Alison Hitchens, Judy McTaggart, Leeanne Romane (recorder), Jackie Stapleton (Chair), Margaret Yuen, Jonathan Sutherland.
The committee welcomed new member Jonathan Sutherland to the committee. Jonathan’s term on the committee will be until June 2008, at least.
The committee was informed that Leeanne Romane is taking a temporary leave from the committee, due to a special project. Leeanne will return to active membership upon completion of the special project.
The minutes were approved without changes.
No additional agenda.
In regards to the Collection Development training currently being provided to new librarians, there was a question about Cognos Training – who is doing the training and when is it being offered? This information isn’t available yet, but the committee will be notified when training is offered.
Action: Margaret will post on the committee site the details of the Collection Development Training.
Porter Co-op Position: Kathleen Oakey. Her position is a 4 month posting and her training schedule is posted on the training site under Current Training. All of the training sessions have been scheduled and she is expected to be finished her training by the beginning of February. She begins working on the Information Desk at Porter in February and will have to begin shadowing on the desk by the last week of January.
Porter Cataloguers: news had circulated that the cataloguers who work the Davis information desk will also receive training on the Porter desk. This has not been yet been approved by the Cataloguing department head. There is also some confusion about this decision and the schedule, training, location and expectation of these cataloguers. Further inquiries would be directed to the ISR managers, and no training will be scheduled for the cataloguers until further direction is received.
The expected future hires for the library are: Optometry and Math/Physics. There is no indication at this time when these positions will be filled, but the committee felt it important to be aware of the pending training needs.
A number of spotlight sessions have been proposed:
• Knovel – aiming for a February session and primary audience is Davis.
Action: Leeanne will contact Knovel about providing training.
• CSA Standards Online – this is a new product that isn’t quite up and running yet, but want to offer a session on it fairly soon. Possibly of interest to all of ISR.
Action: Jonathan will convene this session; he will contact Doug Morton about providing the training.
• Springer E-books – session in late January or February, for all of ISR
Action: Jackie will convene this session.
• New A-Z list from Verde – offered to all library staff, and will be scheduled once the system is up and running.
Action: Alison will convene this session.
• Library Press Display – offered to all of ISR.
Action: Margaret will convene this session; she will contact Jane Forgay about providing the training.
• Web of Science – offered to all of ISR
Action: Margaret will convene this session; she will contact Doug Morton.
• LexisNexis Academic – offered to all ISR
Action: Judy will check with Sandra
Convenors will make initial contact with proposed trainers and will report at next meeting.
It was noted that offering these spotlights at 9:30am would allow the cataloguers to attend.
Action: Margaret will contact Peggy from ChIP to request an electronic version of the handout provided in recent CHIP spotlight.
Jonathan will take over the monitoring responsibilities from Leeanne.
Proposed EI sessions are:
• Troubleshooting Techniques for Wireless Networks
February 7, 2008
• Virtual Reference Competencies: Acquire and Improve technical skills and knowledge
February 29, 2008
• Virtual Reference Competencies: Practice and expand communications skills and
knowledge
March 14, 2008
Action: Jackie will inform Chat Group that the Virtual Reference sessions are being offered.
Alison has prepared a preliminary version of the Start of Term FAQ. There were questions about the purpose of the document and its placement. Suggestions for placement were: post a training-style document on the training site, and post an easily accessible word-document version on the ‘At the Info Desk’ page.
Action: Alison will email the document to ISR staff and ask for feedback. She will also ask Val to add the link to the “At the Info Desk” page.
Action: Judy will add the session to the Porter Co-op student’s training schedule.
This topic is to be added to the agenda for the February 13, 2008 meeting.
The next meeting is scheduled for January 23, 2008.
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