ACIL Meeting Minutes - 16th February 2005

MEETING NOTES AND ACTION POINTS

1 Present: Hilary Johnson, Wendy White, Peter Godwin, Janet Peters, Helen Hathaway, Stephen Town, Sheila Webber

Notes taken by HH and WW.

Apologies: Jo Parker, Martin Jenkins, Liz Hart, Ellen Breen

2 NOTES OF PREVIOUS MEETING
Accepted.
Page 1. Ellen Breen was in attendance
Page 1: Bowden changed to Boden
Page 3: Eduserve changed to Eduserv

3 MATTERS ARISING
Notes of the previous meeting:

• JaP had contacted all the authors involved in the Learning Outcomes and Information Literacy publication about the proposal to translate the publication into Polish. Not all authors responded so this was deemed insufficient to go ahead. It had been mentioned on Sheila’s weblog and received positively
  By Whom: JaP Action No.: 10/11
  
• SW reported that the Sheffield CETL bid had been successful. IL would be a key theme and there would be a research output. We agreed that it would be useful to look a links with IL elements of other CETL projects and also the development of an IL community of practice for librarians by Chris Powis as part of his NTF.
• PG did send an item on the work of ACIL to Library Update for the special issue on IL, but it was not selected for publication. In the light of the subsequent review of SCONUL’s activity this was probably fortuitous. ACIL noted that the Update special issue on IL was very positive and had covered a range of issues.
  By Whom: HJ Action No.: 11/01
  
• HJ alerted the group to the work of Norman Jackson at the Institute of Education EPPI Centre on exploring the evidence-base for the development of pedagogy. HJ to circulate details.
• JaP had made a response to the Shaping the Academy consultation paper
  

Outstanding Action Points:

• It was noted that we the OU are now at the stage of revising MOSAIC and that we would progress our work with this pending the result of the OU review. HJ would contact JoP to finalise the copy of paper to go to the SCONUL Executive Board.
  By Whom: HJ/JoP Action No.: 10/09
  
• We agreed that whilst the SCONUL restructuring continued that the ACIL event that we had planned for 2006 should be taken forward as part of the new tripartite group. HJ to take this forward at their next meeting on 3 March. Other members of the group are Sue Roberts from SCONUL, Helen Fletcher and Steve Gough from UCISA, Rhonda Riachi and Steven Brown from ALT. HH had costed out Warwick which looks too expensive so Reading has been suggested as an alternative venue with appropriate facilities.
  By Whom: HJAction No.: 10/03
  
• We agreed that we needed to seek clarification about the current status and future of information on the task force pages of the SCONUL website. HJ to contact TB and ST to liaise with Selena Lock.
  By Whom: HJ/STAction No.: 11/02
  
• There is a proposal that EduServ host the new cross-sectoral IL site as outlined at the previous meeting by Debbie Boden. ST to be the SCONUL representative at a meeting about this arranged for April 15th.
  By Whom: ST Action No.: 11/03
  
• It was agreed that we should identify IL networks and links that need to be kept open by whatever means under a new structure to ensure that SCONUL is able to continue useful work. A list of organisational contacts should be produced.
  By Whom: ALL Action No.: 11/04

4 DISCUSSION OF ACIL WORK
The ongoing areas of work that ACIL is engaged with were discussed. We raised a number of concerns about continuity of work in some areas and HJ will contact Suzanne Enright to look at developments.
By Whom: HJAction No.: 11/05

5 Any Other Business

There was no additional business.

Updated October 2005 by Selena Lock S.A.Lock@Cranfield.ac.uk.