February+1,+2007

=ISLU Meeting Minutes=

Agenda
1. Welcome and Introductions 2. Debbie Naylor - UELMA's incoming president http://www.uelma.org

3. Presentation at UELMA - Pam and Jan 4. E-mail change If your e-mail changes, please send me an email with the notation that this is new.

5. Needs for next year Co-chair - host and plan the meetings. Keep the membership list up-to-date. Send out e-mails.

6. Library sites and databases 7. Books John Nutall's request

[|CLAU] - Becky Hall Pam's books (in process) [|Newberry and Caldecott] winners

8. Meeting date - April 8th

=Minutes=

February 1, 2007
AGENDA Feb. 1st, 2007 Waterford School Lower School Library

1. Welcome

Jan Duane welcomed us to the Waterford Lower School Library and excused Becky Hall

2. Business • We need someone to take notes at ISLU meetings

Lynn Lonsdale agreed to take notes.

• We need someone to represent the Independent Schools at the Pioneer meetings

Jean Robinson from Redeemer Lutheran has agreed to represent ISLU by sitting on the UEN Pioneer Subcommittee. She will attend the monthly meetings when Becky Hall steps down. Many thanks to Jean for taking on this responsibility.

• Directory updates (will be on your email as an attachment)

The ISLU Directory was passed around. Please correct errors and submit changes in your contact information to Jan Duane so she can keep our directory up-to-date.

• UELMA – March 1st www.uelma.org

Everyone should attend Utah’s annual meeting for Library Media Specialists – it’s a good meeting, and worth the time.

3. Discussion • Disinformation Websites -- Lynn Lonsdale

We held a short discussion on identifying a few Faux, Hate, and Disinformation websites that would be helpful in a lesson for students doing online research. When we teach students about Evaluating Websites it’s helpful to show them both legitimate sites and websites with problems that require that they learn how to think about online information. The handout is attached.

• Conferences and Workshops

We reviewed a list of upcoming Conferences and Workshops of special interest to librarians. We discussed the importance of Professional Development in keeping our skills fresh and in bringing new ideas to the job. If you never ask for support in attending Professional Development activities, you will certainly never get any.

• Weeding -- Martha Quinn
A short discussion was held on the difficulty of weeding the Fiction collection. What to keep and what to throw out? That’s the dilemma. The term MUSTIE was suggested as a guide: Weed titles if they are: Misleading Ugly Superseded by new editions or better books Trivial Irrelevant to patron interests Easily obtained Elsewhere through interlibrary loan.

A web link to www.sunlink.brodart.com is included.

• Collection Development – Jan Duane
A short discussion was held on tools we can use to help with collection development. Follett’s Titlewave – www.titlewave.com has a free collection analysis tool and reviews of new books. Also don’t miss Cindy Mitchell’s excellent site for book reviews: www.sjms.jordan.k12.ut.us/MediaCenter/corner.htm The handout is attached.

4. Next Meeting: April - a tentative date has been set for Tuesday, April 3, 2007

Place -- hosted by Giselle Airriess at St. Vincent’s School

Topics (so far): Evaluating websites Scope and sequence and lessons Integrating technology in the library Inventory