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Information Services Delivery Training Committee

ISR Training Committee
Meeting Minutes
November 11, 2010
1:30 - 3:00 p.m.
Davis Conference Room


Present

Annie Belanger, Jennifer Haas, Connie Kovac (recorder), Zsuzsanna Lancsak, Kathy MacDonald, Judy McTaggart, Carol Steele, Margaret Yuen (chair),

1) Approval of minutes Date

The minutes were approved with the following change: #7 “Brainstorming Categories” is the heading

2) Additional agenda

None

3) Business arising

Carol transferred the “Can you find it” blog onto the SharePoint site.

Kathy M. did a survey of who participated on the Blog and we have 2 winners, Larisa and Jane.

4) Terms of Reference

The Terms of Reference were approved

5) Training Schedule Template

A discussion followed on how to shorten the training period for new staff and how to make the training more effective. The training needs for co-op students are different from full-time staff members. Since we will need a training schedule for the co-op students in January, we would focus on this immediate need. Co-op students typically are used to self learning and self discovering, so our training can be designed to use those skills. Students can be given questions to help them discover resources.

Four set of core skills were identified and each category might have a trainer/mentor.

Kathy will draw up an outline of these categories and how they might be implemented for tomorrow’s ISR meeting.

We should know more details about our 2nd co-op student by the end of November so that we can start the schedule. New booking system, Exchange Calendar, will be available in December.

6) Training New Staff Members for Winter 2010

Department heads will work with Connie for scheduling of co-op students training. The Committee will be creating a revised template.

 7) Spotlights/Training Sessions

The 4 modules are:

Margaret expressed a concern with staff workload and suggested that the modules be spread over a longer time period, 2 modules before the holiday break and 2 modules after the holiday break.

Laura requested that the 4 modules be completed before the holiday break. The time frame of one module per week would be similar to part 1, where forty-two people signed up, only 9 did not complete it, out of those 9, 5 didn’t complete more than one. Each module should take about 1 hour to complete. The Committee decided that the modules can be completed over a 5-week period starting on November 19, with a wrap up at 10:30 on December 17th, following the “Citation Tracking” session in the FlexLab.

The Committee thanked Laura for her work in putting together the modules.

8) Staff Survey

            deferred

9) Tasks to do

Carol will review the older agendas and minutes in Sharepoint and delete older files. We can delete files after one year.

Margaret asked Carol to review the website and in particular to check that the minutes and staff survey results are updated. Carol will inform Connie which minutes need to be loaded to the website.

10) Meeting times for Winter 2011 – will again be the 2nd and 4th Thursday of the month.

11) Next Meetings – Tuesday November 23rd, 9:30-11:00 a.m. Porter – 428 (new re-scheduled time)

12) Around the Table - deferred

 


March 4, 2011