Winter Meeting

The OWEAC winter meeting will be held in Roseburg at Umpqua Community College on Friday, February 4. More details to come. Members, please do go to the wiki to look at/change the agenda.

If you are looking for accommodations, some of us will be staying at the Comfort Inn on Mulholland, across from Elmer’s Restaurant.

Draft Agenda

I’m posting the draft agenda on the wiki. Click on the link on the right side of this page to go to the wiki, then follow the instructions there to access the agenda and edit the document.

Updated Info for Fall meeting

From Caroline:

I have just learned, rather belatedly, that there are NO rooms available on the Cascade Campus on Friday October 9th –enrollment is up 20% and apparently every serviceable space is being pressed into use. SO….I have scheduled a room for us on the Sylvania Campus.

MEETING LOCATION:
Oak Room in the CC Building, Sylvania Campus (Oak Room is located inside the main cafeteria)
Here’s the site for maps and location information: http://www.pcc.edu/location/

PARKING and TRANSPORTATION
To get a PCC parking permit contact Cherie Mass-Anderson at cmaas@pcc.edu. Tell her you need a permit for the OWEAC meeting on Oct 9th, and if you want permit for Saturday and Sunday for the TYCA conference, she can get you a permit for all three days (valid at all the campuses). Also PCC operates a free shuttle service between campuses, so anyone coming for the TYCA conference and staying near the Cascade campus can use the shuttle

HOTELS and LODGING
If you’re coming for TYCA, you’ve probably already booked at the Red Lion, which is the official hotel for the conference. Or if you want to be close to the Cascade Campus, I recommend the Kennedy School, one of the McMenamin’s hotels.

If you’re just coming for OWEAC and want a place nearby the Sylvania Campus, which is South of downtown, the best bet for close by is Hosptality Inn: 10155 SW Capitol Hwy, Portland, OR 97219 (503) 244-6684. Closest, and cheap–starts at $62–and by all accounts decent. Includes breakfast, and there are a couple good restaurants (Japanese, Thai) within walking distance.

There are a cluster of hotels about 4 miles south on I-5 at the Kruse Way Exit in Lake Oswego. There are also quite a few restaurants in this area. Here’s two, but there are others in the same location, a little spendier.
Phoenix Inn Suites: 14905 Bangy Rd, Lake Oswego, OR 97035 (503)-624-7400
From $99
Fairfield Inn: 6100 Southwest Meadows Road, Lake Oswego, OR 97035 (503) 670-7557
From $99

Let me know if you need further directions or information. My email is caroline.leguin@pcc.edu.



2009-2010 Meeting Dates

Here are the meeting dates for the 2009-10 academic year, reflecting recent changes:

Fall meeting will be held on October 9 at Portland Community College, Cascade Campus; this meeting coincides with the TYCA-PNW Conference.

Winter meeting will be held on February 5 at Umpqua Community College in Roseburg.

Spring Meeting will be held on May 7 at Portland State University, to coincide with the Oregon Rhetoric and Composition Conference.

Updated info on the May meeting from Doyne

Southern Oregon University and Rogue Community College will share in providing breakfast for the OWEAC members attending the spring meeting. And for those of you who need parking permits, we will also furnish those. I suggest those of you who are staying at The Flagship Inn park there and simply cross the street to the meeting place. Lunch is on your own; the food court is in the same building where we will be meeting (Stevenson Student Union Building). We will be greeted at the beginning of the meeting by Dr. Paul Steinle, Assistant Provost of SOU.
Best regards,
Doyne

Spring Meeting May 15 in Ashland

The next OWEAC meeting will be held on Friday, May 15, 2009 in Ashland. 

Information from Doyne (Monday, April 13th) 

Hello to OWEAC,

This is the first notice about the spring meeting on May 15 in Ashland at Southern Oregon University. 

 

 

Room Arrangements:

As you probably know, room arrangements are difficult in Ashland because of the Shakespeare Festival.  I have checked with several motels, and few have rooms. 

We’d like to have a head count, so if you know for sure you will attend, please let me know by return mail as soon as you can.

