Guest: E. Dupuis
Welcome New Members
K. Wayne welcomed the following new members: Alex Warren, Head, Morrison
Library, Bruce Williams, East Asian Library, and Elizabeth Dupuis, Head of
Instructional Services.
1. Announcements:
A. Warren announced that the Fall poetry reading season in the Morrison
Library will begin on Thursday September 5th. Posters for the event will
be distributed by mid to late August.
K. Wayne informed the Council that the library-wide E-Journals List Task
Force has been formed. Representatives from the A&H Council are Gary
Handman and Steve Mendosa. Handman will chair the task force.
S. Koskinen announced that the Environmental Design Library moved back to
its new facilities at 210 Wurster Hall on the 1st of August. Photographs of
the new library are available at:
http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/ENVI/Seismic.html.
M. Erviti invited PSC members to view the exhibit being mounted in Doe
Library's Bernice Layne Brown Gallery showcasing rare items from the Music
Library. The exhibit marks the celebration of the Annual Conference of the
International Association of Music Libraries to take place on Campus from
the 4th to the 9th of August.
I. Abalos announced that the new reference desk will open to the public on
Wednesday August 14th.
2. Instructional Services Doe/Moffitt:
Elizabeth Dupuis, The Library's new Head of Instructional
Services, introduced herself to A&H Council members. She gave a summary of
her responsibilities and background, and presented her vision for
instructional services. In this position she functions as the Head of the
Teaching Library, the Media Resources Center, and Graphic Services. She
also supports the instructional activities of selectors. She clarified that
her work focuses on both our undergraduate and graduate programs.
She is a member of the recently created Council of Academic Partners. This
is a group charged by Christina Maslach, Vice Provost for Undergraduate
Education, to serve as an advisory body to her and Provost Gray on ways to
encourage and support innovation in teaching and learning on campus.
E. Dupuis informed the Council that she will be working on the
implementation of the recently awarded Mellon 'Library/Faculty Fellows for
Undergraduate Research' grant. This grant was awarded to The Library in
partnership with the Office of the Vice Provost for Undergraduate
Education, and the Undergraduate Division of the College of Letters &
Sciences. The goal of the grant is to support a pilot project to assist
faculty in exploring the scholarly and teaching uses of digital resources
and print collections. Participants will also identify ways to more fully
incorporate undergraduate research as part of their courses as well as
discuss ways to effectively mentor undergraduates conducting research. The
program will be inaugurated next summer with a Summer Institute for the
Teaching of Undergraduate Research Competencies.
3. Round Robin / State-of-Instruction & Discussion:
A lively Q&A period followed her presentation. A. Warren asked if
non-tenure track faculty could participate in the Summer Institute. E.
Dupuis indicated that this is something she needs to clarify.
S. McDaniel, The Library's new Humanities Librarian, informed Council
members that as coordinator of GSI (Graduate Student Instructors) training
she also has a role in supporting instructional services. She is in the
process of developing plans to improve communication with GSIs in order to
help them develop their own teaching skills.
P. Bischof recommended that the Library explore the possibility of creating
an introductory course to help all students develop their information
seeking skills.
E. Dupuis concluded the discussion by indicating that we all need to be
proactive with faculty in order to improve bibliographic instruction across
the board and help them incorporate library related skills into their courses.
4. Programming for 2002/03:
K. Wayne informed Council members that $2,500 is still available from last
years budget to support a professional development project. Following a
recommendation from E. Dupuis Council members agreed to invite Dane Ward to
present an interactive workshop on faculty/librarian collaboration. D. Ward
is a librarian at the Illinois State University, and faculty of ACRL's
Institute for Information Literacy, Annual Immersion Programs
(http://www.ala.org/acrl/nili/immersion.html). It will be scheduled to take
place in mid October. Around 50 staff members will be able to attend.
K. Wayne distributed for discussion a report on the 'Arts & Humanities
Council Goals/Accomplishments, July 2001-July 2002." Council members agreed
that the work of the Council was on the right track. It was suggested that
Table Talk discussions should be encouraged and more faculty members should
be invited to the meetings. Members commented on the importance of AUL
liaison P. Iannuzzi's attendance and contributions.
K. Wayne will submit the report to T. Leonard and P. Iannuzzi and post it
on the A&H Council web page.
5. Function Council Reports:
J. Carter highlighted some issues discussed at the Collection Council's
June 11 and July 2nd meetings. A three year collections budget plan has
been proposed and there is a need to develop a serials funding model. A
Collections Council sub-group consisting of P. Iannuzzi , J. Carter, S.
Calpestri, and B. Weil will develop options for funding serials. These will
then be discussed at Subject Councils.
J. Carter also informed Council members that J. Gordon has distributed
x-funds to selectors. If anyone needs more funds they should contact P.
Iannuzzi. New Digital Library fund guidelines were distributed via email by
P. Iannuzzi for selector comment.
At the July meeting P. Iannuzzi distributed a draft of a letter from
Anthony Newcomb, Chair of the Academic Senate Library Committee, to
Department Chairs outlining Library liaison contacts and encouraging them
to invite their library contact to Department meetings.
Dates for interviews with candidates for AUL for Collections are: August,
22-23, 26-27, 29-30, September 9-10.
C. Delgado, Public Services Council representative, summarized the
presentation made by members of the Subcommittee of the Circulation
Services Group concerning their Mentoring Program proposal. The goal of
this project is to develop a support system to help new Circulation
Services staff better integrate into the Library system. C. Delgado
distributed relevant documents for the consideration and evaluation of
Council members. Comments are to be sent to I. Stirling. Further details
are available in the minutes of PSC's July 24th meeting.
M. Cochran informed the Council that she is working with C. Delgado on
drafting recommendations related to The Library's outreach offerings to
our non-UC user community. We need to clarify what are the
responsibilities of The Library regarding tours and research related
training for outside groups. Of particular concerns are tours and
orientation meetings with elementary and high school students and teachers.
Several options were discussed, like making available information packets
to teachers and/or setting up training sessions for them.
Council members should review the minutes of the Technical Services Council
and Administrative Council for a summary of their activities.
Carlos R. Delgado
438 Doe Library
University of California
Berkeley, CA 94720-6000
cdelgado@library.berkeley.edu
(510) 643-3351
fax: (510) 643-6650
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