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MIT Libraries Instruction Committee Goals and Reviews 2005 Goals Seasonal or ongoing projects include:  Statistics (currently Maggie) Coordination of IAP (currently Anne) Cambridge – MIT Institute relationship (Anne) Toolkit production and maintenance (Angie, Patty, Kate) Ongoing maintenance of tutorials – Information Navigator, Barton Basics (Angie) Keeping staff web page up to date (Angie) Teaching the Teachers, as adapted from TLL’s Jane Dunphy (Kate) Keeping up with information literacy concepts and how it relates to MIT (all) GIS and data services instruction – keeping up communication (Lisa and all) Writing Across the Curriculum Faculty relationship building (Patty) Include a when to google and when not to program for these folks? Short term goals include: Support and feedback for instruction coordinators as they create divisional library instruction plans Follow up and next steps for the Task Force on the Educational Commons Ideas for future goals – for 2006 or later: Reinstate Spring Seminar series Design and implement a peer-support instructional system System wide instruction plan development Assessment as part of programs/plans 2004 Goals Seasonal or ongoing projects include: spring seminar (currently Anne and Kate) statistics (currently Howard) coordination of IAP (currently Howard) partnership with MIT Career Services (everyone) EndNote programming (currently Howard) Short term goals include: Update the Information Navigator (Angie, Peter, Patty) Create an instructional toolkit (Angie, Kate, Patty) Redesign Instruction Committee staff web pages (Angie, Peter) Redesign Instruction Committee public web pages (Anne, Howard) Long term goals include: Explore course management systems with the Reference Committee Explore issues related to development of instruction plans at the local and system-wide levels Develop an understanding of assessment in relation to our instruction plans and programs Design a peer-support instructional system Explore the concept of information literacy in relation to MIT Explore relationships with instruction for GIS and data services