OWEAC meeting: February 6, 2009 @ Chemeketa Community College

The next OWEAC meeting is February 6, 2009 from 8:00 am – 3:30 pm at Chemeketa Community College in Salem, Oregon.

Meeting Information:

• Meeting Location: Board Room, Building 2, Room 170
• Coffee and Breakfast will be ready by 8:00am
• Greeting by Don Brase, Associate Dean of Humanities at Chemeketa, and Patrick Lanning, Dean of Instruction
• Agenda TBA
• Lunch: participants may purchase lunch from the cafeteria in building 2 and bring food back to the Board Room to eat
• Dinner Thursday
• Maps, Location and Directions to Chemeketa
• Things to do in Salem (something from the VR Summit)

Oregon Information Literacy Summit, Nov. 21, 2008

What: The Oregon Information Literacy Summit
When: November 21, 2008
Where: Oregon State University, CH2M Alumni Center
Location and parking info: http://www.osualum.com/s/359/index.aspx?sid=359&gid=1&pgid=285 .
RSVP/register: go to http://blogs.library.oregonstate.edu/ilsummitmburke2@chemeketa.edu or 503.365-4711.

The Oregon Information Literacy Summit is a day for conversation about Information Literacy standards and practices in community colleges and four-year institutions. The Summit provides an opportunity for librarians and other faculty from across the state to share and generate ideas about IL instruction and practices. The 2008 Summit will include updates on several cooperative initiatives, a discussion of licensing materials for sharing, and activities focused on incorporating IL into writing courses, tutorials, and disciplines.  We encourage you to bring a partner! If you are a librarian, consider inviting someone from your writing faculty or from another discipline who would like to be an IL partner. Space is limited, so please RSVP soon. If you have questions about the program or logistics of the Summit, or if you need help registering, please contact Michele Burke at

Program
8:30 – 9:00 am Registration coffee and tea (will be available throughout the morning)
9:00 – 9:30 am Welcome & updates
9:30 – 10:30 am Panel discussion – collaborative IL models
10:30 – 11:30 am Breakout sessions – institutional collaboration
11:30 – 12:00 noon Presentation: sharing materials and licensing
12:00 – 1:00 pm Lunch
1:00 – 2:00 pm Presentations on classroom practices & screencasting
2:00 – 3:00 pm Breakout sessions on classroom practice
3:00 – 4:00 pm Future of the IL Summit and next steps

Hope to see you there!
~ The 2008 Oregon Information Literacy Planning Committee

The Cooperative Library Instruction Project

I’ll post updates about the Cooperative Library Instruction Project as it develops. I hope your input will shape the vision and realization of this project! Below is the project overview from the handout I distributed at the fall OWEAC meeting in Bend. Although it has only been a short time since we met, my concept of this project has morphed and I think changing vision will be the norm for awhile. I’m looking forward to hearing your thoughts and will put out a more formal call for ideas soon. ~Michele

Cooperative Information Literacy Project

Goal: Create a collection of information literacy tutorials that may be shared by Orbis Cascade Alliance institutions and eventually non-Alliance members.

Funding: The LSTA grant proposal has been selected for funding pending board approval, which happens sometime in October. The board has never rejected a proposal that has been recommended for approval, so the Project Team is moving forward with initial implementation work.

Project Team: Liaisons from four Oregon Cascade Alliance member institutions (Chemeketa Community College, Western Oregon University, Oregon State University, and Willamette University) plus a Project Coordinator to be hired pending final approval.

Have Your Say: Which tutorials are most needed? If only ten tutorials are created- which ones should they be? What is not needed? What’s missing that should be considered? What should the Project Team know going into this effort? Who else should be involved? How should we collect, add, and make available tutorials and materials that have already been created?

Information Literacy resources posted

I added 3 links to the OWEAC Resource page.

To find them, click on the Resource tab above, scroll down until you see the Information Literacy heading. There is a link to the Oregon Information Literacy Summit site,a link to the poster version of Information Literacy proficiencies with examples, and a link to the non-poster version of the Information Literacy proficiencies with examples.

Cheers!
~Michele