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Library Instruction Committee - Staff Only

December 2, 2003
Davis Centre Conference Room
9:30 am – 11:30 am
Minutes

Present: Helena Calogeridis (chair), Marian Davies (recorder), Eva Dodsworth , Helen Yueping He, Dan Sich, Melanie Watkins

Regrets: Linda Hastings, Tim Ireland , Janet Wason

  1. Minutes of the Meeting of September 2, 2003

    Approved

  2. Additional Agenda

    None

  3. Business Arising

    None

  4. Campus Maps

    As per Doug Morton’s comment regarding campus maps, Marian raised the issue of offering more than one style of campus map. She will inquire with staff in the Communications and Public Affairs department about the possibility of obtaining black and white maps, and also custom maps that highlight Library locations, in addition to the regular coloured campus map.

  5. Crib Sheets

    Dan presented a draft of a RACER crib sheet which he created. He requested feedback from LINC members. The crib sheet will be presented at the next ISR meeting and will be available for distribution by January.

    Additional discussion regarding crib sheets included the possible publicising of Doug’s crib sheets that are already available on the web. Dan will discuss this with Doug and report back to the committee.

    More discussion on this idea will follow at our next meeting.

  6. Creating and publishing special topic brochures

    Eva inquired about how one goes about having a publication created, specifically a brochure for GIS that UMD would like to have available to handout to students. She presented an example of the brochure. It was suggested for Eva to contact Linda Hastings and work through the design. Information on publication costs and budget issues will need to be gathered.

  7. Library bookmarks

    Deferred until the next meeting. Marian pointed out that supply is extremely low.

  8. Watcard barcodes

    Melanie informed the group of a new direction for barcode validation. By next fall the barcode validation of Watcards will be done automatically, thereby eliminating the manual process of barcode validation at the Circulation service desks, or through the online registration. Melanie will keep the group up-to-date on this new development, so that timely user instruction can be devised.

  9. Library instructions program for the Winter term

    Helena inquired as to whether or not LINC should provide the same workshops this winter term, as was given in the last winter term. The group agreed the same workshops should be given. Helena will send an email to ISR members to ensure staff can present the sessions, and will also finalize the location and time.

  10. Around the Table

    Nothing

November 30, 2010