May 17, 2006
Dana Porter Library, Room 428
11:00 am - 11:50 am
Minutes
Present: Rachel Caldwell, Helena Calogeridis, Eva Dodsworth, Sandra Keys (chair), Barbara Menich (recorder), Laurie Strome
1. Minutes of Previous Meeting
The minutes were approved. Laurie's name should be added to Item #4. Action: Sandra will make the change in Contribute.
2. Business Arising
- Mock-up has not been sent yet. It will be sent when the mock-up for the “Find Journal Articles” page is complete. Action: Barbara and Rachel will work on that page.
- For next meeting: Discussion about Laurie’s circulation notice Re: barcodes and emails. The group should look at it and note comments.
- Helena welcomed LINC’s new chair, Sandra Keys.
3. Discussion re: Meeting with Jennifer and Helena (Sandra)
- Sandra discussed the short, medium, and long term goals. Major changes will be medium term goals set for September 2007. Long term goals are 3, 5, or 10 years in the future. Sandra says LINC should ‘dream big’ for the future.
- LINC is going to invite more members: 2 librarians from Davis, and another from Porter. Action: Sandra will put out a call for membership this week.
- For next meeting: Discuss library promotion. Rachel talked to Rose about contacting grad offices to see how many information packages are required.
- LINC will liaise with other committees and have an awareness of library instruction that is occurring around campus. Overlap of projects should be avoided. Members of LINC will be representatives of LINC in other committees on which they serve.
- The graphic designers for LINC are Marian and Esther for now.
- LINC is going to investigate Professional Development project management. In some, there is a library component.
4. Fall Term Plans for Library Instruction Sessions
- The schedule was distributed; it is like last year’s.
- Action: Sandra will send out a message with the schedule attached for sessions instructors to confirm their time and interests.
- LINC will provide information for the brochure and Tours & Workshops website.
- Future session plans include RSS feeds, blogs, and wikis (Sept. 2007)
- The number of students participating is not increasing, but not decreasing either. LINC could work with CNAC to create a user survey.
- Action: Sandra will take up this issue with CNAC and the Lib. Web Review after her break.
- Marian and Esther will finish the brochure by the end of May. The text of the brochure will be beefed-up by July.
- Registration is not needed for the LINC sessions for the Fall, but a system of registration might be re-introduced for Sept. 2007. LINC will look into how LT3 handles their online registration process with reminder notices.
- A session will not be shut down if only 2 people show up. The limit of participants for a “hands-on” session is 20.
5. Call for New Members
See terms of Reference: http://www.lib.uwaterloo.ca/staff/linc/terms.html
Two librarians from Davis, and one from Porter. Deadline to become a new member is the end of the 3rd week of June.
6. Around the Table
Barbara and Rachel will work on the “How do I…Find Journal Articles” page.
Eva – the blurb from GIS is the same as last year’s
Helena – Mukul worked on two online tutorials for LINC. Helena will let us know what the current status is.
Next meeting: June 2 at 11:00 a.m. Rm. 428
November 29, 2010
