Meeting Reports

LIBRARY PROFESSIONAL STAFF MEETING

November 10, 2008, 9:15 a.m., Hovde

Present: Chris, Andi, Ryan, John, Jane, Lindy, Germano, Rebecca, Rachel.

Continued discussion from last week pertaining to internship questions. Will revisit this again at a later meeting.

Ryan has done more work on the tutorial on the Washington site. This works well for us. Will go ahead with this model.

The subcommittee has been working on a mission statement draft. Jane gave out copies of this draft.

Martin Dougiamas, founder of Moodle (KATIE) spoke this morning from Perth, Australia with 30 participants from NITLE scattered around the globe via MIV (Multi-point Interactive Video-Conferencing). The show was “stunning” with all parties seriously engaged and even more committed to their choice of Moodle for a VLE (Virtual Learning Environment).

LIBRARY PROFESSIONAL STAFF MEETING

November 3, 2008, 9:15 .am., Hovde

Present: Chris, Andi, Ryan, John, Jane, Lindy, Germano, Rebecca.

Jane sent in the spreadsheets on staffing for 2009-2010. Received word that everything looked fine.

Andi gave an update on the J-term faculty development opportunities. Rebecca volunteered to be in charge. She will make the necessary contacts.

Jane led the discussion on reviewing internship questions.

Present: Matt H, Matt B, Lynnette, Bob E, Rebecca, Ryan, Larry, Todd, Diane

• Projects – Update http://lis.luther.edu/projects prior to Wednesday’s LIS General.

• Mott and Borlaug Desktops – These workstations received a new image with Office 2007 and XP recently and they both now have 512 MB memory. Discussed the performance of these workstations and when they should receive new hardware. Also reviewed the need for new cables in Valders 117.

The theme for this year’s EDUCAUSE 2008 Annual Conference is “Interaction, Ideas, Inspiration”

Tuesday I attended an all-day pre-conference session titled, “Balanced Leadership: The Role of Behavior Styles and Emotional Intelligence”. It was no surprise that we began with a behavior style profile to learn more about ourselves and how we relate to others. We moved on to communication and I found it interesting that 38% of communication is tone – I found it interesting mainly because of the addition to the communication plan that focused on tone.

LIS will be administering the MISO Survey in Spring 2009. Between now and early December, we will be working to review the surveys from Spring 2007 when we last administered the survey to the Luther community and create the survey for the upcoming spring. As you may recall, there are three versions of the survey – one for faculty, one for students, and another for staff.

At Monday’s MISO 2008 Symposium in Orlando, we discussed trends found from the 2005-2008 MISO Survey data, focusing on the data from the 10 institutions who have administered the survey twice.

LIBRARY PROFESSIONAL STAFF MEETING

October 27, 2008, 9:15 a.m., Hovde

Present: Andi, Ryan, John, Jane, Lindy, Germano, Rebecca, Rachel.

Jane led discussion on staffing for 2009-2010. Needs to be submitted to the Dean’s Office by October 31.

Andi told of a J-term faculty development opportunity that the librarians could offer. Would be three 90-minute sessions.

Andi gave out a handout regarding a proposal for LIST internships and discussion followed on internships 380 and 381 catalog language. Would like this resolved this semester.

I was in New York the past few days for the biennial meeting of the Lutheran Historical Conference. Attended by historians, theologians and archivists primarily from Lutheran institutions, we heard many excellent papers. I presented my research on Hanna and Marie Larsen, two of Laur. Larsen’s daughters who were missionaries to Zululand (South Africa) in the 1890s.

LIBRARY PROFESSIONAL STAFF MEETING

October 13, 2008, 9:15 a.m., Hovde

Present: Chris, Andi, Ryan, John, Jane, Lindy, Germano, Rebecca.

All the librarians reported on reactions to the new Library Research website. Have received favorable results.

Andi gave an update on the Paideia I Open Unit and the Spring Research Paper Unit. Tentative date for the spring paper is March 20. Andi then led a discussion on the goals for research.

Germano presented CHOICE reference titles.

Present: Matt H, Jim, Lynnette, Bob E, Ryan, Rebecca, Larry, Diane

Technology Day – Wed, October 8th is an in-service day for teachers at the Decorah Middle School. Erin Zidlicky from the Education Department and Diane will be helping out by leading a few sessions. Topics for the afternoon include PowerGrade, Podcasting, Equation Editor, Excel, Classroom Performance System, iWeb, Electronic Portfolios, Digital Photography, Comic Life and Technopalooza 2.

GusDay 2009 – Augsburg will be the host for GusDay 2009 and it will most likely be held in the first half of January.