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LIS Faculty Divisional Advisory Groups Introduction

LIS has created divisional advisory groups that meet once or twice a semester to provide advice, feedback, and guidance to LIS. The groups are organized by academic disciplines:

Each is co-chaired by someone from LIS and a faculty member. Each department and program has a representative. Advisory groups provide a regular opportunity for LIS to hear from faculty about how things are going, what the issues are, what needs are emerging, and for LIS to float new ideas for services and resources.

Topics that might be discussed could include:

  • classrooms
  • computer labs
  • software distribution
  • emerging computer support needs (cluster computing, imaging, support for media production)
  • course management systems (e.g. Segue)
  • help desk/desktop support
  • support for discipline-specific applications (e.g. Mathematica, SPSS,
    Final Cut)
  • trends in scholarly communication and institutional repositories (IRs)
  • topics in collection management (budget, journals, monograph collections, databases)
  • in-class library instruction (aka information literacy) and/or tutorials
  • senior work
  • additional topics as they emerge

There is already in place a faculty committee for LIS – Faculty LIS Advisory Committee (FLAC), consisting of 5 faculty and the Dean of LIS. The members of FLAC will also serve on these divisional groups, which will allow for two-way communication between the divisions and the campus-wide advisory group.The five smaller divisional advisory groups will allow us to focus on more discipline-specific questions, and it ensures (if the representatives do their work) that every department and program has an opportunity to have its voice heard.