Scenario II

The First Meeting

Pat and James welcomed the area librarians, circulated agendas and a signup sheet and passed out the latest documents posted to the web site. James had brought some city and county data he had gotten from the new census data and several local directories from several bureaus around town. (He felt these could provide some ideas and names and addresses.)

Pat presented an overview of the "goal of an information literate community" and took questions and answers on what the group had seen on the website. James did a "reality check" of the group to see if this was an idea they wanted to pursue and why and then led a brainstorming session of what size group was needed, the group members or other "players" and stakeholders who needed to be in on basic planning and finished with a discussion on dates when people could meet next. 

This group made several decisions:

1. They did want to better inform and provide a mechanism for educating a larger group on the importance of information literacy.

2. They were hopeful that, once educated, a larger group would see the value of discussing what their community was doing and what they could do in the future to ensure an information literate community.

3. They decided they did NOT want, at this time, to talk money or final process as that needed to be a larger group effort.

The group adjourned with each member taking four names of people to contact, a list of sites to look at and a worksheet for putting goals and ideas down for sharing on their local e-list.