ISAC Meeting Agenda and Minutes

Meeting Agenda 11/27/2007

Updates from members (assessment or other relevant issues)
IS Professional Development (see below)
Earlier this month, Denise Stephens sent an update on IS professional development to IS-All. The text of the message included the following:

"...As most of you are aware and many have experienced, the Libraries and IT regularly provide professional development opportunities for their respective staffs, but many of these activities have relevance for the broader organization of IS. Professional development is important at an individual level, and also is essential to our effective function as an organization. In addition to the IS Professional Development Council, there are a number of existing groups and/or councils that provide professional resources, tools, and support to the staff of Information Services. These include the Libraries' Diversity Committee, Libraries' governance groups, IS Organizational Effectiveness Council, and IS Assessment Council to name a few.

"Within the next couple of weeks, I will be asking the leaders of those groups and councils to meet, discuss and recommend how we can best address the professional and organizational development needs of our organization."

The group indicated will be meeting soon to discuss the following questions. I would like for us to discuss these at our meeting tomorrow, and I will subsequently share the substance of our conversation with the other group when it meets. We all have had some experience serving on an IS-wide council, so I think our experience and perceptions might be useful for them to consider.
- How can we best address the professional & organizational development needs of our organization?
- What helpful activities are already going on?
- What should we be doing that we are not?
- How can our existing groups & councils contribute to the effort of supporting/enhancing the professional & organizational development of our organization?
- What is necessary to ensure their contributions are relevant and engaged with the needs of the organization?

Meeting Minutes 10/23/2007

Present: Jennifer Church-Duran, Fran Devlin, Jill Glaser, Bill Myers (chair), Ryan Papesh, Sherry Umschied

Absent: Darrell McNamara, Holly Mercer, Kathy Moore, Bruce Oliver, Marianne Reed, Thelma Simons, Rebecca Smith

ECAR study impressions - postponed
TechQual update - TechQual+ team at Pepperdine continues to make adjustments to the form and function of the tool. Reed will represent KU's interest at EDUCAUSE meeting of participating institutions this week. Still planning for November use on campus. Promotion in OREAD and UDK. Members suggested other communication avenues like Senate Library committee, academic department chairs, Libraries subject specialists, technical liaisons, etc.
Update on other activities
All-staff presentations - Myers reported on discussion with Mercer and Reed. Will discuss with IS Cabinet for endorsement.