[infolit] Info Lit Meeting Minutes

Tue Oct 5 15:25:24 EDT 2004

TBLC Information Literacy SIG Meeting October 1, 2004

TBLC 9 am - 12 pm

Attending:  

Maryellen Allen     USF Tampa

Nancy Allen           New College & USF Sarasota-Manatee

Susan Ariew           USF Library School

Judy Born              Manatee Community College

Jacqueline Cress    Hillsborough Community College - Dale Mabry  

Ginny Cunningham   USF Tampa

Mark Dibble          USF Tampa

Wendy Foley          Hillsborough Community College - Brandon

Ilene Frank            USF Library School

Meg Hawkins          Manatee Community College

Susan Silver          USF Tampa

Drew Smith            USF Library School

Karen Wilber         TBLC

Next meeting January 28, 2005 at TBLC

Apply Now for Immersion '05 scheduled for Eckerd College, St. Petersburg
July 29 - August 3 2005.  Application deadline December 6, 2004.

We'd like to establish a subcommittee of USF & community college
librarians to develop shared freshman competencies and basic upper level
skills for transfer students.  Anyone interested in working on this
project should contact Judy Born, bornj at mccfl.edu. 

Everyone shared information about information literacy assessment.  USF
Tampa is participating in SAILS: Project for the standardized assessment
of information literacy skills.

http://sails.lms.kent.eduindex.php <http://sails.lms.kent.eduindex.php/>

This is the 3rd and possibly final year of this grant project. Hopefully
either Kent State or ARL will continue this program.

2002/3 - 2 schools

2003/4 - 20 schools

2004/5 - 80 schools (including USF, Valencia & Palm Beach Community
Colleges)

Sails expands the ACRL Information Literacy Skills to 12 skill sets, 30
minute, 45 questions test.  Schools use it either as a diagnostic tool
at the beginning of the semester or as an exit competency test.

USF will administer it to their LIS 2005 (3 credit class) students in
November 2004.  In January 2005 they will administer it at the beginning
of the semester as a baseline and diagnostic tool.  They'll receive the
results at ALA Chicago.

We discussed ways to streamline the One-Shot Instruction session:

*	Use pre-tests to eliminate some topics from presentation
*	Ask for show of hands for topics, adjust presentation
accordingly
*	Provide online tutorials for info the majority of students
already know

Discussed pros/cons of using Landmark's citation machine, which includes
both MLA & APA citation styles.

www.landmark-project.com/citation_machine/cm.php

Susan Ariew joined the USF Library School faculty this fall, and she
shared information about:

*	"Retros"-interview students & professor in their classroom at
the end of the semester:  what do you remember about the library
session?  What problems did you have with your research?  Was the timing
good?
*	Information Skills Tutorial http:info-skills.lib.vt.edu
<http://www.info-skills.lib.vt.edu/> 

Drew-new moderator for ALA's Information Literacy Listserv.

He's teaching several web page courses this semester.

Recommends citation stamp and post-it pad from this company:

www.funstuffforgenealogist.com <http://www.funstuffforgenealogist.com/> 

Ilene is teaching a 1-credit, online 8 week course in Information
Literacy for UMUC (University of Maryland-University College) as an
adjunct.  UMUC requires all students to take this course.  There are up
to 100 students registered in each section.  For more information about
the course:  Kelley, K. B., et. al. "Library instruction for the next
millennium: two Web-based courses to teach distance students information
literacy."  Journal of Library Administration v. 32 no. 1/2 (2001) p.
281-94.

Nancy Allen - "My Librarian" serving about 40 students

Ginny & Susan - RoboDemo project near completion.  Several librarians
prepared tutorials, many will be used with the Florida Electronic
Library.  Several RoboDemo projects are currently available for classes.
Two classes in the School of Social Work are linking to the Federal
Register tutorial via Blackboard.   

http://www.lib.usf.edu/ref/gcunning/fedreg.htm

Wendy - Teaches LIS1004 (1 credit) in person, 20 students.  

Jackie-attended Immersion this year, HCC has an Info Lit Committee.

Maryellen - teaching a DL section of LIS 2005 (SLIS) 

Mark has accepted a new position as Instruction Coordinator at Texas
Lutheran University.  

Meg & Judy - MCC determined competency skills for ENC1101 students and
used Flashlight to develop an online test.   

This was a great meeting-informative and energizing.  We all agreed to
post more information to the TBLC Listserv; we don't need to wait till
the next meeting to share ideas and information.  To post a message send
an email to:

infolit at lists.tblc.org.   Hope you'll be able to join us for the January
28, 2005 meeting at TBLC.    

<http://www.umuc.edu/>  

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