meeting is tentatively scheduled for November 8 at FP.

Tasks and Ownership:

Becky will talk to Kirsten about possibilities for Book A Librarian software options through Springshare.

Becky will communicate our Business database decision to Kirsten.

Janice will explore Microsoft Teams for possible adoption by our group.

Sharon will plan our discussion for our next meeting.

 

 

 

 

Meeting of the LFG

October 18, 2019

1. Featured Libguides for October to October
2. Zoom
3. FTTC at UMSL-- Cathy and Sharon
4. SLRLN Workshop at University City Library -- Cathy, Joanne, Sharon, Becky
5. Update on adjunct search
6. Rush orders procedures
7. Best Bets for Business databases
8. OneDrive update - Janice
9. Professional Development Day
10. Course guide finder