Minutes of VIVA Outreach Committee, November 20, 2000
Present: Ralph Alberico (chair), Jack Bales, Patricia Butler, Patricia Hardesty, and Berna Heyman.
I. Announcements
Ralph announced that Ginger Young from Randolph-Macon College has been named as a replacement for Sharon Goad who resigned from the committee due to illness.
II. Minutes
The minutes from the last meeting were approved.
III. Outreach Web Gateway
The committee reviewed the three gateway levels outlined at the October meeting: faculty and students, decision-makers, and the VIVA community.Jack Bales suggested adding the online journal locator to the links for faculty and students.Berna Heyman recommended changing "Announcements" to "New Resources."Ralph renamed "Publicity and Promotion" to "VIVA in the News." A new term for "testimonials" is also needed.
Ralph distributed a draft of the gateway section targeted to the VIVA community of member libraries. Since this information is extensive, Ralph suggested dividing this section into:
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Policies guidelines and procedures
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Facts and figures
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Collection information for members
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Directories and VIVA organizational structure
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Technical information for members
The committee agreed to link to the VLA Legislative Action Center web page rather than undertaking the maintenance of a similar web page for VIVA members. <
Ralph will share the committee's recommendations with Kathy Perry and with John Duke, who is creating a dynamic database for the VIVA web page, before Patricia Hardesty does any further organization of this information.
IV. Statewide Forum on Information Literacy
The committee outlined a proposed program for a statewide forum in late May at the University of Virginia for instruction and public service librarians and interested college faculty.Berna mentioned that William and Mary could provide meeting rooms at no expense if facilities are not available at UVA.
Possible keynote speakers/institutions with a national reputation on information literacy include:
- Susan Curzon, California State University
- Beth Dupuis, University of Texas System
- Lynn Cameron, James Madison University
- Cerise Oberman, ACRL - Institute for Information Literacy
- Betsy Wilson, University of Washington
- someone from Ulster Community College, SUNY Connect
- Patricia Senn Breivik, San Jose State Universityv
- Craig Gibson, George Mason University
- Anne Lipow
- Susan White
- someone from University of Tennessee - Chattanooga
Proposed Forum Program
VIVAAcross the Curriculum
Purpose:
- To explore ways in which academic libraries in Virginia can collaborate to promote information literacy and the use of VIVA resources across the Commonwealth
- To bring members of the VIVA instructional community together to share ideas, instructional best practices and learning resources
- To develop strategies for using commonly available VIVA collections to support instruction
- To discuss possible pilot projects using VIVA resources as the basis for raising information literacy levels.
9:30-10:00 Coffee and registration
10:00-10:45 Selected VIVA participants share details on their programs
11:00-12:00 Address by a keynote speaker with a national reputation on information literacy
12:00-1:00 Lunch
1:00-1:45 Breakout sessions facilitated by the morning presenters.
2:00-2:30 Reports from the groups on possible collaborative projects and a wrap-up of the day's activities.
At the next VIVA steering committee meeting, Ralph will find out about funding for the forum and support of collaborative projects.
New Business
There was no new business so the meeting was adjourned.
Respectfully submitted,
Patricia M. Butler