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Library Instruction Committee - Staff Only

April 1, 2003
Minutes

Present: Laura Briggs, Helena Calogeridis (chair), Marian Davies, Helen Yueping He, Tim Ireland, Dan Sich, Melanie Watkins, Janet Wason (recorder)

  1. Minutes of the Meeting of March 4, 2003:

    The Minutes were approved.

  2. Additional Agenda:

    “Fall Orientation Publicity” was added to the agenda as item #9.

  3. There was no Business Arising.

  4. Library presence in student handbooks (Marian):

    Marian distributed 3 UW student publications for LINC to consider as venues for advertising Library workshops and services.

    1. The deadline for submissions to the handbook produced by the Graduate Student Association is April 15. Marian will contact Mary Stanley with suggestions for new photographs of the Library.
    2. Mary Stanley is in charge of information submitted to the Student Life 101 handbook. Marian will send her the dates for the fall orientation program.
    3. The deadline for the Federation of Students’ “Undergraduate Student Handbook” is in June. Marian will ask Dave McDougall whether it is possible to print Library workshop dates on to the appropriate calendar day.

    ACTION: Helena will talk to Mary Stanley about the publicity budget.

  5. Update on LINC’s Staff Web pages (Janet):

    Rose Koebel has built new web pages incorporating the proposed layout. The committee reviewed them and made a couple of modifications.

    ACTION: Janet will ask Rose to make the changes and then mount the pages on the Staff Web.

  6. Library orientation for non-library UW staff (Tim):

    The Optometry Learning Resource Centre will be hosting a Library orientation day for School of Optometry staff sometime this summer. Staff can learn about their library privileges, TRELLIS, and services such as connecting from home.

    Tim wondered if the Library would be interested in running a similar session for campus staff. It is likely that most staff are unaware of the library’s offerings. LINC discussed the advantages of such a program, including increasing the Library’s visibility on campus.

    Programming ideas included adding a Library session to the general orientation program provided to all new staff, and hosting a ‘lunch and learn’ session with refreshments.

    ACTION: Helena will take Tim’s suggestion to ISMC for their consideration (Mary Stanley is a member of ISMC).

  7. How Do I…website project progress report (Helen and LINC):

    The committee continued to look at the ‘How Do I…?’ question list, making suggestions and modifications. Still to be decided is the appropriate format for this page. The final list of items on this page needs to be confirmed. The group prefers that the items be arranged in categories.

    ACTION: Helen will consult with Marina about adding the problem report form to the list.
    Dan will discuss wording changes with Helen.
    Helen will send the URL for her suggested page, which is divided into categories.

  8. LINC’s activities in foreign languages:

    This item was deferred because of time constraints.

  9. Fall Orientation Publicity:

    ACTION: Because Linda is away, Helena will check with Mary Stanley on the plans for the Fall orientation theme.

  10. Around the Table:

    There were no items.

Next meeting: May 6, 2003
Dana Porter Library, Room 428
9:30 to 11:00 a.m


November 29, 2010