University and College Division, OLA
February 10, 1999 - 1 PM
Library, Oklahoma State University

Approval of Minutes from the last two meetings

The November 1998 and January 1999 minutes were approved.

Old Business

Committee Reports

 

Workshop Committee

Sheila Grant-Johnson discussed the scheduled workshop, Taking Control of the Internet: Tools for managing and accessing the Internet, at OU Health Sciences Center Bird Library Auditorium on April 27, 1999. The workshop was approved at the January OLA Executive Board meeting. UCD members present commended the committee on the excellent workshop plans.

 

Conference Committee

Tom Biggs gave the report for the conference committee starting with the Really hands-on Web Page Design scheduled for Wednesday, March 24, 1999. In this workshop, participants will create their own web page using web page creation software. The presenters for this workshop are Andy Peters, Jon Woltz, Anna Moore and John Rosenhamer.

Library Support for Distance Learners is another pre-conference and it is co-sponsored by the University and College Division and the OCALD (Oklahoma Council of Academic Library Directors). This pre-conference is also scheduled for March 24, 1999. Dr. Richard Madaus, Director, College Center for Library Automation and Chair, Steering Committee for Distance Learning of the Florida Distance Learning Library Initiative will be the presentor and the program will include a reactor panel of university administrators and public and university librarians. This workshop is a repeat of the ACRL workshop held last November.

Effective Bibliographic Instruction - Traditional or New is a poster session jointly co-sponsored by the Library Education Division and UCD scheduled for March 25, 1999. Several contributed paper presentations also sponsored by the UCD will also be presented on March 25. They include Two Reference Librarians' Experience Writing a Reference Work, The Role of the Reference Librarian In the Electronic Information Environment and Researching, Rethinking and Rebooting: Designing Library Instruction for English. The contributed paper presentations sponsored by UCD and scheduled for Friday, March 25, are Information Seeking Behavior of Scientists at the University of Oklahoma, Shelving and Shelf Reading, Web Based Training for Library Instruction: Library Research Survival Guide for Biological Sciences 1114, American Indian Women Stereotypes in Children's Literature, The Digital Atlas of Oklahoma: A Vast Amount of Cartographic Data and A Digital Challenge: Bringing Kappler's Indian Affairs: Laws and Treaties to the World Wide Web. A total of nine presentations and seven posters sessions are scheduled for the conference. Peggy Cook and her committee are to be commended for such a fine job.

Dr. Bob Swisher, professor at SLIS, the University of Oklahoma, will be presenting Librarians, Libraries and Librarianship in the 21st Century on March 25 (also sponsored by UCD).

 

Electronic Services Communication Committee

Tom Biggs gave the report for the Electronic Communications Resources Committee. The listserv membership figure for UCD is down from fifty-four to forty. We need to drum up some interest in the listserv perhaps by having local job listings on listserv. We have a lot of links and information on our Web page and if you have anything you think needs to be deleted or added please contact Charles Brooks at TU. One idea was for the division to come up with a draft message that would encourage UCD members to join the listserv by e-mail.

 

Interactive Video

Will try another interactive video meeting in June probably.

 

Other Old Business

Barbara Bradley recommended placing the information from the salary survey on the Web page. The response from the salary survey was 50% returned responses.

Nominating committee ballots have been sent out and are due by February 16.

New Business

 

Mentoring Program

Tom Biggs mentioned that the executive board showed an interest in the mentoring program. As soon as students graduate from the OU School of Library and Information Studies we might try to pair them with a mentor. New librarians in the state with up to 3 years experience could buddy up with new graduates at conference. The mentoring system helps both the new librarians and it is also a good way to increase OLA membership. New librarians have no better place to network than through OLA and the UCD. A bibliography of mentoring was sent around the table. If there is an interest for mentoring maybe this could be formalized in the near future. This could also be used as a recruiting tool for academic libraries. Tom would like to begin a discussion on this and maybe even start a committee in April.

 

Membership Drive

Encourage fellow library staff to join OLA and the UCD division. Only a $1 investment to joint the UCD division. Please also encourage institutional membership as well.

 

Other New Business

Suggest that the division maybe meet over the summer to discuss workshops for next year and also perhaps have workshops in the fall as well as the spring.

 

Next Meeting

April 6, 1999 at 1:00 at Robert M. Bird Health Sciences Library, University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center.

Respectfully submitted,
Alan Lawless