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Information Services Delivery Training Committee

ISR Training Committee
Meeting Minutes
January 22, 2009
1:30 - 3:00 p.m.
Davis Conference Room

Present

Alison Hitchens, Martha Lauzon (recorder), Kathy MacDonald, Judy McTaggart, Carol Steele, Margaret Yuen (chair)

1) Approval of minutes December 11, 2008

The minutes were approved.

 2) Additional agenda

10) Training Questions

3) Business arising

Pauline is working on the FAQ, and Aftad will help. Responsibility for the FAQ has been passed from the Training Committee to ISR, and eventually it will be removed from the Training Committee website, probably to SharePoint.

4) Training New Staff Members - Update

Agnes Kayko

Agnes is on the desk now as of the New Year, and will start with evening shifts in February. Carol will check whether there is still any training outstanding.

Kathy Szigeti

Kathy also started regular desk shifts at the beginning of January. She had back-up scheduled for the first two weeks, but feels confident enough now to do without. Martha will check her training schedule to see what's still left to do.

5) Spotlights

CRKN - 22 attended, 15 filled out evaluations. Of these, 15 said it was what they had hoped for, 14 said it was very helpful, and 1 said it was helpful. One comment asked for Susan's notes to be put up on the Training Committee website. Margaret will pass all comments to Susan.

Graphics/Copy Centre - No further update.

Turnkey Desk - Carol has talked to the Assistant Manager of the SLC, who wanted to talk to his boss, but has not got back to Carol. We will leave this one unless Carol hears back from someone.

Circulation Policy & Procedures - this will be tomorrow.

Social Theory - will the February 6th. Alison will send out an email on Monday.

EDS and Special Collections - Judy had been waiting for the date of the Turnkey spotlight to be finalized before making any firm plans. She will now proceed with booking these for mid-February or early March. However, Susan Mavor thinks 20 minutes is not sufficient, so Special Collections is a possibility for the training retreat.

From now on, we will put upcoming Spotlights on the the Training Committee website once they've been confirmed. If the date has not yet been fixed, we can still give a general time frame, e.g., mid-March.

6) EI Institute - Ten Trends and Technologies for 2009

25 people attended, and 13 filled out evaluation forms. Responses were evenly divided between "helpful" and "very helpful". Four people said it was not what they had been expecting. One person commented that it was "too theoretical", and another that there "might have been a round-table discussion after".

Alison reported that there was another coming up on April 9th, entitled Searching 2.0, which would tie in with our Web 2.0 training. Alison will co-ordinate the session. There was a discussion whether we could open it up to all information desk staff and perhaps people at the affiliated colleges.

Action: Margaret will pass it on to Annie for funding.

7) Web 2.0 update

Margaret brought the idea of Web 2.0 training up at the last ISR meeting, and there was much interest expressed. Tim, Nancy, Pauline, and Alison volunteered to put the training together. Alison will be chairing the group.

Annie suggested putting together a project plan, which Alison has made and put on SharePoint. The training will be for ISR and Information Desk staff, and possibly staff at the church colleges. If other managers are interested, they could use our materials to put their own training programmes together.

The group will try to make the training as relevant to reference as possible. There is a lot that can be copied from other sources and customized for UW. After a 20-minute "kick-off" session, the training will be self-directed and will cover blogs, RSS, social bookmarking, and wikis. They will try to arrange things so that it is finished by the end of April.

8) ISR Training Retreat, 2009.

The training retreat will be at the end of April. Margaret would like to get a lot of details worked out before the next meeting. She will consult Connie to find the notes from last year.

Possible topics were discussed:

  1. Special Collections: Judy will consult with Susan Mavor.
  2. Chemistry? People will ask at the next Porter ISR meeting about Porter-specific topics to be discussed concurrently with Chemistry.
  3. Visit to Perimeter Institute.
  4. Tour of OLRC. They will move in in late March or early April.
  5. Scholars Portal E-books. Annie and Jennifer might be able to provide some feedback on this.
  6. RefWorks: might not be appropriate.
  7. Roundtable discussion:
    • Web 2.0
    • Anything interesting that comes up at OLA.
    • Print vs Electronic
    • Nancy's poster session (Reaching Students in the Culture of Distraction)
    • Tagging

9) Tasks to be done

10) Training Questions

Carol will ask individual selectors at Porter whether they have any other training materials to add to our collection. Martha will do the same at Davis.

11) Around the table

Nothing.

 

 


December 23, 2008