Student Success Working Group, 16 February 2018

In attendance:

• Christine Burns, BC Libraries Coop
• James Fournie, Vancouver Community College
• Ron Gagnon, NOBLE
• Anna Goben, Evergreen Indiana
• Joan Kranich, C/W MARS
• Adrian Mitescu, University Canada West
• Sue Morin, College of the Rockies
• Cortney Newton, College of the Rockies
• Jane Sandberg, Linn-Benton Community College
• Elizabeth Thomsen, NOBLE

• We adopted the following statement of our role:
  • The Student Success Working Group shares information, performs assessment, and provides direction related to meeting student needs using Evergreen, with a particular focus on the needs of primary, secondary, and post-secondary students.
• One question that came up was how much impact this group will have in order to effect software development.

We added and prioritized items on our list of Current priorities.

• We will meet quarterly, using zoom.

• Discussion about how to update the list of evergreen libraries
• Discussion about how to reach out to other academic and school libraries
• What is the role of an ILS/OPAC in an article-centric college environment?
• Creative ways to support information literacy goals using Evergreen?
• Has anybody been following development in Folio, OPALS, or student support-related features in Koha?
• What are the needs of students outside the U.S. and Canada?

• Elizabeth will find a place for our group at the Evergreen conference (perhaps a lightning talk or lunch)
• Jane will report back to the Evergreen Community about this meeting