SQI Assessment Group Notes and Action Items
Wednesday, August 22
11:00 - 12:30
SML Room 411
All present: Katie Bauer, Will Wheeler, Pamela Mann, Tony Oddo, Jennifer Weintraub, Abe Parrish, Holly Grossetta Nardini (chair)
Notes from meeting:
- Housekeeping
- Meeting schedule. Our next meeting will be Wednesday, September 12. Meeting Maker proposal sent with tentative schedule of every other Wednesday. We’ll keep those as placeholders and cancel/reschedule as needed.
- Review of SQI Assessment Group 1 (Katie)
- Katie will send original URL to group, latest work is at: http://www.library.yale.edu/assessment/refstats02.html
- Reader Survey Overview (Holly)
- Draft of factors for fall reader survey distributed. Will be discussed at next meeting.
- More info available in online Journal of Acad Librarianship, Volume 26, Issue 4 (July 2000 ) by Danuta Nitecki
- Resources on campus
- Ann Green – willing to come to a meeting or locate a faculty member to help us with any problem: sampling, error, etc.
- Reviewed charge and minor changes made. Definition of overall program purpose/service contract tabled until next meeting.
- What can we realistically accomplish this year? Plan to partner with a few groups, units, or individuals to do a few small assessment projects. Will compile an action plan for ourselves at the next meeting based on needs described by library staff.
Action Items:
Holly: Take brief minutes, schedule meetings, edit charge and send to group for final review, create Web space for our work, start running list of assessment needs
Abe: describe example of reference/instruction work he’s doing for yulib e-mail
Pamela: draft e-mail message for yulib-l about general assessment needs
Jennifer: gather responses to the e-mail appeal
Katie: work on short bibliography to expose us to general assessment/service quality concepts
Next meeting:
- More discussion of fall reader survey. Review service factors.
- Begin to define program purpose & milestones
- Plan how to begin an inventory of assessment taking place in the libraries
- Review response to e-mail. Next steps? Focus group?
- Name for group
- Finalize charge