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Information Services Delivery Training Committee

ISR Training Committee
Meeting Minutes
December 11, 2008
1:30 - 3:00 p.m.
Davis Conference Room

Present

Annie Belange, Alison Hitchens, Connie Kovac (recorder),Judy McTaggart, Carol Steele, Margaret Yuen (chair)

 

1) Approval of minutes November 13th, 2008

The minutes were approved.

 2) Additional agenda

None.

3) Business arising

Update on articles on staff training on You Tube for Reference Interviews. Alison updated us on this. She indicated that the amount of time it would take to see which interviews were good would be extrememly time consuming. Possibly if a person was more specific in their search it would yield better results.

Action: If anyone sees anything in the future, please let everyone know.

4) Training New Staff Members - Update

Agnes Kayko

Agnes is still shadowing. In January she will start on her own. Agnes will be questioned if there are changes to her schedule.

Kathy Szigeti

Kathy is still doing training, her shadowing will be done in January.

5) Spotlights

 Graphics/Copy Centre - Margaret called graphics, they would be willing to do a Spotlight the end of March or mid May.

Turnkey Desk - Carol has had no response from them, she will keep trying.

6) Web 2.0

 Article that Carol brought to our attention spoke about peer training, new technologies etc.

Annie commented on the Public Library of Charlotte who had peer to peer coaching; resources were there that people could go to when needed. People need to learn and become good at this, however workload has an impact on this. The question was raised; "Is there anything that management does not want us to use?"

Some things we need to include are the Map Library and the Church Colleges. There is a need to identify what would be appropriate and most beneficial to the library.

Carol will add a link on the staff folder so people can view and identify their choices.

7) Tasks to be done

EI Institute - not much to update. There will ba an audio conference on January 13th 2009 by Michael Stevens.

Web pages - review/update

Alison proposed a list of FAQs that happens every term. If it is created, who is to maintain it? Las year some of it was on WIKKI. At present it is not up to date.

Porter Info Desk Manual for General Reference - Carol and Judy will update this list.

Reviewing Linc Bot - Carol resolved all the issues from the last report

8) Around the Table

Margaret - Pauline, Sasa, and Co-op student are available for any tasks that people need to be done. Everyone is to let Margaret know by Monday of any project.

Annie - is shadowing at present to get a better sense of what our committee does. If there is a workload issue, she needs to be consulted. Annie would like the committee to let her know what role they would like to play.

 


December 23, 2008