Information Literacy Subcommittee Minutes

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CVL Information Literacy Subcommittee Meeting
March 5, 1999
Frankfort, KY

Present: Hannelore Rader, chair, Janet Brewer, Steve Stone, Jill Buckland, Tom Kmetz, Haiwang Yuan, Edith Hansen, Luann Hardy, Rebecca Turner, Emily Werrell and guest Chad Kearsley.

Announcements

Hannelore, who is on the CVL Faculty Development Group, drew the committee's attention to the Intellectual Property Conference at UK's Young Library, April 13. The group will also sponsor a workgroup in Louisville "Change and Beyond" with 3-400 nominated participants. Members of this committee may be nominated if they contact Hannelore. The group will develop a Faculty Development Plan. Hannelore also recommended the upcoming ALA program "How to do Reference in an electronic environment."

Introductions included Collegis representative Chad Kearsley, who attended to introduce the committee to using Collegis software for the Information Literacy Modules. Contact him if you have problems accessing the Collegis pages: [email protected]

Agenda items decided:

the committee decided we do need an introduction to the set of modules - Hannelore will draft this.
public librarians and college and school library staff will give help to users who need it with information literacy, and when using the modules - this group will work on a plan to train those helpers.

Session on Collegis

One question concerned availability of the training modules. The committee requested that they not be password or otherwise protected. That anyone could have access. It looks as if Collegis can do that.

The group looked at how to decide on the components of the pages.

Questions

we must decide whether to use the third person (refer to "you do this" "you will find..") or to keep it impersonal
we must decide on a style sheet for fonts, sizing and other items of uniformity
do we want to launch into another site or not? We may lose the user if we're not careful. Collegis can put hotlink in a separate, size-controlled window to minimize this problem.
copyright - it was decided not to copyright the modules since this conflicts with the committee's open access policy. Include a statement in the footer: "You are free to use this � if you acknowledge �"
should modules be separately accessible - yes: instructor can link to any one or all.

Advice from Chad

Do not use underlining as this may be confused with a link.
Add a footer to each page
Include a report of use - not seen by user. (Collegis do?)
Include more metacontext in some pages (explanation of what you're going to do).
Use the CVL forum for exchanging ideas.

Chad will build the module boxes and we will fill in the information. These are the boxes decided upon:

Overview - goals, pre-test (optional), introduction
Lesson - the meat of the subject - what we are explaining
Example - links, graphics, illustrations, elaborations
Activity - exercise, multiple choices, fill in blanks - ungraded, use for practice
Glossary - explaining terms
Quiz - one or 2 questions for each module

We don't have to use any box if not applicable. Everyone in the group will have instructor-level access to the modules on Collegis.

Some final decisions

Luann will do the glossary - send items to her to compile Search engines will go in with advanced searching techniques (Jill with Edith and Rebecca). We need a graphical designer with Web experience to give us ideas for logo, colors, etc. Collegis has a designer who may do this.

Chad will make Collegis modules for us before 3/26. He may be called for advice 919-376-3415, email: see above. We can put quiz questions in to Chad ready for Collegis to make effective.

Next proposed meeting Friday, 3/26 at Frankfort, 1:00-4:00.

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