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Information Services Delivery Training Committee

ISR Training Committee
Meeting Minutes
May 14, 2009
2:00-3:00 p.m.
Porter 

 

Present:

Alison Hitchens, Connie Kovac (recorder) Martha Lauzon, Judy McTaggart, Carol Steele, Margaret Yuen (facilitator)

1)  Approval of minutes of April 21, 2009.
The minutes were approved.

2)  Additional agenda
None

3)  Business arising
None

4) Web 2.0 - Evaluation (Alison)

Forty-two people signed up, 31 finished the evaluation, and 15 people responded. All the feedback was good.

Alison was asked about doing Web 2.0 for Acquisitions. She will speak with Sharon Lamont to see if this is something to do in the future.

Suggestions of where we go from here with Web 2.0. Since we had asked if people were interested in learning more about Web 2.0, it was suggested that we will consider more training next year. More will be discussed at a later date.

5) Training New Staff Members

There is no specific schedule yet for Cornelia, however she will be joining the other two new staff members for generic sessions.

She is still doing quite a bit of catalogue training, so it was requested that she not be over scheduled. She can start subject training when her generic sessions are done. She should be ready to train at the latest in mid June to be ready for the Davis Reference Desk by Fall.

Carol has most sessions scheduled for Kristen and Larisa. There are only a few still to pin down. Kristen is to shadow next week and will be ready to be scheduled for the desk in June.

A master checklist for Training Schedule would be helpful.

Kathy Szigeti suggested in the training evaluation that job specific sessions such as e-journals, acquisitions be scheduled before more general sessions like systems and archives.

6) ISR Training Retreat 2009 - Wrap up.

Sessions/lunch -evaluation

All the sessions were well received. The feedback was interesting, there was no negative feedback. The only problem people encountered was insufficient time for travel between the morning sessions.

The total spent on lunch to feed 38 people came to $298.90.

Committee members had heard from other staff members that these retreats should be library wide, rather than for Reference Desk people only. Margaret will take this concern to Susan Routliffe.

Notes and comments on the evaluation forms should be shared with the session presenter.

Information Desk Scheduling

Both Davis and Porter Desks were staffed throughout the Training Retreat.

Thank You Notes

Judy, Margaret and Martha have sent out the Thank You notes. Margaret also took care of gifts for the off campus presenters.

Committee Recommendations for Next Year

More time between sessions.

We had two concurrent sessions and some people were interested in attending all the sessions.

7) Spotlights/Training Sessions

Tentative date for the next Spotlight is June 26. Graphics will do this spotlight for us.

8) EI Institute (Kathy) - deferred

9) Membership

Judy's term is renewed for one more year on this committee. Alison will complete her term this August.

10) Vacation Schedules

Members are to let the Committee know when they are planning their vacation so that meetings can be scheduled accordingly.

11) Tasks to do: updating web sites etc. - deferred

12) Around the Table - nothing

                      

 

 

 

 

 


August 10, 2009