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Information Services Delivery Training Committee

ISR Training Committee
Meeting Minutes

March 11, 2010
1:30 - 3:00 p.m.
Davis Conference Room


Present

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

1) Approval of minutes from February 24, 2010.

The minutes were approved with a couple of changes.

ACTION:  Carol will make the edits and post the minutes to the Staff Web.

2) Additional agenda

None

3) Business arising

None

4) Can You Find It (CYFI) challenge

  1. Tracking activity on blog: 9 comments so far.
  2. Posting of new questions and reminder emails
    i. We need to announce when new questions go up.
    ii. We need to remind people about the deadline, usually 1-2 days ahead.

The group agreed that the convener for the spotlight will be responsible for i and ii.

5) Spotlights/Training Sessions

a) GIS Spotlight, March 19th, Porter 428.  ACTION:  Kathy will ask Susan for an update.

b) Business Information Resources Spotlight is scheduled for May 14th.

c) Advanced RefWorks.  Jackie has offered to present this spotlight which would include    adding attachments, RefShare, Write & Cite common errors, etc.  The group agreed to pick a potential date after the Retreat schedule has been discussed.

d) UW ACE.  Also depends on the Retreat date; consider scheduling it for summer/fall 2010.

6) ISR Retreat 2010

a) Funding Request for lunch and travel for guest speaker.

Funding request has been approved; $50 honorarium and travel expenses for the speaker plus $350 for lunch.

b) Date

Kathy will check with Jennifer with a view to asking for the Davis Conference room for one day during the last week of April.  Currently it is booked for the entire week.

Our first choice is last week of April; 2nd choice is May 6th.  Other consideration is the availability of the guest speaker.

Need to firm up retreat date before we pick dates for UWACE and Advanced RefWorks.

c) Schedule for the day

d) Outside Guest Speaker (Kathy)

Sheril Hook, UT Mississauga, Information Literacy; Kathy will check with Sheril once date gets closer to get time and topic.

e) Sessions.

It was suggested that we include some retreat topics in the CYFI Challenge, particularly GIS:  easier questions could follow from the spotlight, more difficult ones from the retreat workshop.

7) Web 2.0 Series (Part 2)

ACTION:  Kathy will follow up with Susan who was not at the meeting.  See the “to do” list under “Next steps”, reproduced from the agenda:

a) Next steps:

  1. Re-contact liaison librarians about the additional support by Kristen (to be used by end of April) to see if we can garner more interest in leading the development of a module.
  2. Contact Kristen to:
    • Identify topics

3.  Consider launch opportunities—ISR Retreat?

b) Time line:  Need to get rolling next week; Kristen will be able to start right away.  If Web 2.0 is launched at Retreat, it would run May and part of June.

Meeting adjourned.

 

 

 

 


March 25 , 2010