VOLUME 29, NO. 2 NEWSLETTER Fall 2006 ALBERTA ASSOCIATION
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VOLUME 29, NO. 2 NEWSLETTER Fall 2006 ALBERTA ASSOCIATION OF COLLEGE LIBRARIANS ISSN 0829-4321 Published in May and November by the Association [email protected] http://aacl.engineseven.com/ Editor – Dave Weber able to positively link with other types of libraries in MESSAGE FROM THE CHAIR the province. It was great to see everyone at the fall meeting of I hoped everyone enjoyed the festive season and AACL at Grant MacEwan College on November the New Year. rd 23 . A big thank you must go out to Karen Hering of GMC for planning and organizing the hosting In the spring, we can look forward to the end of the duties. Great lunch and good times. semester, blizzards accompanied by slightly warmer temperatures and the AACL meeting at I received a number of positive comments on this Mount Royal College on April 19th, 2007. fall’s workshop so I’d like to pass on this appreciation to Workshop Committee members Ann Geoff Owens Gish and Alice Swabey. I’m glad no one minded Mount Royal College the slight altering of the schedule due to the needs of those who had to venture home to points outside Alberta Association of College Librarians the city during this traditional Edmonton autumn Fall 2006 Minutes day. 6-313H of 106 St. Building I have noticed an increase in postings to our blog Grant MacEwan College since the meeting so I hope everyone becomes Thursday, November 23rd comfortable with visiting and sharing ideas. Thanks 9:00 am -3:00 pm to James Rout for all of his work on this great communication tool (http://aacl.engineseven.com). 9-9:30 Coffee and refreshments In August, I acted on behalf of AACL to fill out the 9:30-10:45 Questionnaire for Affiliate Members of The Alberta Welcome and introductions Library in order to provide information concerning and our perceptions about the benefits, issues and Approval of and additions to agenda trends that need to be considered in the 2007-2011 TAL report – Keith will do the report instead of TAL Strategic Plan. Luckily, I was able to consult Helga Kinnaird with some other provincial College librarians in answering the questionnaire. Some of the trends Approval of Minutes of the Spring 2006 meeting and issues we identified included digitization, Alice Swabey from Mount Royal College moved for succession planning, mandate transformation, approval of Minutes of the Spring 2006 meeting social networking, distance delivery, and Kathy Zarft seconded the motion. information literacy. I indicated our great Minutes approved. satisfaction with the databases, TAL’s role in advocacy, collaboration and how we have been AACL Newsletter Spring 2006 Executive Reports: putting all the stats together. It is a very time- consuming job and maybe it is turn for somebody Chair: Geoff Owens else to take on the task. We would need to think Geoff reported to the association regarding an about the succession plan for the statistics and the email request from TAL to him asking for college websites as well. Some options were discussed: a perspective for the TAL Strategic Plan. In the defined term for committees and working groups, overview he gave to TAL about what AACL thinks what we should do with other situations in which we TAL’s directions should be, he mentioned the feel the need to acknowledge the work. It was transition issues (Google Scholar, digitization, suggested to review the guidelines of the succession plan, social software technologies); Association at the next meeting. To acknowledge AACL’s priorities (information sharing, be ready to Nadia’s hard work, the Association recommended a meet the online distance learning trend); AACL’s 8- direct amount to Nadia as an honorary gift. It was year-long good relationship with TAL; and the suggested at $100 the first time. Keith Walker appreciation to TAL for their effort of supporting moved the motion and Dan Mirau seconded the resource sharing especially the databases. motion. The motion was amended and the amount then was increased to $200 with Keith Walker to Secretary/Treasurer: Lilian Li move the motion and James Rout to second the Lilian gave a brief report on the financial status of motion. All in favour. AACL. The last statement Lilian received indicated that AACL had a balance of $2,247. In addition, the 10:45 Break 2006-2007 membership fees have been deposited so that would add another $1,000 to the account. 