Coordinating Committees

User Services Coordinating Committee Progress Report to CUWL

April 8, 2011

Submitted by Jill Markgraf, USCC Chair

Members of USCC:

  • Heather Weltin, UW-Madison   
  • Cris Prucha, UW-La Crosse
  • Kris Midthun, UW-Milwaukee
  • Laura Jacobs, UW-Superior    
  • Brad Gee, UW-River Falls
  • Jennifer Chamberlain, UW-Colleges       
  • Mark Rozmarynowski, UW-Stevens Point
  • Kimberly Bartosz, UW-Parkside
  • Zora Sampson, CUWL--ex-officio             
  • Felice Maciejewski, UWSA--ex-officio
  • Jill Markgraf, Chair, UW-Eau Claire

The CUWL User Services Coordinating Committee has continued its work toward the Strategic Initiatives established by CUWL. A large focus of its efforts have been on planning and holding a monthly teleconference forum series to inform and facilitate discussion and idea sharing among librarians throughout the UW System. In addition, the Committee has identified topics and solicited presenters for several sessions at the upcoming CUWL conference. The Committee has begun work on developing an inventory of library instruction assessment and expertise for the UW System. Committee members meet monthly via teleconference. In addition to planning and discussing the items below, the members share developments from their own libraries with the group.

Webinars:
The series of USCC webinars continues, with three per semester offered. The webinars are recorded and archived on the CUWL website (http://uwlib.uwsa.edu/committees/userservices/documents/) . Freeconference.com charges $6.50 per recording.

  • Oct. 21: FYE FYI: The library and first year experience programs, with Kim Bartosz and Molly Mathias. (Strat. Dir. 2, Obj. 1): We do not have exact attendance numbers but do know that 22 phone lines dialed in.
  • Nov. 18: LEAPin Libraries with Sarah McDaniel, Laura Jacobs, and Kate Ganski recap (Strat. Dir. 2, Obj. 3):  We do not have exact attendance numbers but do know that 16 phone lines dialed in.
  • Dec. 16: Library liaisons with Barbara Bren and Jill Markgraf (Strat. Dir. 2, Obj. 3, Strat. Dir. 2, Obj. 1):  We do not have exact attendance numbers but do know that 14 phone lines dialed in.

  • Select topics for spring semester webinars:
    • Mar. 17: Resource discoveries: Teaching with Xerxes, with Kate Ganski (UWM) and Katie Sanders (UW Colleges) (Strat. Dir. 1, Objs 1-3, Strat. Dir 2, Obj. 3): Librarians from 14 locations dialed into this session. 
    • Collaborations with K-12 community (Strat. Dir. 2, Obj. 1):  Originally scheduled for Feb. 17, but canceled due to unrest on campuses, has been rescheduled for April 14.
    • Digital Collections (Strat. Dir. 1, Obj. 2; Stra.t Dir. 2, Obj. 6):  scheduled for April 21. This forum will be a collaboration with the Digital Initiatives Coordinating Committee.
    • Evaluation of webinar series (Strat. Dir 3, Obj. 1): The committee is drafting a survey to assess the value of the monthly lunch forums to CUWL librarians and staff.  The survey will be conducted following the April webinars.

Assessment: develop online repository of assessment tools, techniques, experience (Strat. Dir. 3, Obj. 1)

The committee has begun working on a survey to send to the CUWL directors regarding the tools and procedures being used at each library for assessment (reference, instruction, etc). The survey results will ultimately be reported on the USCC wiki.

Membership: The committee is still awaiting official word on the replacement of the archivist representative seat vacated by Colleen McFarland last spring.

CUWL Conference: The committee has identified and/or solicited eight sessions for the CUWL summer conference. (Strat. Dir. 3, Obj. 4) They are:

  • Collaborations with K-12 community (Strat. Dir. 2, Obj. 1)
    Kati Tvaruzka, UWEC, others?
  • Collaborative Spaces (Strat. Dir. 2, Obj. 1, Strat. Dir. 3, Obj. 5)
    John Pollitz, UWEC, Molly Mathias, UWM, Anita Evans, UWL,  Carrie Kruse, UW-Madison, Jennifer Chamberlain, UW Colleges
  • Reference assessment (Strat. Dir 3, Obj. 1):
    Steve Baumgart, others?, UW-Madison
  • Marketing Your Library, or We’ve Done That Already, Now What? (Strat. Dir. 2, Obj. 1)
    Brad Gee and Cate Dodson, UWRF
  • Presentation Toolkit (Strat. Dir. 3, Obj. 5, Strat. Dir. 1, Obj. 3)
    Theresa Beaulieu, Kristin Woodward, Maria Cunningham, UWM
  • Lesson study: instruction assessment (Strat. Dir 3, Obj. 1, Strat. Dir. 2, Obj. 1)
    Hans Kishel, Eric Jennings, Jill Markgraf, Shevaun Watson, Cathy Rex, UWEC
  • Libraryh3lp chat system in a consortial environment (Strat. Dir. 3, Obj. 3, Strat. Dir. 3, Obj. 5)
    Katie Sanders and Ann Vogl, UW Colleges
  • CUWL Distance Library Services Committee (Strat. Dir. 1, Obj. 3)
    Anne Kasuboski, UWGB, and Stefan Smith, UWL, co-chairs