The business portion of the meeting was adjourned. Guest Speaker Jay Fern, University Library's Consultant to the Library faculty, spoke about his role as liaison between librarians and teaching faculty in the instructional teams. His primary job is to help librarians integrate into the teams by serving as a resource person on curricular matters and on how to make their ideas happen. As part of the instructional teams, librarians ideally have a role in course design, the development of rational assignments, and library orientation. The process is necessarily different for every team, so a hard and fast model is not possible.
Librarians can provide a baseline of services, though, and expand their input from there.
This program is being evaluated to see how librarians can participate more effectively within these teams.