ACRL New England Chapter News Online

ISSN 1527-0106

Winter 2007, Number 110

In This Issue (Home):

President's Letter

2007 Annual Conference Date Set

Board Elections begin this month!

ACRL Legislative Advocates Needed

Interest Group Reports:

Chapter Member News:

Board Minutes, January 9, 2007
Calendar Listings

NELIG Report and Announcements

Kendall Hobbs, Wesleyan University
Susan Herzog, Eastern Connecticut State University
Co-Chairs, New England Library Instruction Group

The second NELIG meeting of 2006/2007 took place on December 8th. Rensselaer at Hartford hosted NELIG's first successful meeting testing Elluminate virtual conferencing software. This software allows multiple sites to link to the host location with audio and projector feeds, as well as chat-based communication, on a real-time basis. According to evaluations after the program, virtual conferencing is not as good as being there but works very well as a substitute for either not being at the presentation or having to drive several hours to get there.

There were a total of 69 NELIG members from five group sites and a few individuals located throughout New England:

• Providence College - 17 participants
• Bowdoin College - 2 participants (others had signed up, but attendance was low due to a snowstorm)
• Springfield College - 14 participants
• Keene State College - 17 participants
• Rensselaer at Hartford - 15 participants
• Individual Sites - 4 participants

Susan Slaga and Emily Chasse, Central Connecticut State University, discussed their work to convert CCSU's information literacy course to an online environment using WebCT. The original for-credit format of the class was a demonstration of library resources that began in 1995 and was further developed as the campus added computers.

Libby Knapik, Sacred Heart University, discussed Sacred Heart's online information literacy class, the result of a NEASC (New England Association of Schools and Colleges) review.

Our next meeting will be in March; date, topic, and location are currently being worked on.

NELIG's 2007 Annual Meeting, Demystifying Assessment: Evaluating Student Learning will be held at Assumption College, Worcester, on Friday, June 8th.