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Information Services Delivery Training Committee

ISD Training Committee
Meeting Minutes
March 15 , 2012
1:30 - 3:00 p.m.
Porter 428

Present

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

Regrets

Connie Kovac



1) Approval of minutes of March 1, 2012

The minutes were approved.  Carol will post.  It was noted the minutes of Aug. 11, 2011 were approved and have been posted.

2) Additional agenda

None.

3) Business arising

Kathy spoke with Jennifer about what role the Training Committee should have in training Tech support staff.  It was decided that Tech support should be familiar with the information provided in the "campus awareness" section of the training program. Action:  Jonathan will review this section to determine if there is anything missing that should be covered.

MLIS LibGuide - where should it sit? Kathy spoke with Jennifer. It was decided the LibGuide should sit on the Training Committee's website. Action:  Kathy will speak with Rose Koebel about adding a link.  Susan noted she would like to have Vivienne Zhang (Cataloguing co-op student) work with Gayle and Rachel on the manual.


4) Training New Staff Members

Judy reported Aziz is completing the last subject training module.  A session has been scheduled with Debbie Tytko for Acquisitions training.  A session will be scheduled with Doug Morton for chat reference training.  Action:  Judy will ask Aziz to complete the training feedback form.

 

5) Spotlights/Training Sessions

(a) Canadian Legislative Pulse (Agnes Zientarska-Kayko) - Kathy reported there were 17 attendees and 10 respondants. All responses were favourable; one person commented "it was nice to see all legislations together". Kathy noted this session contained the perfect amount of material for a spotlight session.  The committee's website has been updated and the evaluations sent to Agnes.  

(b) E-books (Christine Jewell) - March 23:  Kathy noted this session is tentative; waiting for a response from Christine.  If the session gets cancelled, no substitute spotlight will be held.

(c) RefGrabIT (Jackie Stapleton) - Carol reported the session is scheduled for April 20 in Davis.

(d) Mobile Apps (Pascal Calarco) - Susan will meet with Pascal and provide date options for May and early June. 

(e) Biology Images Library (Kathy) - session will be scheduled for May after Pascal selects date.

(f) SimplyMap (Eva Dodsworth) - Susan will speak with Eva about the possibility of a session in early June.

(g) LibQuest - session on hold.

 

 6) Retreat -April 26, 2012:

a. Lunch

Kathy received confirmation for the following: $400 for lunch plus travel expenses for guest speakers.  Library mugs are available as thank you gifts and Kathy will supply jam.

b. Sessions

User Team Experience (Robin Bergart & Doug Horne - UofG):  There was discussion about the revised proposal for this session .  The group agreed the new proposal would be a good fit for the Retreat.  Doug and Robin have no time preference.

Challenging question answered by Anne Fullarton and Cornelia Tiba:  This will be a hands-on session.  Part of the session will be interactive.  Kathy has tentatively named this "Names, Names, Names and What To Do When They're All the Same".

Searching For Satisfaction:  Kathy has 4 (possibly 5) people who have offered to give presentations - to goal is to have six.  Each presentation will be 10 minutes in length.  It will not be a hands-on session.

Web Usability Results or the Public Service Aspect of RDA?  The group agreed to host the RDA session.  The web usability results might be offered in a different way at a later date.  Alison Hitchens will present and Susan will convene.  Susan noted the Cataloguing Dept. Training Committee would like to co-sponsor this session.  Staff at WLU might be invited.  The number of WLU staff who would be interested needs to be clarified to determine what room to book.  Action:  Susan will confirm numbers.

(c) Timing of Sessions and Convenors

9:30 a.m. - 10:30 a.m.  -  Searching for Satisfaction (Carol)

10:45 a.m. - 11:45 a.m. - User Experience Team (Kathy)

12 noon - 1:00 p.m.  - Lunch

1:15 p.m. - 2:15 p.m.  -  RDA (Susan) - time to be confirmed with Alison

2:20 p.m. - 3:30 p.m.  -  Names, Names, Names...... (Judy)

Note:  Once Susan confirms time with Alison, the above schedule is finalized.

(d) Invitation/flyer, hold the date email: 

Jonathan will create the inviation/flyer in both electronic and print form.

Action:  Carol will send out "hold the date" email.

(e) Evaluations:  Judy

(f) Lunch time entertainment:  Carol 

 

7) Annual Survey

The annual survey will be prepared in June so that it will be ready to send out early in the Fall.

 

8) Membership

Membership will be reviewed after the Retreat.

 

Next meeting:  March 29, 2012; 1:30 p.m. - 3:00 p.m.; Porter 428

 

 


 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


March 27, 2012