meetings

Wed, Sept 15th, 8pm ET/7pm CT/6pm MT/5pm PT
 * Skype Meeting**

__Agenda__
 * 1) Review and discuss the building-level survey
 * 2) Discussion of questions and points on TitanPad: @http://titanpad.com/LpMtQUx4qp
 * 3) Review and discuss the administrator survey. (Jeff)
 * 4) Discussion of questions and points on TitanPad: @http://titanpad.com/mN5nQtOr6c
 * 5) Make dissemination plans for both surveys.

Thurs, Aug 5th, 8pm ET/7pm CT/6pm MT/5pm PT
 * Skype Meeting**

__Agenda__
 * 1) Review and discuss topics for administrator survey
 * 2) Develop plan to complete draft of library administrator survey
 * 3) Update from Sally on contact list and plans for further development
 * 4) Update on building level survey and feedback from group

__Minutes__:
 * __Attendees__: Jeremy Dunn, Sally Daniels, Jeff DiScala, Barb Stripling, Lisa Perez
 * We examined the topics for the administrator's survey and made adjustments by narrowing down some topics and expanding others. We kept a focus on the questions that would best provide us with information for our charge to ultimately identify to AASL the needs of large urban districts. (See our TitanPad for edits.)
 * Jeff will create a draft of the survey for committee review based on these recommendations.
 * Sally will email a group of directors provided by Ann Weeks. She will email the group the draft message and send in the next week or so. Later, she will contact the persons who do not respond to the email to check contact information and notify the committee, if she needs assistance.
 * Lisa and Shari-Ruth will create a draft survey for the committee's review.
 * The committee will plan to meet again in early Sept in Skype.


 * Interim Work - July, 2010**

Look at this list of topics for the administrator survey and post your feedback on the Titanpad.



__Face-to-Face Meeting at ALA__ Sunday, June 27, 3pm - 4pm at Renaissance Hotel Discussion leader - Jeremy Dunn

__Minutes__
 * Attendees: Sally Daniels, Jeff DiScala, Jeremy Dunn, Irene Kwidzinski, Shari-Ruth Goodwin, Barb Stripling, Ann Weeks
 * Our meeting goal was to plan the large city directors survey.
 * Ann Weeks noted the most challenging task will be to actually locate library directors. Titles and organizational structure will vary from district to district. Library directors - or the administrators who play that role -- are not always visible from outside that district.
 * Ann W. will provide an existing database of directors. Sally Daniels will begin work on a contact list using this database. As discussed in the June 15 meeting, the plan is to focus of CGCS schools. Based on Sally's work, we will further discuss the final list of school districts to target.
 * The group brainstormed the topics/issues that are relevant to urban library directors. (Jeff kept the detailed list.) We discussed these issues further to identify overlaps. Jeff will further refine these topics and present a suggested list of topics at our next meeting that will be the survey's focus.
 * It was emphasized that the survey needs to be short enough that directors will complete it. It will be important to carefully select the most important issues/questions to include on the survey.
 * We discussed a timeline for proceeding:
 * July - Jeff will present topics at our next meeting (not yet scheduled)
 * August - Survey will be built and contact list will be developed
 * September - Pilot the survey
 * October - Survey conducted for Directors (This may be the same month that building-level survey is conducted)
 * Shari-Ruth G. volunteered to work with Lisa Perez on building level survey.

__Skype Meeting__: Tues, June 15 8 pm ET/7pm CT/6pm MT/5pm PT

__Minutes__
 * Attendees: Lisa Perez, Sally Daniels, Jeff DiScala, Jeremy Dunn, Shari-Ruth Goodwin
 * See our Titan pad at @http://titanpad.com/P6QDOG1Rve for more detailed meeting notes
 * We reviewed some research and literature related to large urban districts, as listed at this wiki.
 * We discussed difficulties in defining "urban districts". We are leaning toward the Council of Great City Schools list and especially want to examine the overlapping 20 - 25 districts that are also on the NCES list.
 * Jeff will take the lead on developing a more scientific survey to be administered to our urban directors in August/Sept. At our committee meeting at ALA, the main topic of discussion will be the development of that survey.
 * Lisa will take the lead on developing a survey to be sent to urban school-level librarians in September.
 * During the meeting, we also discussed major issues that we anticipate being flagged by survey respondents. These are listed on the Titan pad.
 * Lisa followed up with Barb Stripling after the meeting in Skype. (Connectivity issues prevented her from joining the meeting.) Barb shared the idea of tying a portion of the school survey to the "5 Keys to Urban School Success". She shared that August might be a preferred time to survey urban directors.
 * We will have another Skype meeting in July to follow up.
 * ALA attendees mentioned that they would like to try to meet on Sunday afternoon since they cannot attend the Monday meeting. Use this poll to share ALL of your availability on Sunday, June 27

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__Agenda__: 1. Overview important research related to urban school libraries. 2. Build important ideas at @http://titanpad.com/P6QDOG1Rve 3. Plan for survey development (questions? who will we survey? contact info?), hosting platform, timeline

__Skype Meeting__: Tuesday, April 20, 2010 8 pm ET/7pm CT/6pm MT/5pm PT

__Agenda__: 1. Introductions 2. Review wiki: our charge and functions 3. Research: (District level - Jeffrey DiScala) 4. Research: (School level) 5. Survey needs 6. Next meeting

__Minutes__:

__Attendees__: Lisa Perez, Jeremy Dunn, Jeff DiScala, Sally Daniels, Irene Kwidzinski

1. Attendees introduced themselves to the committee. 2. We overviewed the taskforce's charge and functions 3. We discussed a plan of action to fulfill these goals. We determined to the following broad timeline: 4. Our next skype meeting will be in May (date to be announced).
 * __April/May__: (a) Gather research related to school librarianship in large urban districts. Jeff has agreed to take a lead on this with taskforce members contributing. We will compile this information on the research page of this wiki. Although our big push will be through May, we can continue to add research information through the course of the taskforce work. (b) Develop a working definition of "urban school districts". Jeff mentioned that one definition can be to use the 100 largest school districts as defined by the US Dept of Education. Jeff and Jeremy also mentioned another definition could be to use the 141 school districts that are members of the Council of Great City Schools - Great Library Network. Jeff agreed to contact the CGCS to get more information about their definition and to explore synergy between our work.
 * __June/July__: (a) Build two surveys to collect information to inform our work. One survey will target building-level librarians working in urban districts and the other will target library administrators in large urban districts. We will build our survey questions in this wiki and Jeff will help us finalize the survey in a way that can give us the best results for later analysis. If the IMLS grant proposal that he and Ann Weeks have submitted is accepted, the administrator survey can also be designed in a way that informs their work. (Their survey results will come after the completion of this taskforce's work, but we can point to it for future guidance.) (b) Those who are at the ALA Conference will meet to discuss taskforce work to-date. Jeremy will take the lead on organizing that meeting.
 * __August__: hiatus/vacation
 * __Sept/Oct__: (a) Develop up-to-date contact and distribution lists. Promote the survey broadly. (b) Focus on building Essential Links.
 * __Nov__: Analyze and summarize survey results
 * __Dec__: Create a document for AASL which includes (a) an brief overview of the state of our urban district library systems to include our working definition, (b) a summary of survey results, and (c) recommended strategies that AASL can take to support urban school libraries.
 * __Jan__: Submission of report to AASL at ALA Mid-Winter