CLUE - E-mail Update - March 2001
There was no CLUE meeting scheduled in March 2001, therefore Trudi Hahn (Chair) sent the following e-mail message to CLUE members: 1. Beyond the Basics. Alesia McManus suggested to Bob Kackley, who passed it to me, that a brown bag meeting to debrief on these classes would be a good idea. I agree. We not only need to share our experiences from this semester, but need to talk about how to improve the classes in the future, and to consider how BTB might be affected by the introduction of TILT. 2. Survey of instructors and TA's about their requirements for bibliographies. User Ed will have tentative results at the next CLUE meeting, and we can discuss what the findings imply for future actions. 3. TILT and ENGL 101. Paula Greenwell, Pat Herron, Maggie, and I are part of the group (also including Gary Philips, Paula Hayes, Barbara Nail-Chiwetalu, Jason Snyder, Gina Calia, and Peggy Antonisse) who are adapting TILT for UM. Peggy is taking the lead in communicating with the ENGL 101 program (mainly Linda Coleman, Director of Freshmen Writing) about how TILT will be integrated into their curriculum. Peggy is also working closely with Gary on the technical and access issues. Maggie, Barbara, Gina, and Jason are teaching themselves java scripting so as to be able to tinker with those parts of TILT that use that language. The group has divided into teams of 2 each to tackle individual sections, and Jason is compiling all the comments. Jason is also conducting background research on evaluation/assessment of Web tutorials. 4. New initiatives for the Honors program. Diane Harvey and I recently had a meeting with Maynard (Sandy) Mack, Jim Airozo, and Traci Dula about the Honors 100 and 200 classes, and their information literacy needs. They were receptive to our suggestions about library instruction classes, but much needs to be further discussed and resolved. Diane will be taking the lead on this, and will communicate with us as she learns more. (Unfortunately, Diane will not be able to make the next meeting, but we'll look forward to hearing from her when she has something to report). 5. ENGL 101 for spring 2001 The numbers are in, and so are the evaluations. All will be revealed at the CLUE meeting. 6. IMLS grant update. Trudi and Lori Goetsch have been working with our partners (CLIS, College of Education, Maryland Department of Education) in planning how to spend the $240,000 grant from IMLS. Paula Hayes will be joining our group. One key component of the plan is a 5-day training workshop that will be offered this summer to high school teachers, school library media specialists, and CLIS students training to be media specialists. The content of the workshop is information technology in support of information literacy, and integrating it into school curricula. I will bring drafts of the workshop proposal and also a needs assessment instrument that we will be using to determine what training workshop participants want and need. Several UM librarians will likely be involved as instructors. 7. GA for User Ed. Sadly, Gina Calia is graduating in May, and we will need to replace her (seems like she just got here!) I am beginning the interviews of candidates this week. 8. Outstanding Service to the Schools Award NOT! Oh well. Lori nominated Pat Herron, Lily Griner, Heleni Pedersoli, Zaida Diaz, David Wilt and me for our work with the Hispanic students from Northwestern High School. We had heart-warming letters of support from the school and from our partners at the Center for Renaissance & Baroque Studies. Even though we didn't win, it was wonderful to be nominated. 9. Faculty seminars Bob Kackley is organizing more graduate/graduate student seminars on Science Citation Index & Journal Citation Report. They are scheduled for May 3 (A.V. Williams Building) and May 9 (McKeldin). We have had inquiries about offering this topic to staff; we have referred them to the Peer Training Collective. Trudi and Diane Patric have scheduled a ProCiteand EndNote seminar in June. 10. Report from ACRL. Highlights of brown bag lunch 4/17. I will bring copies of the summary notes I created. A few items are of particular importance to CLUE. 11. Guides Gina Calia has reviewed all of our guides on paper and on the Web (several hundred of them!) to see what will be affected by the McKeldin moves and floor renumbering (which we hope will happen this summer). Now that we have the list, we will be ready to move quickly once these changes happen. Gina also updated Lost in the Library? and the McKeldin Virtual Tour. 12. Library Safari 7 classes were taught this spring, out of 9 potential sections of EDCP 108O, EDCP 108R, or UNIV 101. If this rate of saturation (77%) continues in the fall, we are in for a VERY busy semester. As before, the evaluations were positive and the instructors extremely pleased. I will be making a long presentation on all aspects of the development, delivery, and assessment of Safari at the LOEX conference in May. 13. Chapter 13 No, not bankruptcy. This is the chapter in Introduction to Engineering Design that Maggie and I, with input from and review by members of the Science/Technology Team, are rewriting (actually, almost writing from scratch).
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