Library Team Meeting Minutes
November 20, 2007
4 PM – 5 PM, Library 224
Chair: Heather Walsh-Haney
Members Present: Dahai Guo, Julie Hammerling, Kathleen Miller, Rachel Cooke, Mark
Simpson, Marco Quiroga
Members absent: Heather Walsh-Haney, Joseph Kakareka
Meeting Minutes: Rachel Cooke
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Approval of September 2007 Minutes
o Minutes were approved
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Confirm Spring meeting dates (all)
o Tuesday, January 29, 3-4
o Tuesday, March 25, 3-4
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07-08 Goals for the Library Team (Heather/All)
o Please email your ideas for team goals to Rachel and Heather by December 14.
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Library Grants (Heather)
o This item will be tabled until the next meeting. Heather and Becky Donlan (Assistant
Library Director/Collections Manager) are planning to apply for grants to digitize a
forensic collection (the Robert Maples collection) in the archives.
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Director’s Report (Kathy)
o Quarterly Report, July-September 2007: Kathy distributed a 3-page summary of
library activities for this quarter. Some highlights include:
 Library visits are up 55% (100,422 door count).
 Reference questions are up 229% (3,140 questions). Part of this increase is
due to the re-location of the reference desk to the 1st floor (it was temporarily
on the 3rd floor during the renovation last year).
 There is a new “library resources” quick search in Angel. Instructors can
activate this for their course page.
 The library website has been redesigned
 The library now has 319 databases, which provide access to 35,806 unique
titles.
 The budget pools (categories) were reviewed. There is some flexibility in the
budget. For example, left over funds for travel, could be moved into another
category.
 Plans for the 2nd quarter include: updating tutorials, plans for a long-term
library storage facility. The team had a discussion about long-term storage,
digitization, and avoiding duplication of digitization efforts. The library will
need the 4th floor library space for expansion in the near future.
o
Staffing Updates
 We are recruiting 2 new staff positions. One will be a Public Services
Librarian. The other one is a customer service LTA (Library Technical
Assistant).
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Information literacy assessment results (Kathy)
o This assessment is a nationally recognized tool that has been tested for reliability and
validity. It measures students’ skill levels in various information literacy activities:
creating a web page, opening/organizing email, downloading audio or video files, and
finding information via the internet and scholarly databases, etc.
o 79 FGCU students enrolled in Colloquium took the assessment. Their mean score was
550, which is the national average.
o Barb Stites, Assistant Library Director for Public Services will be serving on a national
task force to review information proficiencies for Librarians and Information Literacy
Coordinators
o The assessment was administered in collaboration with the General Education Team
since many of the competencies it measures are related to Gen. Ed. learning objectives
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New Resources/Services (Rachel)
o Library Workshops are now offered in the Information Literacy Lab (Library Room
211 West). Anyone can attend (students, faculty, staff, and the public). Attendees
should sign up under the “Register for a Workshop” link on the library homepage.
o So far attendance has been low—about 2-4 attendees per workshop. This wasn’t
surprising considering that this is a relatively new service we are offering, and it will
take time to market and advertise. Most attendees are either faculty or staff. Marco
recommended that we send 5x7 copies of the advertisement to student government, and
they could distribute it to different groups.
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Future Items
o Library team goals
o Grants for the library (Heather)?
o Please email any agenda items to Rachel and Heather.
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Next Meeting
The next Library Team meeting will be Tuesday, January 29, 3-4.