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ISR Training Committee

Meeting Minutes

September 10, 2009

1:30-3:00

Present: Martha Lauzon, Kathy MacDonald (chair), Judy McTaggart, Carol Steele (recorder)

Approval of the minutes of August 20, 2009.

Minutes were approved with minor changes to #4 & 8, plus addition of the following in #5: Conference proceedings--Project team includes Kathy MacDonald, Laura Howell and Kristen Jensen. Phase I -- Kristen did a literature search to determine if there is any research about teaching users how to find conference proceedings and what works best.

Plus addition to #5 of Theatre in Video.

Additional agenda.

None

Business arising.

5. Turnitin and UWACE: Kathy has asked Mary Powers if someone in CTE or UWACE can talk about Turnitin; Kathy is waiting to hear back.

Cross-training for Porter/Davis/chat ref: Kathy will talk to Doug and get more details so that we can promote the session.

9. Membership list has been updated.

Questions used in subject training sessions: Martha and Carol have posted all training questions submitted to SharePoint; they will touch bases with liaison librarians who have not submitted questions in case the latter have something to submit. Liaison librarians could tag “interesting question” on LibQuest when they record consultation statistics.

ACTION: At the next Davis ISR meeting, Kathy will raise the idea of creating a pool of questions to train new hires, for use when portfolio changes, to test oneself, for cross-training; Carol will mention the same at a Porter ISR meeting; Martha will ask Jonathan if referral & consultation look the same on LibQuest.

Training New Staff Members
Carol reported that Kristen Jensen & Larisa Smyk are working at the Information Desk and have completed their training.
Martha reported that Cornelia Tiba is on the desk as of this week; Web of Science/Scopus and Recreation training are outstanding.

Spotlights/Training Sessions
Kathy MacDonald will follow up with Doug in regard to cross-training for Porter/Davis/chat ref; a session has been scheduled for October 9th.
ARES spotlight is a go for Sept. 18
Theatre in Video: Martha will convene this session, possibly for October.

Staff survey—finalize draft, plan distribution and summarization.

The group reviewed and revised the survey; survey will be due Oct. 2, with a reminder Sept. 25th.

ACTION: Kathy will make the corrections. Judy will use last year’s cover letter as template for this year; Judy will distribute the survey in hard copy and ask that completed surveys be returned to her.

Tasks to do:
Updating website—Judy and Carol continue to work on this.
Ongoing list of potential future Spotlight topics on SharePoint.

Martha will create a list when she creates a subsite for the committee.

Next meeting is September 24, 2009 in Davis 1568.

September 1, 2009

Information Services Delivery Training Committee