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Library Instruction Committee - Staff Only

May 6, 2003
Dana Porter Library, Room 428
9:30 – 11:30
Minutes

Present: Laura Briggs, Helena Calogeridis (chair), Linda Hastings (recorder), Helen Yueping He, Tim Ireland, Dan Sich, Janet Wason

Regrets: Marian Davies, Melanie Watkins

  1. Minutes of the Meeting of April 1, 2002

    Approved.

  2. Additional Agenda

    6. Staff Instruction

  3. Business Arising

    #4. Helena reported that Marina has given approval to add the problem report form to the "How Do I..." list.

  4. How Do I ...

    Helena thanked members for their feedback. After some discussion the group chose the page based on the Brock model. Helena will contact Brock for permission to reproduce their model.

  5. Fall Orientation publicity

    Linda presented the Fall Orientation poster. She will continue to develop the basic idea and present it at the next meeting.

  6. Staff Instruction

    Dan is working (with Alex McCulloch and Christine Jewell) on staff demos and a handout for VDX Racer. These will be presented to User Service on June 6th and to ISR on June 13th. VDX Racer goes live on June 18th.

  7. Library presence in student handbooks

    The deadline for submitting information to the undergrad handbook is the first week in June.
    Marian and Helena have submitted tour dates only for the student life 101 hand book..
    The library will be involved in this years scunt.

  8. LINC's activities in foreign languages

    The committee agreed that a glossary of library terms would probably be the best avenue to take in meeting some of the needs of International Students using the library. Laura also suggested the possibility of improving the number of technical dictionaries available in various disciplines.

  9. Crib sheets for help with online databases

    This discussion will be left for the next meeting.

  10. Around the Table

    Janet announced that there will be a Library workshop on the Ontarian's for Disabilities Act.on June 4th. The guest speakers will be from the office for disabilities staff. Janet will e-mail staff with more information.

    Meeting Adjourned:
    11:30 am

    Next meeting:
    June 3, 2003
    Davis Centre Conference Room
    9:30 – 11:00 am

November 29, 2010