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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.5pt">Hello everyone!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.5pt">For those who were able to join us last Friday at TCC for the September COIL meeting, thank you for attending - it was good to see you! For those who were unable to join us, you are still able to view the Emaze
slideshow, shared by our TCC and NSU librarians on the topic of Assessment in Action from ACRL. Their presentation slides are available via the COIL website under the Minutes tab, found within the September 30 agenda. (<a href="http://coil.okacrl.org/minutes/" target="_blank">http://coil.okacrl.org/minutes/</a>)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.5pt">Looking ahead to a couple of noteworthy items for October...<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.5pt">1.) <u>Officer Nominations</u><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.5pt">We currently are in need of volunteers to serve as next year's COIL leaders. The current open positions are:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.5pt">Vice Chair/2018 Chair Elect<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.5pt">If you are interested in volunteering, or know of a member of COIL who is interested in serving, please e-mail me directly (<a href="mailto:burkhead@nsuok.edu" target="_blank">burkhead@nsuok.edu</a>) by Wednesday,
October 19. Shortly thereafter I will send out an anonymous Google form/poll for you to cast your vote and the results will be announced Friday, November 11, at OK-ACRL. (Speaking of which, registration is now open and calls for proposals are still being accepted! <a href="http://www.okacrl.org/" target="_blank">http://www.okacrl.org/</a>)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.5pt">2.) <u>October Meeting/Book Club</u><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.5pt">Our October meeting will take place Friday, October 28 at 2:00 p.m., and is another online book club which will take place via Zoom. We will discuss <i>Teaching Information Literacy Threshold Concepts: Lesson
Plans for Librarians </i>eds. Bravender, McClure, & Schaub. There are six broad chapters, one for each of the new threshold concepts: Scholarship as Conversation, Research as Inquiry, Authority is Constructed and is Contextual, Information Creation as a Process,
Searching as Strategic Exploration, and Information Has Value. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.5pt">If you would like to lead a brief discussion about a lesson plan from one of these six portions of the book, please let me know!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.5pt">Or, if you're simply interested in participating in the online meeting, also please let me know. I'll send out the link to the Zoom video conferencing session the morning of October 28 for you to join the 2:00
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.5pt">I hope to hear from you all soon with officer nominations and a willingness to help share during our upcoming book club!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.5pt">Thank you!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;color:#888888">Sarah<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#888888">Sarah Burkhead Whittle<br>
Instructor of Library Services ~ Resource Coordinator, College of Education</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#888888">Community of Oklahoma Instruction Librarians, Chair 2016<br>
</span><span style="font-size:9.5pt;color:#888888">Northeastern State University</span><span style="color:#888888"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#888888">Tahlequah, OK 74464<br>
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<a href="mailto:burkhead@nsuok.edu" target="_blank">burkhead@nsuok.edu</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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