See attachment for better formatting. We will print out to distribute at the meeting. Distributing to CET committee members and Chair (Ex Officio) in preparation for the meeting; others as a courtesy; all welcome to attend Curriculum/Ed Tech Committee Meeting March 18, 2015 (rescheduled from 3-5-15 due to snow) Draft Agenda 11:30 p.m. 1. Call to order 2. Approval of agenda 3. Approval of draft minutes of Curriculum/Ed Tech Committee, February 5, 2015 4. Update on MLS/MA joint degree program—including handling of HIST 722: History of the Book course—enrollment by GSLIS students 5. Discussion of summer internships 6. Syllabus issues a. Approval of minor change of course description of LBSCI 721: Advanced Technical Services--—approved by email by CET & full faculty; sent to GCC 3-9-15 b. Change in course name and description for LBSCI 734: Art Librarianship to Art Librarianship & Visual Resources Curatorship due to revision of course and expanded emphasis, requested by Prof. Suzanna Simor; minor changes suggested by R. Brody (original revision first, followed by edited version (removes “electronic and print”, substitutes “users” for “patrons”)-- —approved by email by CET & full faculty; sent to GCC 3-9-15 c. Request for approval of new course: LBSCI 790: Exploring and Understanding Comics in Libraries (L. Cedeira Serantes); see attachments) d. Printing of 2015 course listings/Graduate Bulletin & pre-reqs/co-reqs e. Clerical errors found for course pre-/co-reqs on CUNYFirst (LBSCI 752, possibly others 7. Formal change in title of the Certificate in Archives and Preservation of Cultural Materials; still listed as Certificates in Archives, Records Management and Preservation in Registrar and Grad Admissions 8. Distribution of “Areas of Concentration” document for Advisement purposes? 9. Software issues relating to student access to Office 365 in the Cloud and longer-term issues of faculty access to same version of s/w as students—(status of follow-up with CIO Claudia Colber) 10. Update on responses to Committee suggestions re: handling of LBSCI 752: Digital Preservation (from C. Cool) 11. Planning for future curriculum needs; see http://americanlibrariesmagazine.org/2015/02/26/the-future-of-mls/ a. “The nature of information is changing. Being data and information literate (analytics, visualization, curation) will be critical to success in education, employment, and everyday life.” b. Proposal for a course in Data Curation? 12. Other issues 13. Next meeting? 14. Move to adjourn CETagenda31215.docx Appendices: HIST722 syllabus LBSCI 790: Exploring and Understanding Comics Prereq attachment Areas of concentration attachment Hard copy attachments relating to Archives Certificate Draft minutes of Feb 5 meeting (CET)