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Information Services Delivery Training Committee

ISR Training Committee
Meeting Minutes
March 24, 2011
1:30 - 3:00 p.m.
Porter Conference Room 428


Present
Zsuzsanna Lancsak, Judy McTaggart, Carol Steele (recorder), Margaret Yuen (chair)

Regrets
Connie Kovac, Kathy MacDonald.

1) Approval of minutes of March 10, 2011

Item 4, second paragraph under Other suggestions considered:  “Kathy will send out a call…” should read “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.”

2) Additional agenda

#8  Meeting schedule for May-August.

3) Business arising

Item 8: Membership – non ISR member.  Zsuzsanna reported on Betty Graf’s concern that Cataloguing member should be a librarian.
ACTION:  Margaret will share Betty’s concern with Annie.

4) ISR Retreat

Key dates.
March 28- session descriptions to Carol
April 7- flyers mailed out
April 14- our next meeting
April 21- RSVP for lunch is due

a) Program:

Millennials.
ACTION:  Margaret will email Kathy MacDonald to confirm that Randy Oldham is presenting at 1 p.m.; Margaret will also check that we can use his OLA session description for our invitation.

E-Books, 2:30-3:30 in Davis Conference.
Susan Routliffe will give a brief introduction
Betty Graf will describe how we find e-books in the UW Library collection.
Christine Jewell is creating a library guide.
Jonathan will give a presentation about different readers available.

Susan Routliffe will send to Carol a brief session description for use in the invitation.

Standards & Codes.
Doug is OK with the 9:30 start but has not decided if session will be hands-on or demo.
ACTION:  Zsuzsanna will let him know that the deadline for submitting the session description is March 28.

The group decided to move forward with a session on Information Sharing [working title].  It would consist of the three sessions below:

ACTION:  Margaret will discuss with Annie LINC’s suggestion for a presentation on Inclusive Teaching, specifically whether this session should be included in the Training Committee’s spotlight format.

ACTION:  Members of the ISR Training Committee should come up with potential names for the Information Sharing session.

b) Other Tasks and Deadlines:

Flyer/invitation: 
ACTION:  Carol will start work on the flyer March 29.
The lunch RSVPs should go to Judy; deadline for replies is April 21.
Margaret has asked Annie if we should use the Committee’s new name to promote the Retreat.

Lunch:
We have received approval for a budget of $400.
ACTION:  Margaret will check with Connie regarding options besides Vincenzo’s.

Evaluation:
We need to ask people for suggestions for other e-book topics.
ACTION:  Judy will create the evaluation.

ACTION:  Margaret will cancel any room bookings that we don’t need.

Conveners for the sessions are as follows:

5) Spotlights/Training Sessions

Natural Standard (Carol) - 14 attended; very positive feedback from attendees.

Reaxys Database (Kathy M.) – Kathy S. is ready to go for May 6.

Web 2.0 Part 2 relaunch (Zsuzsanna) – email goes out next week; some new people have signed up; the time for awarding of the certificates will be determined later and depends on the number of participants.

6) Training New Staff Members—deferred.

7) Tasks to do:  Updating Website, etc.

The staff surveys are missing from 2009 and 2010.
ACTION:  Carol will post them.

8) Meeting Schedule for May-August

It has been requested that we switch meeting times to alternate Thursdays, instead of the 2nd and 4th Thursday of the month.
ACTION:  Margaret will investigate further.

9) Next meeting:  April 14, Room 428.

10) Around the table—deferred.

 


April 15 , 2011