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Information Services Delivery Training Committee

ISR Training Committee
Meeting Minutes
26 March 2008

Present: Jackie Stapleton (chair), Alison Hitchens (recorder), Margaret Yuen, Judy McTaggart, Jonathan Sutherland

1. Approval of Minutes of Mar. 12th, 2008

Approved.

2. Additional agenda

Dates of future meetings added as agenda item 8.

3. Business arising

None.

4. Spotlights (updates)

a. CSA Standards:

This has been rescheduled for prior to the April 11 ISR meeting

b. Lexis Nexus:

Sandra's spotlight had 19 people in attendance and received good feedback.

c. Proquest trainer:

A trainer from Proquest requested to come on April 24th.  This may be a busy time of year for ISR Porter due to the renovations. Margaret will ask the trainer if she is available for April 29th, otherwise we may reschedule for October.

Action: Margaret will contact trainer about April 29th session.

5. Training Retreat (Tuesday April 29th)

a. CINAHL:

Action: Jackie will send a session description to Alison for the training day program.

b. 2nd session:

We had a good suggestion re: e-book platforms but no trainer for it. We will pursue the following options instead:

  1. Proquest/CSA trainer
  2. Government Publications
  3. Collection of 4 spotlights

Action: Margaret will contact the Proquest trainer (action under 4c). If unavailable, Margaret will approach Christy Sich.

c. Lunch:

Judy is looking at several catering options. We will need to purchase plates and napkins but can borrow table cloths from the Davis library. We will need to organize room set-up on training day.

d. Roundtable:

Margaret has selected a 10 minute section from the reference interview DVD for discussion and will also present a couple of case studies. The discussions will take place in small groups.

Action: Margaret will test the DVD in the conference room before the training day. Margaret will select an additional case study.

e. Speaker:

Alison received a description of the session for the program. The speaker will start at 2:15.

Action: Alison will confirm the 2:15 start time with Greg.

f. Webpage:

Alison is continuing work on the Retreat webpage at http://www.lib.uwaterloo.ca/staff/isrtrain/sessions/retreats/2008/retreat2008.html

Action: Jackie and Margaret will send descriptions of their sessions and Judy will send a brief description of lunch to Alison for the program.

g. Finalize program:

We should finalize the program by April 4th and send it to participants by April 7th.

Action: Alison will send out the final program on April 7th.

h. Desk schedule on training day:

We will try to have the desk closed on training day, otherwise we will need to create a special schedule for that day.

Action: Jackie will e-mail Shabiran and Jennifer requesting the closure of the Information Desks on April 29th from 9:30-3:30.

6. Changing name of ISR Training Retreat

Michele Laing asked if we could rename the event to be more inclusive because we invite staff from other areas (e.g. information desk staff from UML and Architecture). We will rename the event "Training Retreat" and state that it is sponsored by the ISR Training Committee.

Action: Jackie will respond to Michele's e-mail.

7. Committee minute webpage:

Jonathan created a help page on posting and naming minutes for the website to fix inconsistencies in the presentation of minutes. The Committee will use this format for all of its minutes.

8. Dates of future meetings:

The next meetings will be April 9th, April 23rd, May 14th, May 28th.

Action: Alison will book rooms for these meetings.

 


July 19, 2011