TexShare Education Working Group
November 1, 2000 - 10 a.m.
Texas Library Association Office
Minutes
The following members of the TexShare Education Working
Group met in Austin, Texas for the annual business meeting:
Belinda Boon, Kathleen Gallagher, Jerry Hoke, Bonnie Juergens,
James Karney, Janna Lawrence, Deborah Littrell, Lisa Loranc,
Antonio Martinez, Ted Wanner and Alice Specht, chair.
After introductions and welcome, the first item of business
was Belinda Boon's report on recent educational offerings
provided by the TSLAC Library Development Division. Belinda
provided handouts giving information about recent offerings
and reported that plans have been made to offer workshops
dealing with Gale databases, NetLibrary and Grant writing.
Web based tutorials, video offerings and mentoring were
also discussed as possible educational distribution methods.
There was some discussion of the possibility of providing
knowledgeable professionals to help individuals on specific
needs such as grant writing for particular projects such
as TexTreasures.
The working group reviewed the survey and discussed areas
where responses were not clear. Evidently "FTE" was not
a clear term to many and the question asking for rankings
from 1 to 16 solicited responses in different forms than
expected. The group decided to prepare the next questionnaire
to go out after the first of the year that was shorter.
Questions for the next survey would be a refinement and
include a question to mark topics of interest, the number
who could attend from that library, how far they could travel
and library identification and type. Janna Lawrence agreed
to chair the subgroup to work on this with Lisa Loranc,
and James Karney. Belinda Boon would assist. The draft survey
needs to be completed by early December. Bonnie Juergens
agreed to have an Amigos professional review the draft survey.
TexShare will distribute the survey in January.
The gathering of data through the registration form or
evaluation form for each workshop or educational offering
was discussed. Belinda Boon stated that the TSL requires
a 7 point Likert Scale for evaluative questions. The working
group agreed that we wanted to collect information from
attendees on the type and size of their library, the distance
traveled and the job description (title?) of the attendee
as well as the evaluative questions about the program. The
working group asked that some summary of this information
be provided to the working group about the workshops offered
under TexShare. Kathleen Gallagher, chair of the evaluation
subgroup, gathered feedback from the subgroup and noted
that information regarding the attendee's job level, the
library size and the distance traveled should be gathered.
Belinda noted that some of that information was gathered
on the registration forms and would be provided with the
program evaluative information in the future for the WG
to review.
Liaisons with other TexShare working groups were reviewed.
Bonnie Juergens agreed to liaison with the Courier Working
Group; Janna Lawrence with the Interlibrary Loan group;
Doug Birdsall with the Card Program; Jerry Hoke with the
Electronic Information Group; Kathleen Gallagher with the
Texas Collections and Lisa Loranc with the University of
Texas Strategic Partner (Rue Rimeriz). Each liaison member
will contact the chair (or their representative) and give
some information about the Education Working Group's mission
and work and to ask the chair for input to help the Education
Working group. If information is gathered about the need
for a workshop or other educational offering, the information
should be passed along to Belinda Boon, Deborah Littrell
and the Education Working Group. The liaison should contact
the working group chair at least three or four times during
the year.
The Working Group encouraged Belinda to look at the funds
available, remembering that the Interlibrary Loan group
will be offering their workshop during the summer of 2001,
and make a plan to provide as many different topics and
types of programs in a variety of locations as the funds
will allow. The Working Group agreed that there is a need
for educational programs to support TexShare and want to
be sure that a wide range of programs (as well as distribution
methods) is offered.
Deborah Littrell discussed the TexShare marketing plan.
She agreed to keep the Working Group informed about how
that would relate to our work. All members of the working
group whose terms expire in December 2000 agreed to continue
to serve another term. The current chair, Alice Specht,
stepped down as chair at the end of her current term, but
will continue to serve on the working group.
The Working Group expressed its appreciation to the Texas
Library Association for allowing us to meet in their conference
room and adjourned at 3.p.m.
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