Information Literacy Work GroupMinutes

Thursday, Feb. 15 is Teri Weil's last day, Tammi Clemens is also leaving the same day.

RFP for Academic Tutorial:
Milton Skeen joined us to talk about the RFP process, and to talk about the fact that the platform could be changing.

Janet Brewer and Susan Brown were going to work on the RFP for the new, academic verson of the tutorial.

The academic version should reflect requirements from previous minutes: quizzes and tests and assessment, both for feedback to the learner, and the instructor. The two levels would be 1) a self-test quiz and 2) administered in a local setting essay.

As part of the RFP, the consultant would create an assesment of student learning.

The RFP would require the assesment to tie-in to the student platform.

Creating a tutorial for kids workgroup
The KYVL for Kids Work Group is working on a tutorial for Kids.
1st - 5th grades (aimed at 2nd - 3rd graders)
very graphic intensive
simple text
should be released this summer

Big 6 (3 steps) plan * do * review

The three tutorials:
Kids P-5?8?
General 5?8?-12? - Random Access Information
Academic 13-? - Linear access - more appropriate to class work

Things for the RFP to rework the Academic Tutorial:
Audience is traditional on-campus, the traditional off-campus (18-22 through KYVL) and non-traditional on- or off-campus
No password should be required: it should be globally useable.
If possible, it would be nice to have "live searches" in the tutorial.

Additional Items:
The new KYVL reference person ideally will be a training person, and create instructional programming.

We should make librarian/teacher's guides. For teachers with lesson plans. How to use databases sits on top of how to do research.

Discussion of the future chair.

Presentation of the portfolio to Emily.

Brainstorming of future possible projects:

Very basics - how does a library work

Possible audiences: k-12 teachers (possibly paired with) school librarians public librarians (possibly paired with) trustees/city officials/businesspeople tecnhical college librarians community college librarians

KDE sponsors professional development days for teachers.

There are 12 public library regions - hit all the regions with a train-the-trainers.

Should we try to reach everybody on staff, or just reference?

Could teach at KLA (wouldn't hit everyone, but some)

Do a series of 18 sessions in the fall. Develop a certificate program.

Training has already been done by KYVL. What was the content? It is all available on the web site. Focused on DB usage. 2 hours on WebZ, 1 hour on EBSCO, 1 hour on First Search.

Create a video for general public. 10-15 minutes. Could air on cable TV channels, use the ALA "@ the library" tag.

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