Meeting Minutes – 11/10/2021

SGO Meeting Agenda

Wednesday, November 10th 2021

Welcome/Introductions – 1-5 minutes

Open Forum – 1-10 minutes

Topics – 5-10 minutes

Recap of the fall social event at Minnehaha Park, which totalled around 17 attendees. We agreed to plan to do the same event a few weeks earlier next year.
There will be a December SGO meeting conflict with GSAB. We proposed and agreed on moving the SGO monthly meeting up one day to Tuesday, December 7th.
Nomination form going out for open SGO positions soon via email, keep an eye out to apply to open committee positions and a spring SGO co-chair position.
December graduates – Planning to hold an informal virtual social event on Zoom.

Student Groups : updates, events, requests – 5-10 minutes

ALA – Representative: Alyssa Costopoulos
- ALA will be hosting a Medical and Health Sciences Librarianship Panel on Tuesday, November 16 (5:00-5:45 PM).
- Possible future student-led GIS software workshop in December
- May continue monthly Bauhaus brew labs trivia hangouts depending on COVID-19 risk.
SLA – Representative: Erin Gingrich
- SLA has an upcoming tour in mid November for the American Craft Council on Saturday, November 15th. Still a few slots left, but capacity is limited.
- Currently working on organizing a publishing and presenting research panel in early December.
SAA – Representative: Dan Sustacek
- SAA members joined a tour of the Hennepin County Library organized for the Preservation class.
- SAA will be holding a face-to-face community project event from 9am to 12pm on Saturday, November 13 with the American Craft Council
- A few members may be doing a project for the Hennepin History Museum for the Aquatennial Collection
- New Professionals Panel will be held virtually on December 1 from 5-6pm.
PLG – Representative: None present, Katie Hendrickson Gagen spoke
- PLG will be meeting Monday, November 15th from 6-9pm in-person to pack books with the Women’s Prison Book Project again!

Financials – 3 minutes

Treasury update – Amber
- Current balance —> $6,283.08
- Funding is still limited to virtual events only, but reimbursement for those events is plentiful.

Committees Reports – 5 minutes

Standard I “Systematic Planning” – Erin Gingrich (Faculty Chair is Dr. Lim)
Goals for MLIS programs; how to measure success of goals; alignment of MLIS strategic goals with University strategic goals
- Met Wednesday, 11/10. Working on a plan for increasing enrollment and DEI (Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion) efforts as part of that enrollment program. Also discussed the student experience and the possibility of restarting the defunct SGO peer mentoring program and how that relates to ongoing DEI efforts.

Standard II “Curriculum”– Kenzie Putz is the new representative, Erin Gingrich filled in for the last meeting (Faculty Chair is Dr. Yoon)
In charge of overseeing changes to curriculum; vetting new courses; does current curriculum need review/updates; etc
- Met Monday, 11/08. Two new course proposals that were finalized: One taught by David McKoskey that will be on web development (between/building on the existing data management and web design courses) and one on information ethics and algorithmic bias, which was taught as a temporary topics course in summer 2020. There was also discussion about revision of the SLOs to merge a few of the existing SLOs to make 7 total under the same existing categories and the behavioral indicators that will be discussed for ePortfolio artifacts.

Standard III “Faculty” – Elizabeth Johnson – Position will be opening next semester (Faculty Chair is Dr. Ross)
Structured time for faculty to connect with each other; sometimes schedule those to allow student attendance; have in past developed a handbook for faculty
- No updates

Standard IV “Students” – Corinne Burrell (Faculty Chair is Dr. Lesniaski)
Orientation (design of); oversight of scholarship funds; (email-based discussions of student services)
- No updates

Standard V “Facilities” – OPEN (Faculty Chair is Dr. Ross)
Considers classroom spaces & technology availability
- No updates

Questions? Comments?

New graduate student orientation for spring semester on January 26th, 2022. St. Kate’s would like the MLIS program to do an orientation soon after. Group agreed to tentatively plan for Thursday, January 27th.
HCL is looking for substitute associate librarians, and there may be event for students to attend to get to know what substitute associate librarians do and participate in brief interviews for a position.

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