Information Services Assessment Council Meeting Minutes

July 10, 2007

Present: Jennifer Church-Duran, Fran Devlin, Julie Fugett, Darrell McNamara, Holly Mercer, Kathy Moore, Bill Myers (chair), Bruce Oliver, Marianne Reed, Rhonda Sharp, Thelma Simons, Rebecca Smith, Sherry Umscheid
Absent: Jill Glaser, Ryan Papesh, James Tumlinson

AGENDA and NOTES

• Welcome and introductions
  Some additional discussion followed regarding outreach and assessment as complementary functions.
• Briefly review ISAC charge
  Members were asked to review the charge and the expectations of members and suggest any revisions to the chair.
  Members are asked to familiarize themselves with the ISAC Web site and the information provided there.
• Determine future meeting schedule (frequency, day of week, time of day) and protocols (agenda-building, minutes, communication, etc.)
  Members determined to maintain 2nd and 4th Tuesday meeting schedule. Watson Library was identified as the preferred location. Meeting requests for future dates will be sent to members. Protocols were not discussed.
• Begin to consider the question "What do we need to know?"
  Members identified issues for their respective areas of responsibility, accompanied by limited discussion. ISAC will address this question and these issues more specifically in weeks ahead.
• Identify topics/issues/actions for future meetings
  Members suggested the following:
  What are effective assessment techniques? How to determine what one is best?
  What to do with data? How to interpret data?
  Orientation to TechQual+ survey (Chair to follow-up - http://www.techqual.org/ )
  Orientation to Office of Institutional Research and Planning (Chair to schedule)
  Orientation to Human Subjects Committee-Lawrence (Chair to schedule)
  Recording, reporting and archiving assessment activities (Chair distributed draft document for review/commentary by members)