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”
