ACRL MD Business Meeting
January 11, 2013 at 9:30am
Minutes
Present: Alison, Katy, Joanna, Sara, Natalie, Danielle, David and Mark
Note: Blackboard not working via the web link, but it was working via phone (although phone and website not linked up). This turned it into a phone conference rather than a Blackboard Collaborate Room.
Conference Updates (Joanna)
- Speakers: ACRL MD has 8 programs, one pre-conference and one jointly sponsored:
- Wed morning preconference: Temple librarians on qualitative studies
- Thurs 9am: UB Natalie + Catherine from UB on planning social media
- Thurs 10am: 1. Towson Sarah+ Kim handheld devices 2. Library director on online info literacy education for grad schools
- Thurs 2pm: 1. AACC Brandi and LND Julie on designing assessment procedures 2. Salisbury Mu, Michael and Melissa on taming copyright
- Thurs: Metrics
- Fri 9:15: Loyola and UMUC group on teaching/customizing discovery services/
- Fri: Lib Director from Naval Academy – data and using data (collecting and reporting)
- Co-sponosoring a program Lucy and Michael from UB data visualization
- Action item: Alison and Natalie will coordinate scheduling blog posts about each program and one about happy hour.
- Start posts after registration opens
- Action item: Joanna will send presenter pictures to use
- Happy Hour 7-9pm on Wednesday at Liquid Assets
- Action item: Natalie will call them soon
- INFORMAL (use the back table from last time)
- ACRL has money for appetizers
- Representative for MLA Orientation
- Joanna volunteered for ACRL MD
Status report on the Instruction Observation Network (Alison)
- 14 volunteers to be observed, only 7 survey responses, only 1/7 had instruction observation
- Action item: Promote it for spring now: at journal club and then Alison will post to marylib/social media next week
ALA mid-winter chapters council meeting
- Danielle is official chair
Journal Club (David)
- Feedback has been positive
- Next one: Jan. 18th
- Action item: Natalie will announce reading selections and that it will be a phone only session!
- End of the year – call for other journal club facilitators
Next Happy Hour
- Combine ACRL Webinars with Happy Hour (We have until Oct. to use both)
- Plan host webinar, followed by discussion, followed by social gathering
- Friday, March 22 Topic: creating meaningful liaison connections
- Location: Frederick or Westminster
- Action items: Danielle will contact McDaniel’s for hosting the webinar; Mark will find happy hour location
- Action item: David will email to find more info on upcoming webinar, and we will reevaluate whether to wait for June or have second webinar March 5th
- Action item: David will talk to Margaret about cost structure and filling out a program approval form
- Free for MLA members and small fee for non-MLA members ($15), some (or all) of which we can put into snacks
Scholarly Roadshow (David w/discussion) Spring/Summer Program
- http://www.ala.org/acrl/issues/scholcomm/roadshow
- application: https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/GLXK766 Due Feb. 5
- Issues:
- Need a institution to host
- Need a back up plan in case our application is not accepted
- Action item: David will talk to Margaret about making the program not-for-profit
- Action item: David will send a follow up email to continue the conversation to…
- Find candidates to host
- What we’ll do after the workshop to continue the scholarly comm. initiatives in Maryland
- Dates: 2 Fridays in June, 8am-5pm, one non-Friday date
Next meeting: Discuss back-up plan for spring/summer program
Official end time 11:01am
