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Gslisadjuncts Student Learning Outcomes (SLOs) Assessment
by Kwong-Bor Ng 17 May '16

17 May '16

Dear Colleagues, As mentioned in the faculty meeting, we are going to assess student learning outcome (SLO) of our courses again at the end of this semester using the same tool we used in the last semester, by asking instructor of each class to fill in an online excel form. Just like last semester, you will receive an individual link, pointing to an online excel file, with the names of students of your class already filled in. An example of the excel file is attached with this email. GSLIS has 9 SLO (I.e, A1, A2, B, C, D, E, F, G, H). They are listed on the second tab of your online excel form for your convenience. If a particular SLO is not intended to be covered by your class, please simply assign score 0, otherwise, the scores will be: Does not fulfill 1 Partially fulfill 2 Fully fulfill 3 The same instruction is also printed in the beginning of your online excel form. Please only assign scores to the two or three most important SLOs, no need to assign scores to SLOs that you deem minor for your course. I will send the links of the online excel forms to each instructor individually in a few minutes. Please fill in the form by the first weekend of June 2016 (I.e., Jun 5, 2016). Many thinks! Best regards, K.B. -- Kwong-Bor Ng, Ph.D. Vice Chair and Professor Graduate School of Library & Information Studies Queens College, City University of New York

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Gslisadjuncts Fw: New Course Evaluation System
by Colleen Cool 17 May '16

17 May '16

Faculty, See below for a new link to course evaluations. You can scroll through 2010-2015 data quite easily. Colleen ________________________________ From: qcchairs(a)googlegroups.com <qcchairs(a)googlegroups.com> on behalf of Mandana E Limbert <Mandana.Limbert(a)qc.cuny.edu> Sent: Tuesday, May 17, 2016 11:48 AM To: qcchairs(a)googlegroups.com Subject: New Course Evaluation System? Dear All, I may have missed a message along the way, but after wondering why nothing was available on the old site past Fall 2014 (https://apps.qc.cuny.edu/courses/) and struggling with yet another site (https://p5.courseval.net/etw/crseval.asp?i=23) I discovered that there is now a third site. Anyway, I thought that maybe others might also like to know that there is this new course evaluation system for us and our faculty to use: https://public.tableau.com/profile/emf5887#!/vizhome/qcevaluations/Evaluati… I should warn you, some faculty are also having trouble opening this site. Apologies, again, if there was a message sent around that I missed. Thanks, Mandana ________________________________ Chair and Associate Professor Department of Anthropology Queens College, CUNY Flushing, NY 11367-1597 718.997.5526 Associate Professor Ph.D. Program in Anthropology The CUNY Graduate Center 365 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10016-4309 -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "QCChairs" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to qcchairs+unsubscribe(a)googlegroups.com<mailto:qcchairs+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com>. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.

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Gslisadjuncts GSLIS Survey on communication options and online/hybrid courses
by Claudia Perry 11 May '16

11 May '16

Dear Colleagues, We are conducting an anonymous survey on students’ preferences regarding GSLIS communication options and online/hybrid coursework. Can you spare 5 minutes in your class and ask students to fill in the survey form: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1yMuR4P4yiqvAhxX_y9qCbvE-quYsQVR-pFfiVnyATn… ? We hope that you will ask students to complete in your class starting the week of May 2 (if you are in a lab setting) or distribute the link to them and ask them to complete it before Friday, May 13. Thank you in advance for your help! The Publication and Curriculum/Ed Tech Committees ------------- P.S. Please contact Claudia with any specific questions (c2perry(a)nyc.rr.com) Claudia A. Perry, MLS, Ph.D Associate Professor Director of Admissions Graduate School of Library and Information Studies Queens College, CUNY Flushing, NY 11367 claudia.perry(a)qc.cuny.edu 718-997-3790

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Gslisadjuncts May 18 7pm: Dr. Richard Cox lecture @ Queens College
by Johnathan Thayer 11 May '16

11 May '16

Dear Colleagues, Richard Cox (University of Pittsburgh School of Information Sciences) will be on campus Wednesday May 18th, and will deliver a lecture in RO300i at 7pm. There will be a lunch at the Faculty & Staff Club at around 12:30 or 1pm and light dinner ordered in at around 5:00-5:30pm. You are all welcome to participate in any and all of the events of the afternoon/evening! This is part of our ongoing collaboration with Robert Shaddy's Department of Special Collections and Archives and the Pine Tree Foundation. Johnathan Thayer Visiting Lecturer Coordinator of the Archives and Preservation of Cultural Materials Certificate Graduate School of Library and Information Studies Queens College, CUNY 718 997 3757 ________________________________ From: Johnathan Thayer Sent: Monday, May 9, 2016 9:41 AM To: saaqcny(a)googlegroups.com; glisann(a)lists.qc.cuny.edu Cc: Robert Shaddy Subject: May 18 7pm: Dr. Richard Cox lecture @ Queens College Hope to see you there for this event! -Prof. Thayer The Pine Tree Foundation Lecture Series in Archives and Special Collections Presents: "A Very Short Introduction to Archives" Dr. Richard J. ?Cox, University of Pittsburgh [X] A Collaborative Series Presented by the Queens College Libraries Department of Special Collections and Archives, the Queens College Graduate School of Library and Information Studies, and the Pine Tree Foundation Date/Time: Wednesday May 18, 2016 at 7pm Location: Rosenthal Library, Charles J. Tanenbaum Memorial Classroom (300i) Richard J. Cox is Professor, Archival Studies, in Library and Information Science at the University of Pittsburgh, School of Information Sciences. He has written extensively on archival, records management and historical topics. Dr. Cox was elected a Fellow of the Society of American Archivists in 1989 and has won the Waldo G. Leland Award for the best book on an archival topic in a given year three times. Recently he was named Chair of a new Department, the Department of Information Culture and Data Stewardship, duties he will undertake in mid-Summer. "A Very Short Introduction to Archives" For years, Oxford University Press has been publishing a series, Very Short Introductions, offering concise descriptions of a variety of fields and topics intended to be "trenchant and provocative" and "balanced and complete." Many of these brief volumes have reading guides to facilitate discussion. The series lacks a volume on Archives, the Archive, or Archiving, even though it has a number of titles closely related to this topic (including ones on museums and various documentary forms such as photography and film). What would such a volume include? What value would it have for the archival community? How could such a volume be used? This lecture considers these questions in the context of decades of archival advocacy efforts, major transformations from an analog to digital documentary world, a diversifying archival scholarship, intense debates about the archival mission, and a strengthened graduate education. The lecture also will reflect on why there is no volume on archives in this series. The Pine Tree Lecture Series takes up the archive as a central site of interdisciplinary intersections across academic communities and society. In response to the ever-expanding range of stakeholders in the fate and future of archives, this inaugural lecture is intended to be the first in a series of events that bring disparate individuals and departments together to discuss and reflect upon the impacts of archives on culture, society, and history.

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