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Members present: Haiwang Yuan, Gail Elbers, Rob Withers, Alexius
Smith Mack,
Randall S. Halverson (guest)
The committee reviewed and finalized the bibliography to be submitted to the newsletter committee for publication. Discussed tasks including software review and hardware bibliography. Discussed changing the committee’s name from Computer Application Committee to Information Technology Committee to reflect technology represented by the Internet and the World Wide Web. Decided to recommend the name change to the Steering Committee.
Members Present: Anne Houston, Cynthia Akers (2001 Chair), Stephanie Michel, Mary Graves, Linda Goff, Corlis Lee, Carolina Menendez, Mimi Pappas
The committee reviewed evaluations from this year's program, discussed theme and possible speakers for next year, and brainstormed titles for next year. Decided to recommend to the Steering Committee the program idea: "Partnerships for Instruction,” on academic librarians partnering for instruction with school librarians, school with public, academic with public, etc.
Members Present: Gale Burrows, Kari Lucas, Elizabeth Margutti, Mark Stepanovich (guest)
Discussed potential officers; will use list of past three years of LIRT committee chairs and members to create excel file so that names can be readily compiled. Decided to recommend to the Steering Committee that once this file is created, the vice president should maintain it from the roster of committee members, then give a copy to the Elections Committee.
Members Present: David Ward, Sharon Stewart, Kwasi Sarkodie-Mensah, Trish Stevenson, Angela Dunnington.
Committee members confirmed their choices of instruction-related meetings
to attend. Summaries will be
forwarded to Ed for the Newsletter. Trish Stevenson collected LIRT
materials to present at the NMRT Orientation.
Members Present: Linda Sammataro, Michael Poma, Jennalyn Tellman, Barbara Pilvin, Maggie Zarnosky
Discussed committee membership, planning and goal evaluation forms, the need to distribute the revised goals, and the 2004 retreat. Also brainstormed ideas for the 25th anniversary. Recommendations to the Steering Committee: 1) Distribute revised goals to committee chairs 2) This committee needs Steering's input for the retreat: what would Steering like to get out of the retreat?
Members present: Susan Clark, Jana Ronan, Carol Carson Schuetz,
David Sherwood
Members absent: Nicole Auer, Brittney Chenault, Patricia Mileham,
John Riddle, Shawn Thomas, Deleyne Wentz, Ann Viles
The committee determined the content of the September 2000 issue of the newsletter, which will be edited cooperatively. Carol Carson Schuetz will be the new chair for 2000-2001, and will be the editor starting with the December 2000 issue. In addition, the group decided to mount tips for writing articles on the LIRT News website.
Members also made plans for a special issue of LIRT News to celebrate
the 25th anniversary, featuring an article about the history of LIRT, a
timeline to accompany the article, and reprints of the best past articles
(which will be made available exclusively in the Web edition.)
The newsletter will also run "teaser boxes" with LIRT facts, etc. in the
issues leading up to
the anniversary.
Members Present: Elizabeth Margutti, Kari Lucas, Diana Shonrock (guest),
Valerie Feinman (guest)
Gale announced that the LIRT manual has been converted to html format
and will be posted after Annual Conference for review by Steering. Concern
was expressed for the potential loss of a sense of LIRT as a whole community
and of a vision for how the various committees work together to further
the goals of LIRT. The committee will take a recommendation to the Executive
Board focused on clarifying and strengthening the roles of the Steering
Committee and the Executive Board. Recommendations to the Executive Board:
meeting times for Steering and Executive need to be reconsidered. 1) find
another time for meetings now scheduled at 8:00 p.m. 2) first Executive
meeting should be before All Committees on Saturday 3) have a general membership
meeting at the beginning of All Committees meeting on Saturday morning
4) orientation for officers and chairs should be scheduled at 11:00 a.m.
on Saturday, after All Committees meeting.
Members Present: Pixey Mosley, Doreen Harwood, Tracy Hull, Marcia King-Blandford, Julienne Wood, Marilyn Whitmore (guest), Donna Kanapes (incoming to committee)
Discussion: BITES with LIRT had normal signup patterns (less on Monday). Had difficulties with the booth, no volunteers to set up and staff. Next year, will not depend on LIRT Newsletter ad, but will also post on LIRT-L and web site. LIRT had representation at two NMRT functions. Recommendations to the Steering Committee: need more members on the committee-- it requires approximately 10 people to complete all activities effectively. Also need more membership participation in activities such as booth and BITES. Recommendation to the Executive Board: send LIRT promotion to relevant listservs beyond BI-L, as was done two years ago.
Members Present: John Spencer, Mary Casner, Jim Kapoun, Kelley Lawton
(recorder), Patience Simmonds
Rose Clawson (guest)
Patience was nominated to be chair for one more year. Final discussion of the Publications Project: 1) Publicize the LIRT Publications Project 2) Patience will send a copy of the publications guidelines to members to examine, update and revise 3) Continue work on putting together a list of LIRT publications for the 25th anniversary. Recommendation to the Steering Committee: this committee would like help from Steering in identifying LIRT publications.
Members present: Kristin Strohmeyer, Susan Beck, Linda Colding,
Joan Ruelle, Esteban Valdez, Craolyn Frenger, Deborah Bernnard,
Marta Davis, Rachel Fenske, Nerea LLamas, Gina Persichini
Members Absent: Claudia Rebazza, Kathy Kie, Gail Morris, Julia
Nims
Incoming Chair for 2000-01 is Carolyn Frenger from George Washington University.
The committee confirmed a proposed theme for the 25th Anniversary, "From Chalkboard to Electronics: Instruction Over 25 years." The committee discussed the idea of producing a ruler for the anniversary. One side would be a ruler, the other would have a timeline for the past 25 years, highlighting milestones in instruction.
A current project of the committee is to design a series of brochures with tips/guidelines for developing an instruction program for distance education from the ground up.
The committee's website with library instruction tutorials has been updated. All links have been checked and information will be sent to Billie Peterson to update the website.
LIRT News, September 2000. Volume 23, number 1.
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