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Information Services Delivery Training Committee

ISD Training Committee
Meeting Minutes
October 20, 2011
1:30-3:00 p.m.
Porter Conference Room

Present:  Connie Kovac-Hill (recorder), Kathy MacDonald (chair), Judy McTaggart, Carol Steele, Jonathan Sutherland

Regrets: Zsuzsanna Lancsak

1. Approval of Minutes

#3 – correction of spelling of Marian’s name.
#4 – It was suggested that the co-op students supervisor be responsible for ensuring that the student is being trained on LibQuest.

2. Additional Agenda – None

3. Business Arising-

a) Linkbot check – Carol
Esther sent Carol a report and Carol was able to fix most of the items. Esther does not do an orphan report any more; there are too many.
FAQs – is a list that the Training Committee developed a few years ago to show that most questions that are asked beginning of term. The FAQs need to be kept up to date.
Action: Carol and Judy will compare the FAQs to what is on the WIKI
Jonathan will explore tagging within the WIKI
Carol will talk to Martha about tagging the aspects of the FAQs that are in WIKI
Kathy will ask Gayle and Rachel how they used the FAQs and the WIKI with respects to Reference Desk service.

b) Checklist for Core Reference Training – Judy
Judy has completed it, she will send it out to everyone; she will also add staff tip sheets for Primo

c) Inform Marian that supervisors are to ensure their co-op students get LibQuest training – Kathy
Kathy has already spoken to Marian regarding this.
Guidelines – Kathy sent out announcements

4. Training New Staff Members

a) Evaluations – Evaluations should be sent out since they are all done their training. Questions were reviewed for future evaluations. Kathy will send out the evaluations to Gail and Rachel.

b) MLIS Libguide – Kathy update from discussion with Jennifer
The supervisor’s checklist for co-op students should be in placed in the MLIS LibGuide to be able to access needed procedure in case of an emergency absence of the co-op student’s supervisor.

5. Annual Survey – review of results – Carol

The survey was reviewed and discussed.
The following were suggested as possible spotlights for the near future:
i) –MEDLINE Ref works grab it (Jackie) – convener – Judy – possibly for early November.
ii) – ILL process – new – Kathy M. will look into this further ; talk to Jennifer and Wish
iii) – PMB – Nov. 18? Or Dec. 2? Richard – Carol will speak to Richard in regards to presenting this.
iv) – Sociology & Legal Studies – (Tim) – Dec. 16? – Jonathan will speak to Tim

6. A. ODESI (Scholars Portal) – Carol – everything is in place.
B. Copyright – Kathy M. will contact Annette to register for this and find a location.
C. Library Channel Video – (Tim) – Kathy will speak to Jennifer and Tim

Next Meeting Thursday Oct. 27th; 1:30 p.m. Lib. 428

 

 

 


March 15, 2012