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7 Coming Back Together

After working in individual tracks for 12 weeks, COPALI leaders wanted to bring everyone together to bookend the asynchronous experience. This meeting was held at the University of Rochester in the Rush Rhees Library. The purpose of this event was to help each other summarize their thinking, learn about the activities in the other tracks, and then start planning individual projects for the fall based on participation in the institute.

Agenda for Coming Back Together

June 30, 2023

Time Event
10:00 – 10:30  Introductions & Recap from Track Moderators
10:30 – 11:15  Breakouts per track (Hawkins Carlson, Suite A, Suite B)
  1. What worked?
  2. What didn’t work?
  3. How do we move forward from here?
11:15 – 11:30 Break
11:30 – 12:15 Marketing Workshop (from Saunders & Wong, 2020)
12:15 – 1:00 Lunch
1:00 – 2:30 Jigsaw Activity
  • Prompt 1: Take 5 minutes to skim through what you’ve covered thus far in your track and select at least 3 important takeaways from your track.  Share outs: Take 5 minutes to share and explain the take aways to the other members of your group.  As you share and listen, fill out the table about what is similar across the three tracks or ideas for how these elements can complement one another within a library instruction session.
  • Prompt 2: As a group, select one course descriptions and create a pitch for library instruction to the course instructor that folds in elements from all three tracks [EBP, DV and OER]. Use the elements developed on your comparison table from prompt 1 to help create your pitch.
2:30 – 3:30 Making a Plan

Create a plan or instructional activity for the change you’d like to make as a result of this institute! Your plan could be:

  • Specific to one class / one lesson / one teaching asset
  • Something you’re going to do across all your classes
  • Something internal to your library/campus
  • Anything you can think up!
3:30 – 4:15 Gallery Walk of Tentative Plans – feedback, suggestions for success
  • Talkers will “present” their idea to a Walker(s) for 2 minutes
  • Walkers will give feedback and ask clarifying questions to help solidify the Talker’s plan for 3 minutes
  • Walkers will move to the next Talker and repeat (3x)
  • Groups will switch – Talkers become Walkers and Walkers become Talkers
5:00 – 6:00 Mount Hope Cemetary Historical Walking Tour
6:30 Group Dinner

Tentative Plan Examples

Collage of giant post it notes with details for project plans.