WGIL Meeting Minutes 30th Nov 2007
SCONUL WGIL meeting 30th November 2007
Present: Jan Howden (Chair)
Alison Mackenzie (Secretary)
Moira Bent
Wendy White
Peter Godwin
Cathryn Gallacher
Cathie Jackson
John Wolstenhome
David Sadler, Director of Networks, HEA, by invitation
Summary of the main points from discussions with David Sadler
- Contact with DS to be kept to a regular 6 months with possible attendance at WGIL meetings
- Suggestion of a possible HEA/WGIL workshop to be run at the SCONUL conference in June
- Suggestion of involvement at both the National Teaching Fellows and HEA Annual conferences
- Need to explore co-branding – JH to discuss with EB?
- To improve engagement of all subject centres with librarians/information professionals and to provide subject centres with key contacts for the Information profession
- Suggestion that subject centres might include events focused on librarians/information professionals/learning technologists
Main Agenda
Item 1 – Apologies
Received from Ellen Breen; Jo Parker; Sheila Webber
Item 2 – Minutes of the meeting held on 7th September 2007
Accepted as a correct record
Item 3 – Matters arising (not covered by main agenda items)
No matters arising
Item 4 – Chairs Report
The Chair suggested that the group should be represented at UCISA-TLIG events, in particular its annual conference. This year the TLIG-SDA User Support Conference, will be held between 1-3 July 2008, University of Reading;
There is also the opportunity for a joint research project emerging from the work of CG and the ANZIL.
Item 5 – Action plan
Progress reports
From the Action plan the EB has concluded that the plans to ‘Commission a consultant to review UK, Ireland and European policy on IL in the HE context and identify actions and opportunities for SCONUL to influence policy with the key stakeholders’should be postponeduntil a decision has been reached on the future role and scope of the L&T task and end group, and the IL position paper/report to be published by Sheila Corrall.
It was noted that the IL literature review jointly funded by the HEA and SCONUL is still awaiting publication
Progress on the research project related to use of the SCONUL 7 Pillars model -
CG reported that phase 1 which was a simple collation of information on use or non-use of the SCONUL 7 Pillars from across the UK HE community had resulted in only 39 responses; it was planned to re-send the survey in the New Year. Phase 2 will also have a wider focus and look at the use of the model, not only in strategies, but also as a basis to inform learning outcomes.
Allocation of additional responsibilities to WHIL members – see attached updated Action plan
Item 6- Updates from related groups/organisations e.g. CILIP; TLIG; ENIL; UNESCO etc
Siberian Library Association president will be attending the LILAC conference on 17-19 March 08;
AOB
The publication jointly edited by PG and JP Information Literacy meets Library 2.0 is now due to be published early 2008
Date of next meeting
April 9th 2008 @ 12.30pm Sconul Office