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Library Managers

University of Waterloo
Library Managers, July 14, 2010
9:30 a.m., DC 1568

Present: Annie Bélanger, Allan Bell, Jennifer Haas, Mark Haslett (Chair), Michele Laing, Sharon Lamont, Richard Pinnell, Mary Stanley, Debbie Tytko, Carolyn Vincent (Recorder)

Guest: Carl Nagel

Regrets: Eric Boyd, Annette Dandyk, Betty Graf, Susan Mavor, Alex McCulloch, Susan Routliffe

1. Review of Public and Staff Workstations – Final Report; and Next Steps
Carl went over the recommendations from the review of public and staff workstations with the managers. All public workstations have been upgraded with the exception of 60 (primarily located in the Davis Info Commons and main floor of the Porter library). All public printers have been replaced with higher performance models.

The Library will be moving to Office 2010 along with other academic support areas on campus this fall which will be more in line with what new students will have on their laptops. Systems plans to make Office 2010 available on public workstations in September and hopefully to staff around the same time but this is dependent on IST’s deployment service. It is anticipated that there will be at most a few weeks between the two. If Office 2010 goes out to the public workstations before staff, service point workstations will be equipped with Office 2010 to aid in support related issues. No compatibility and few user interface issues are anticipated between the versions of Office.

The goal of workstation renewal is to have both the public and staff workstation and infrastructure at a similar level of performance standard by the end of the fiscal year. This will include a review examining the library’s inventory of laptops with recommendations to follow.

The new Outlook Calendar is targeted to replace Bookit with the targeted date of November 2010. Various training opportunities will be provided by IST.

Action: Discussions of possible issues around the migration to Office 2010 and how this may impact on its deployment in the libraries will begin soon.

2. G20Net Update
Annie provided a G20Net Update. The University of Waterloo Librarians were invited through the Stratford campus to participate in the development of G20Net. The Librarians worked directly with Open Text and CIGI, with Annie acting as the Library Coordinator. This was the first social website for the G20. Sixteen topic communities were established and populated by the Waterloo Librarians. Feedback received indicates that the content was fantastic and rich.

Phase 2 involved Ask a Librarian, which offered service 18 hours a day, six days a week. Ask a Librarian received ten questions. Librarians from University of Toronto, University of Western Ontario, University of British Columbia, as well as MLIS students from FIMS(UWO) and SLIS (uAlberta) participated with Waterloo to provide the service.

Annie thanked the Cataloguing Department as well as the ISR Library Associates for taking on more desk hours during our participation in G20Net. This allowed the Waterloo Librarians to provide service on G20Net.

Action: Annie is now working on the post mortem and also working on a protocol document for Ask a Librarian.

3. Chairs Remarks
Recognition
July Anniversaries:
July 4 – Alison Hitchens, Cataloguing, 5 years
July 7 – Charles Woods, Systems, 30 years

Updates
The Canadian Digital National Strategy Consultations are taking place. The government is trying to get advice on digital strategy for Canada. (http://de-en.gc.ca/home/)

The C32 copyright discussions continue.

The Access Copyright Licence has been extended to the end of the calendar year and Waterloo is discussing the post 2010 situation.

4. Business Arising from June 16
There was no business arising.

5. Flextime 2.0
Sharon indicated that most documents are now up on the web.

6. Around the Table Updates
Debbie
Because of the implementation of HST, the Library has been required to pay back taxes on electronic product subscriptions invoiced from October 14 to June 30. The taxes are due on the portion of the subscription dated July 1/10 onward.
A report has been done and sent over to Finance. New invoices have to be checked for HST.

Print materials are 100% exempt from HST.

Mary
The annual Friends of the Library Lecture will be held on September 21, 2010. The featured speaker will be former Waterloo student Beckie Scott, a three-time Olympian and member of the Vancouver Olympic Organizing Committee.

Jennifer
There have been recent discussions about Foursquare and other location-based social networks such as Gowalla, MyTown, and Loopt that students access from their phones. There is interest in learning more about the potential impact on libraries and how location based social networks can enhance library spaces, services, and collections.

Sharon
LEH Review
The Request for Funding for Professional Development form has been revised – travel funding was taken out of the title. The online form will be revised.

The online Study Leave Application Form will be revised to be more user friendly.

Allan
The plan for the Learning Management System update is to have the RFP out in July '10. The analysis of the response and test installations would take place in Fall '10. Feb '11, a recommendation to UCIST and then a pilot that summer with 25 courses or so and implementation in Fall (Sept '11). Theoretically we have until Winter '12 because that is when the Angel license runs.

Systems is looking at updating the presentation capabilities in DC 1568 and LIB 428 to make these rooms look like E classrooms as much as possible.

Primo meetings for testing are taking place this week and it will be passed off to testers next week.

7. Library Services to Students - Brainstorming
Managers brainstormed on Library services to students and how the Library engages students.

Next meeting: August 18, 9:30 – 11:30, Davis


 


 


 


 


 


 


 


 


 


 


 


 


 


 


 


 


 


 

 

 


 


 


 


 


 




 




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