Business Meeting Minutes: May 19, 2017

ACRL MD

Meeting Agenda

May 19, 2017

Present: Sara Arnold Garza, Natalie Burclaff, Sean Hogan, Claire Holmes, Danielle Whren Johnson, Mike Kiel, Kim Miller

MLA/DLA conference updates

• New conference location at Cambridge, MD Hyatt was very well received
• 730 attendees
• ACRL-MD’s four programs were well attended and received positive feedback.
  • Preconference session: Improving Communication Through Improv (Bridget Cavaiola – Teaching Artist)
  • Research to Writing: Helping Students Integrate Sources into a Research Project (Robert Miller- UMUC R&I Librarian, Sandie Friedman – Director, University GWU Writing Program)
  • Information Literacy as Smuggled Cargo: Embedding Learning Outcomes Using Curriculum Mapping (Natalie Burclaff – UB Head of Information Literacy Initiatives, Kristin Conlin – UB R&I Librarian)
  • Collaborating for Course Correction: Partnering to Help Students Understand Ethical Use (Cameron Caswell – AACC Reference Librarian, Jessica Rabin – AACC English faculty)

Summer Plans:

Former & Current Leaders’ Meeting: June 7, 10am-noon @Towson’s Cook Library

• Informal gathering of previous officers
• Take stock of current organizational context
• Goal to discuss and articulate consensus of ACRL-MD values & goals for future
• Discuss meeting calendar 

ACRL-MD Chapter Open Forum

• July 28, 9am-noon, JHU, Homewood Campus, Levering Hall
• We will try to provide a virtual meeting option (Facebook live or Skype?)

GOALS:

• Network with regional academic librarians
• Share priorities and concerns in the areas of professional development and engagement
• Shape our local ACRL chapter to meet our needs as professionals
• Provide opportunities to get involved with professional organization and leadership in Maryland
• Discuss meeting calendar, try to avoid obvious conflicts with other like organizations

New business:

Idea: Natalie suggested looking into customized ACRL-MD stationery 

ACRL-MD CRAB column?

• Mike Kiel started a google doc to write a summary of ACRL conf, Claire and Sean collaborators so far, but others welcome. June 5 deadline for summer CRAB
  • Please email Mike if you want to collaborate on the google doc: skiel@ubalt.edu
• Idea: put out a call for authors and a deadline schedule for a recurring ACRL-MD CRAB column (9/5/17 is fall issue deadline) 

Fall meeting ideas, potential collaborators

• Sara AG inquired of MLA PDP: if collaborating with another organization for a program, it is possible for marketing and registration to be done separately
• OER program topic discussed, w/ ACRL-DVC
• ACRL Speakers Bureau? Lauren Pressley, ACRL president-elect
• Need to submit a PDP program proposal by Aug/Sept for a Nov/Dec program 

Journal Club

• Claire will send thank-you notes to all 2016-17 journal club facilitators
• Need to plan 2017-2018 facilitators, call usually goes out in early fall
• Including article authors was a bonus according to anecdotal feedback from participants
  • Robert could do informal survey of authors who participated?

Next meetings:

• June 16 (w/Journal Club), July 28 (open Forum)
• Robert will submit a schedule in early fall for 2017-18 ACRL-MD business meetings, to secure Blackboard Collaborate “space”