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Meeting Notes for July 20, 1999
Present
Terrance Burton, Valerie Frey-McClung, Kevin Halbritter, Kenneth
Landreth, Deborah Lewis, MaryBeth Mandich, Eilene McDaniel, Amir Ramezan,
Laura Roth, Norton Smith, and Alex Yohn.
Electronic Directory Demonstration
Amir Ramezan, Director of Operations for Academic Technologies, gave
a demonstration of the prototype for a Health Sciences Center-wide electronic
directory. The HSC Executive Committee has endorsed the electronic
directory.
HSC Web Presence Project
Alex Yohn presented the conceptual map of desired information resources
for the HSC web presence project. Program Team members were encouraged
to scrutinize the map for omissions, as well as additional linkages.
The next step in the process to redesign the HSC web presence will be to
identify what web resources are available now and what should be available
within the next year.
Academic Technologies has begun exploring possible designs for the tool
box web pages. Actual development of the web pages won’t be started
until the conceptual map is completed.
Survey of Technology in Instruction
A proposed questionnaire to measure technology in instruction within
the Health Sciences Center was distributed to members. The questionnaire
evolved out of efforts of the Education Focus Team to strategically plan
for information and technology needs. The questionnaire would help
identify to what extent technology is currently used in teaching, barriers
to incorporating technology in instruction, as well as faculty members
who would be willing to mentor their colleagues in the use of technology
in teaching. The survey will be distributed in mass to faculty members
by e-mail in mid-September. A limited number of hard copys of the
questionnaire will also be distributed.
Program Team members were encouraged to send their comments about the
survey instrument to Valerie Frey-McClung within the next two weeks.
Announcements
Laura Roth reported that the new laptops will be shipped out Friday,
July 23, 1999. Terrance Burton noted that the library now has an
employee who will handle Inter Library Loans. The new employee will
also be responsible for document delivery this fall. In addition,
MD Consult is now fully operational.
Next Meeting
The next Program Team meeting is scheduled for Tuesday, August 17 at
3:00 in the John E. Jones Conference Center.
