Skip to the content of the web site.

Information Services Delivery Training Committee

ISR Training Committee
Meeting Minutes
March 10, 2011
1:30 - 3:00 p.m.
Davis Conference Room


Present

Connie Kovac (recorder), Kathy MacDonald (chair), Judy McTaggart, Carol Steele, Margaret Yuen (chair)

Regrets

Zsuzsanna Lancsak

1) Approval of minutes February 24, 2011

The minutes were approved with the following changes: 4 c) – “session May” should read “session in May”:  4 d) – “in November but” should read “in November”.

2) Additional agenda

5.e – RefWorks 2.0

3) Business arising

5 a) Technology Trends – Amanda Etches-Johnson is unavailable for our suggested dates.

4) ISR Retreat

Program:

a) Millennials: Who are they? How do they use technology?– Randy Oldman from the University of Guelph Library could be scheduled for 1:00 p.m.

b) E-Books – Susan Routliffe has asked Christine Jewell to put the session together. She will meet with IRMC to work out the details on March 17th.

c) Standards & Codes – deferred.

Other suggestions considered:

Working together and Information Sharing – If we go with this session and use a panel format, one presentation could include Kathy MacDonald introducing PICO (patient, population or problem/intervention or exposure/ comparison/outcome), a  search strategy frequently used in the health sciences.

Kathy will send out a call to information desk staff to ask if anyone would be interested in giving a presentation.  The focus would be on things that they have done or have read about.

Other:

Lunch: This would be a good opportunity to get people to mingle.  One suggestion is that when people sign up for lunch, they would be asked to list hobbies or interests, and those with similar interests would be seated at the same table. Another alternative is to seat people by different colour serviettes.

Email Notification: Margaret will send out a “Hold the date – April 28th” e-mail to all the Info Desk staff.

Flyer: Carol Steele has agreed to put together the flyer. All the descriptions/write ups for the session should be submitted to Carol by Monday March 28th.

Flyer distribution: Judy will distribute the flyers to Porter staff as well as the Affiliated Colleges, Pharmacy, UML, and Musagetes. Connie will distribute the flyers to Davis and send 4 to Kathy M. in Optometry. Flyers should be sent out by April 7th.

Tentative schedule for the Retreat:

9:30 a.m. – 10:30 a.m. – Standards and Codes – FLEXLab                

10:45 a.m. - 11:45 a.m. – Working Together and Information Sharing (tentative) - FLEXLab

12:00 – 1:00 Lunch – Davis Conference Room

            1:15 p.m. – 2:15 p.m. Millennials (Randy Oldman) – Davis Conference Room

            2:15 p.m. – 2:30 p.m. Break

            2:30 p.m. – 3:30 p.m. E-Books - Davis Conference Room

5) Spotlights / Training Sessions

a)         ACRL Webinar - A Future in Transition: Foreseeing Forthcoming Opportunities & Challenges in Academic Reference –

       Kathy reported that there were 9 participants; only 3 feedback forms were submitted.  The sound was awkward.

b)           Natural Standards – (Carol) – Angela is ready to give her session tomorrow.

c)            Reaxys Database – (Kathy M.) Kathy Szigeti will present on May 6, 2011.

d)           Web 2.0 Part 2 – relaunch. Margaret will follow up with Zsuzsanna tomorrow.

e)         RefWorks 2.0 – The beta version will be out in May, and Tim Ireland would be able to give a training session closer to the release date.

6) Terms of Reference

Margaret distributed the most recent draft of the Terms of Reference; it will be mounted on SharePoint.

7) Training New Staff Members – deferred

8) Membership - non ISR member

Margaret spoke with Annie, and she felt that it would be best to keep the non-ISR member open and flexible to a librarian or library associate. When a call for membership is sent to non-ISR members serving at the Library’s Information service points, the Department Head for Cataloguing can indicate her preference in having a librarian or library associate serve on the Committee.

9) Tasks to do: updating websites etc.

Website/SharePoint: Carol has cleaned up the SharePoint site with agendas kept on SharePoint for 6 months, while minutes can be deleted once they have been uploaded to the website. Minutes on the website are now up to date. Thanks to Carol for her work on the web pages.

10) Next meeting – March 24th Porter, Rm 428

11) Around the table – None

 


March 25, 2011