Wednesday, Oct. 17, 2007
9:00 am

Results of Meeting with Rachel Applegate

• Rachel asked that we continue to gather reference area statistics for her study.  The data that we are providing her – number of questions, types of questions, number of people occupying the referene area, including the music reference area and small periodical stack area, is fine.  She is drawing statistics from a wide range (seven or eight) other institutions, and, while she hasn’t done any definitive analysis yet, the statistics are comparable to the other institutions, taking into considering such things as instution size, etc.
• Teresa and Rachel will be moving forward with conducting the second Butler Library Student Survey using some MG101 courses and a MG320 course.  If you haven’t taken a look at  the results of this survey, ask Teresa for a copy, it provides some interesting insights into how students are using the library and how much faculty encouragement plays a role in  how students use our resources.  Because this survey is short and is tied to a class, Rachel  may be willing to supporting addtional studies with classes in this same fashion.

Meebo

• Some of the quirks are being worked out with this tool.  We will continue to monitor it this semester for useability.  While new technologies by there very nature are disruptive, we will want to continue to work on planning ahead for these these types of transitions to go as smoothly as possible.

Information Commons

• To keep you abreast on what Lewis is reading, Lewis currently has “The Information Commons Handbook” by Donald Robert Beagle on his desk.  It has some interesting analysis concerning how the Information Commons concept is more then just the physical structure but also delves into the virtual and cultural layers of such an environment.  Just an FYI to keep you abreast on what our Dean is reading!

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