Yale University Library

Present: Susan Brady, Suzanne Eggleston, Judy Carnes, Diane Kaplan, Barbara Rockenbach, Andy Shimp, Martha Smalley

1. We discussed the fall instruction sessions briefly and agreed to arrange the spring semester schedule at our Nov. 9th meeting.
2. We discussed the "Instructional Accounts for Subscribed Electronic Resources of Yale University Library" draft offered by Kim Parker and made some suggestions, which Martha has relayed to Kim.
3. We began our exercise of looking at some other university library web sites to get ideas for the possible revision of our Research Education web site. (The goal of this exercise is to have some context for evaluating whether we should invest more time and effort into revising our site, or if we should just go with the status quo. My hope is that after one more session of looking at other sites, at our Oct. 26th meeting, we will decide whether or to what degree to make changes in our site.)

   Sites visited:

   Harvard (http://www.harvard.edu/museums/) --
   Very decentralized, no strong instruction/research education component.

   Oxford (http://www.lib.ox.ac.uk/) --
   Very British! No strong instruction/research education component.

   University of Texas (http://www.lib.utexas.edu/) --
   Nice phrase in online reference form: "If you are not affiliated with UT Austin, expect a reply only about unique resources of the General Libraries"
   The Undergraduate Library "Research It" and "Learn It" sections (http://www.lib.utexas.edu/Libs/UGL/) have considerable emphasis on the use of the Internet for research. Its "Document Rack" (http://www.lib.utexas.edu/Libs/UGL/Docs/) is an interesting concept.
   TILT (http://tilt.lib.utsystem.edu/) is their online literacy tutorial. It is interactive and uses lots of graphics.
   The Digital Information Literacy Office coordinates the instructional programs of the UT General Libraries; its site (http://www.lib.utexas.edu/Libs/UGL/DILO/) is oriented toward faculty.

   University of Arizona (http://www.library.arizona.edu/) --
   SABIO is information gateway. RIO (http://www.library.arizona.edu/rio/) is "a series of Web based, self-paced lessons designed to help you learn how to find information" -- see Database Basics (http://www.library.arizona.edu/rio/db1-1.html) as an example module. Frames-based interactive quiz for each module, e.g., http://www.u.arizona.edu/ic/rio/quizes/db/.

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