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Information Services Delivery Training Committee

ISD Training Committee
Meeting Minutes
March 1, 2012
1:30 - 3:00 p.m.
Davis Conference Room

Present

Kathy MacDonald (chair), Judy McTaggart, Carol Steele (recorder), Jonathan Sutherland

1) Approval of minutes of February 16, 2012

The minutes were approved with corrections.

2) Additional agenda

None.

3) Business arising

#4-- Judy has put the Core Reference Training checklist on SharePoint.

The Library has been given approval for 14 technical support positions going forward. The Training Committee will consider whether it is appropriate for those hires to receive any training through our program.

Kathy will talk to Jennifer regarding the location of the MLIS Co-op Student Manual.

4) Training New Staff Members

Aziz
Judy reported that the subject training is on schedule. Whenever Aziz gets trained for Acquisitions, Marian Davies is interested in joining the session. Ben has shown Aziz the Cognos reports that he needs, so no further Cognos training is required.

ACTION: Judy will contact Debbie Tytko about Acquisitions training for Aziz.

Vivian Zhang (MLIS co-op student in Cataloguing)
Kathy noted that in May the new cataloguer will need to be trained for the desk.

5) Spotlights/Training Sessions

a. Biology Images Library—postponed; Kathy will present at a later date.

b. Canadian Legislative Pulse—Agnes will present March 9, with Kathy convening.

c. E-books—Christine will present March 23 in DC, Jonathan convening.

d. RefGrab-It
ACTION: Carol will ask Jackie if she can present April 20; up to mid-June will work as well.

e. Public Service Aspect of RDA—Susan to report at next meeting.

f. LibQuest—Laura to be approached at a later date; session could possibly be scheduled for Fall.

6) Retreat

a. Lunch
ACTION: Judy will check the budgeted amount for last year.
ACTION: Kathy will submit budget request including travel expense & honorarium for external speaker(s).

b. Date & Time: Thursday April 26th, 9:30-4:00-ish.

c. Location
i. DC 1568 booked
ii. FlexLab not booked yet
ACTION: Judy will book FlexLab

d. Invitation/Flyer
ACTION: Jonathan will create the invitation/flyer online and in paper.

e. Retreat Ideas

i. Life of a Book or other resources--Kathy consulted Susan Routliffe; timing is bad (year end, Debbie’s retirement) plus it would be difficult to present the topic in an hour or two; instead, it is being considered as a one day event. Off the table for the Retreat.

ii. User Experience Team report from Robin Bergart and Doug Horne at UoG
ACTION: Kathy will talk to Robin & Doug March 2 to find out what the content is of their OLA presentations and whether there is relevance to the info desk.

iii. Anne Fullerton and Cornelia Tiba—they will do a 1 hour hands-on session based on a reference question about identifying all the papers written by a particular researcher; session may include Web of Science, Scopus, Google Scholar and Researcher ID.

iv. Semantic web/RDA/E-Science Institute/Mobile Apps—the group discussed these related topics and the possibility of designing a session to pull them together.
ACTION: Kathy will talk to Pascal & Alison

v. Web usability results—Marian.
ACTION: Kathy will touch base with Marian.

Once the sessions are confirmed, Kathy will ask for conveners.

f. Format—all sessions will be single, not concurrent.

g. Evaluation form
ACTION: Judy will put this together.

h. Lunch time slide show
ACTION: Carol will ask numerous staff members if they are interested in each submitting 20 travel photos to be used to create a slide show.

7) Next meeting—Thursday March 15th, 2012—Porter Rm 428

 

 

 


March 15, 2012