11:10 Geoff announced the change of the plan due Out of the 34 members, 28 had paid their to the poor weather conditions. The meeting will membership fee. Lilian will send out a second end at 3pm so that attendees who need to travel invoice to those institutions that have not paid. back would get sufficient time. There will be no Lilian also circulated a sign-up sheet for attendance roundtable report. Dave Weber’s workshop will be and an AACL directory for updates. moved to the morning. Acknowledgement was given to Carol Sinanan to wish her best for her Committee and working group reports: retirement after serving Mount Royal College for Newsletter: Dave Weber almost 30 years. The deadline for the Winter Newsletter is the end of December. Dave will send out an email reminder. It TAL report: Keith Walker was suggested to post the Newsletter to the new TAL directors will be meeting tomorrow to talk about website, which is http://aacl.engineseven.com physical delivery and the draft of the strategic plan for 2007-2011. There will be one position coming up Workshop: Alice Swabey and Ann Gish for election to serve on the board as college The committee was not successful with the representative. TAL has been expanding from 30 application for CACUL grant to support workshop. members to 47 right now and will be celebrating its Alice and Ann would like input from the members 10-year milestone next year. for workshop ideas. LHCADL report: Ross Thrasher AACL listserv and website: James Rout Ross circulated a report to update the members James gave an overview of the new website. It is a with the Lois Hole Campus Alberta Digital Library matter of raising awareness of the new website to project. get people involved. The new website has RSS feed and blog features that James encouraged the CTCL report: Susan Brayford association members to take full advantage. James Susan reminded the members of the CTCL will talk to NAIT, who is the host for the old AACL publication -- Communiqué. It is available to CTCL website, to auto forward the request to the old members with hard copies and on the member site website to the new address. A discussion about of the CLA website. She invited everyone to attend whether we want to publish the AACL Librarians the 2007 CLA in St. Johns. CTCL thanked AACL for Directory followed. sponsoring the session at CLA. Susan encouraged nomination for CTCL awards. AACL statistics: Susan Brayford Susan commented that the AACL statistics helped her a great deal with SAIT Library’s self- assessment. She expressed appreciation to her assistant (Nadia Nastov) for her hard work on 2 AACL Newsletter _____ Fall 2006 ECampus Alberta: Meagan Weber Attendance Meagan reported that eCampus Alberta is developing its 5-year strategic plan and a new Name Institution business plan is under development too. The library Christine Sammon Alberta College of Art and Design committee will update their webpage and will add James Rout Banff Centre Carol Nicks Canadian University College LHCADL. Joyce Van Scheik Canadian University College Dan Mirau Concordia Univ. College of Alberta LAA & SALA: Karen Hering Ann Gish Grande Prairie Regional College Karen reported that LAA just had a meeting with the Joanne Kemp Grant MacEwan Karen Hering Grant MacEwan following updates: LAA is developing policies for Debbie McGugan Grant MacEwan risk-assessment; LAA is encouraging membership Tim Janewski King’s University College so that we can participate in the Educational Wanjiku Kaai Lakeland College Sheila Drummond Medicine Hat College Institute; LAA will change its Newsletter to e-format; Keith Walker Medicine Hat College and there will be major grant to literacy programs. Lilian Li Medicine Hat College For SALA, the Learning Resource Council Geoff Owens Mount Royal College Committee and LAA were the only ones that Alice Swabey Mount Royal College Ross Thrasher Mount Royal College showed up in the last SALA meeting; October 25 is Meagan Weber Mount Royal College Focusing on Libraries Day; AACL will need Carol Sinanan Mount Royal College volunteer to go to the next SALA meeting in Shannon D’Agnone NAIT Edmonton in February since Karen will be out of Christine Bourchier NAIT Isobel Rancier NAIT town by that time. It was agreed that we should Liz Pegoraro NAIT invite the First Nation colleges to attend AACL and Danessa Picklyk NAIT Geoff will follow up with this. Meagan will be able to Wendy Chivers Norquest College provide a list of the names of the colleges. Kathy Zarft Norquest College Diane Reid Norquest College Joan Morrison Norquest College Workshops: Helen Prosser Northern Lakes College Robin Minion Olds College 11:30-12:00 Reserving rooms in cyberspace: Barbara Palmer Portage College Terry Donovan Portage College SAIT’s web-based study room booking service by Wayne Wicks Prairie Bible Institute Dave Weber Nora Robinson SAIT Dave Weber SAIT 12:00-1:00 Lunch Kat Johnston SAIT May Chan SAIT Susan Brayford SAIT Workshop (Continued): Brad Neufeldt St. Mary’s University College 1:00 – 2:00 Pondering the 8Rs Canadian Library Human Resource Study – Allison Sivak, 8Rs AACL Newsletter Workshop Summary research associate Submitted by Alice Swabey 2:00 – 3:00 “Clicking” in the Classroom: Using Following the November 2006 business meeting, remote responder technology in the library there were three interesting and informative instruction classroom – Meagan Weber, Mount workshop presentations.