ALIA Information Literacy Forum

Meeting minutes

Tuesday 24 June 2004

Minutes by Helen Partridge, 26 August 2004

Present: Lesley Ngatai, Helena Zobec, Helen Partridge, Annmaree Lloyd, Cathy Costa
Apologies: Mandy Lupton, Mark Jones, Jane Knowles, Liz Burke, Lynn Mcintosh

1. 2004 Online Forum

Lesley informed the committee that Ralph Catts was only tentatively available to participate in the online forum if it was held in October. The committee decided that given Ralph's current workload it would be best to approach other possible participants. Helen will contact the QUT researchers (and other QLD practitioners) involved in IL within community. Helen will inform the committee of who will be participated in the forum by 1 September with the participant discussion submissions being forwarded to the committee for comment by the end of September. The committee agreed that the forum should take place from the 11 - 22 October. Lesley will arrange for the forum to be promoted in inCite. Helena will forward to Lesley the promotion material from last year.

Action: 2004 Online Forum will be held 11 - 22 October

Action: Helen to contact QUT community IL researchers/practitioners regarding participation in the 2004 online forum. Helen will advise the committee of participants by 1 September.

Action: Lesley will arrange for promotion of the 2004 Online Forum in inCite.

Action: Helena to forward to Lesley promotion materials from last year's online forum.

2. National Policy Congress

Lesley will represent the group at the NPC. Please contact Lesley with anything that you would like discussed at the NPC. The main point being raised by the group is the restricted access to members only to parts of the group's web site.

Action: All committee members to advise Lesley of any issues to be discussed at the NPC.

3. Role of the group

The committee agreed that the group should have the following six focus areas for the next year:

1. continue with annual online debates
2. maintain the regular newsletter
3. contribute to ALIA submissions to the government on matters as alerted by ALIA
4. advise ALIA of any external Information Literacy related matters that ALIA should be aware of
5. Coalition on Information Literacy Advocacy
6. Collaborate where possible and appropriate with other associations or groups on information literacy related professional development activities.

These focus areas were identified by the 2002 survey of group members. Lesley indicated that she would contact Marie Murphy for an update on the current state of play of the IL advocacy.

Action: Lesley to contact Marie Murphy on the current state of the IL advocacy.

4. Helena on leave

Helena informed the committee that she will be on annual leave from the 6 September to the 11 October. During this period she will not be in the position to continue as e-list moderator. It was suggested that as Mark will be this year's forum moderator this might be a good opportunity for him to get acquainted with the functioning of the e-list. Helena will contact Mark to determine if he is willing to take this role on.

Action: Helena to contact Mark regarding the moderation of the group e-list during her annual leave.

5. Next meeting

4:00pm 12 October 2004.