Present: Anderson, Ariel, Heiman, Horn, MacLeod, Manaka, Sisson
Guest: Cathy Palmer

The meeting focused on possible roles for both LAUC-I and UCI Libraries in supporting Information Literacy at UCI. Cathy Palmer attended as guest.

MacLeod had not heard from LAUC President Debbie Murphy about her scheduled visit to UCI on Monday, December 10. He sent her an agenda for the LAUC-I General Membership meeting. It includes the Distinguished Step and system-wide response to the Stanley Wilder video Generational Change in Librarians.

Palmer distributed the pamphlet Information Literacy Competency Standards for Higher Education [ACRL, 2000].

Ariel reported that UCLA was having a retreat this Friday (Dec. 12) on Information Literacy led by three people from California State, San Marcos. [for more on information literacy at UCLA see http://www.library.ucla.edu/infocompetence]

USC task force on Information Literacy focused on instruction [see http://isd.usc.edu/%7Esarahmcd/itfreport.html]. UCI has statistics, but no real information on context of instruction sessions. Ariel suggested need for strategic plan on instruction.

LAUC should emphasize we are making a commitment to this.

We need clarification of LAUC-I's role. What is our mission? Can we facilitate talks with rest of campus on this? Maybe we could submit proposal or position paper. Palmer envisions LAUC-I's role as more philosophical while the librarian role dealing more with content-What does it mean in my discipline?

On February 4th & 5th, 2002 there will be an instruction workshop on information competency tied to CDL. It will be conducted by two people from the Information Literacy Institute. Each campus will send people to attend. UCI attendees can report what they learn to other UCI librarians.

There has been an effort to bring a regional immersion institute in summer of 2002 at UCI.

We should use our direct links to Academic Senate Committees to get support from outside the library.