Information Services Management Committee

Minutes of the Meeting February 1, 2000
1:30 - 3:30 p.m.
Porter 407

Present:
Marlene Laurence
Doug Morton
Susan Moskal
Maureen McCormack
Shabiran Rahman
Susan Routliffe (Chair)
Mary Stanley (Recorder)
Jackie Stapleton
Linda Teather

Absent:
Wish Leonard

Guests:
Members of the ISR Training Committee

  1. Minutes of the Meeting of January 18, 2000

    2. Approved with the following changes:

    Remove "Recorder" beside Susan Moskal’s name.

    Item #2 – delete 2nd sentence.

  2. Review Training Committee Terms of Reference with the Training Committee

    Members of the Training Committee joined the meeting for a discussion about their mandate. The latest draft of the Terms of Reference was circulated. A discussion ensued clarifying roles and responsibilities.

    Action: Susan R. will send out a message to all library staff announcing the formation of the Training Committee, its membership, and Terms of Reference.

  3. Web Page

    4. The committee agreed that we should inform staff about the newly created ISMC web page.

    Action: Susan R. will send a message to all staff.

  4. Continuation of Discussion about Relationship of ISR and Systems Department

    5. Feedback received from other members of the ISR department was presented and discussed. Susan Moskal will incorporate the suggestions into the document.

    Linda Teather summarised the meeting she conducted with the Systems department on January 11. This meeting focused on what was going well in the department, what was going not so well, and areas for improvement. Linda distributed notes from the Jan 11 meeting. The committee discussed the notes.

    Linda will begin the next meeting outlining the organisational structure of the systems department. We will then focus our discussion on ways of improving/enhancing communication.

    Susan R. suggested that once the resolutions/recommendations have been identified they would then be presented to the ISR and Systems departments for discussion and endorsement.

    Action: For the next meeting, Maureen agreed to compare/combine the notes from the Systems meeting with the document prepared by ISMC.

  5. Upcoming Topics for Discussion
    6.

5.1. Statistical information/reporting needs for Information Services

5.2 Review of the User Education Program