CLUE Meeting Minutes - May 31, 2000 10:30am - noon
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1. EDCP 108-O/UNIV 101 Working Group Progress Report The EDCP 108 Working Group (Trudi, Maggie, Judy Markowitz, Clare Sebok, Peter Armstrong, Karen Fishman, Paula Hayes, Paula Greenwell) is meeting weekly and making good progress. However, it is a tough assignment, as the group is designing a new way of teaching that requires out-of-the-box thinking and different approaches. 2. Update on labs Interior Metals removed the old soft-walled units and installed new tables in McKeldin 4133. ITD added 4 new computers to the 21 computers in this lab. They also ordered and installed more LINK software and cabling. Facilities encouraged Interiors Metals staff and university electricians to get the work done in time, and ITD did a great job of setting up the machines, working against the clock to have all the equipment fully functioning by May 30, when 25 USIA librarians were to use this lab for training over 3 days. (Postscript: ITD also did a superb job in troubleshooting technical problems during the USIA visit). Four more computers for McKeldin 2109 will be ordered in early June. When they arrive they will bring the total to 16 computers (15 students + 1 instructor). Also, two new computer long tables have been ordered for the four computers. The pay-for-print station currently in 2109 will be moved to room 4133 over the summer and will be situated in 4133 close to the doorway between the two instruction rooms. Printing will be free for library instruction purposes. The workstations in 2109 will be connected to the GOV DOCS pay-for-print station. At the last SPIT meeting, Trudi proposed building a new library instruction lab on the ground floor of Hornbake, to be shared by Special Collections, EPSL, Chemistry, Nonprint Media and McKeldin. This is a long-range proposal, with no plans or commitments made yet. 3. Survey of Subject Specialists about Subject-Specific Instruction. Many have been turned in. Trudi sent an e-mail reminder to subject specialist librarians on May 19th, mentioning once again that the deadline in Friday, June 2nd. 4. New CLUE Web Page (handout) A new Web page has been developed for the committee, at: www.lib.umd.edu/UMCP/UES/clue.html. The page details the CLUE members, the committee's charge and will soon provide meeting minutes. 5. Professional Writing Classes Professional Writing faculty were given a deadline of June 2nd to request library instruction for the summer. So far, requests to teach four classes have been received. 6. Interactive Web Tutorial. Progress Report. The Beyond the Basics Working Group (January 2000) created the new script for the spring classes and also created the content for the Basics In Library Research Web page (www.lib.umd.edu/UES/basics.html). It is the content of this page that will be used to construct the interactive tutorial in modular form. Maggie and Trudi are working on creating it and will call back the Beyond the Basics Working Group to critique it later this summer. It is hoped to have some modules ready by September 1st. There was a discussion about how labor intensive it is in creating as a Web tutorial. Trudi and Alan Rough are researching the purchase of courseware software. 7. Preliminary Statistics for 1999-2000 (5 handouts) CLUE examined in some detail the preliminary instruction statistics for the 1999-00 fiscal year. The group discussed "What conclusions can we draw - what should be included in the UES annual report?" Also "What changes, if any, do these data suggest for the coming year?" "Is there a shift in the number and type of questions being asked at the Information Desks due to the type of information imparted in our instruction classes?" Comparing the 1999-00 numbers with 1998-99 showed that fewer UES programmed classes were held in 1999-00. However, attendance was just as strong as the previous year (1998: 2185 students in 211 classes vs. 1999: 2008 students in 170 classes). Bob Kackley raised the issue about software to track the number of students using the interactive tutorial. We will also want to know "What kind of learning is going on when using interactive tutorials?" We do not want to trivialize the value and complexity of what we teach by reducing library research into "3 easy steps." Final statistics from the "pinksheets" that document the number of faculty requested classes, tours, orientations per month, were not yet available, but Maggie estimated that the figures would be up from last year. These data will be available later in the summer. Figures for the faculty/graduate student seminars were up from last year. For summer '99 and winterterm '00, seminars were offered for the first time. Attendance was very high. Seventy-seven different UM campus departments, schools, institutes were represented by attendees at the seminars. Beyond the Basics walk-in classes will no longer be offered. Beyond the Basics will be offered on a request basis only and will be taught by volunteers. Professional Writing faculty will also have the option to use the Web tutorial if they wish. As already decided by CLUE, walk-in VICTORWeb classes also will no longer be offered. Thus, the Libraries will offer virtually no walk-in classes (both GIS and faculty seminars require advance sign-up). All instruction will be conducted only on request, connected with a particular course, or to serve a particular group. Alternatively, students may use tutorials and guides on the Web. The survey results of the fall '99 ENGL 101 T.A.s and the spring '00 ENGL 101 students were not ready. They will be covered at next meeting. Tentative summer meeting schedule: ***Please e-mail Trudi if you cannot attend any of these times:
Wed. June 21, 10:30am-noon
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