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Library Managers

University of Waterloo
Library Managers, October 24, 2012
10:00 a.m., DC 1568

Present: Annie Bélanger, Pascal Calarco, Nancy Collins, Betty Graf, Jennifer Haas, Mark Haslett (Chair), Michele Laing, Sharon Lamont, Wish Leonard, Susan Mavor, Alex McCulloch, Carl Nagel, Susan Routliffe, Annette Dandyk (Recorder)

Guests: Eva Dodsworth, Jane Forgay, Alison Hitchens, Jamie Reilly

1. Chair’s Remarks
• Recognition and Commendation

October Anniversary:
October 11 - Denise Paquette, Porter Circulation (Resource Sharing), 35 years

• Updates
Thank you to all staff involved in organizing Open Access Week. Tomorrow’s Data Management Day sessions are sold out. Provost Sallie Keller will give the keynote address.

Sallie will attend the all staff meeting scheduled for November 1. Information about the campus MCR (mid cycle review) and the five life cycle working groups will be sent to the campus in the next few weeks.

The key topic of discussion at today’s TUG Exec meeting will be the print monographs management program.

2. Business Arising from Sept 12 and 19
There was no business arising.

3. Around the Table Updates
Nancy
Library Day is Wednesday, October 31. The Outreach Committee is finalizing logistics, and hopes to see many Library staff there.

Carl
Facilities:
A Works Request has been submitted for a power study of Porter.

A Works Request has been submitted for future renovations to the Flex Lab.

Two defibrillators have been ordered, one for each site.

Systems:
The move to Nexus has started. While many issues have cropped up, it is expected that all staff in the Systems department will be moved by tomorrow. Systems staff will visit each staff machine to do the update.

Eva
The Google Map Maker event is planned for November 7 & 8 in the Student Life Centre. The purpose is to promote: GIS, crowd sourcing map making, and the Geospatial Centre. Using Google’s online Google Map Maker program, participants will be invited to permanently make a mark on Google Maps. The first area to be mapped will be the uWaterloo campus, with the goal of making it one of the best mapped campuses in Canada. See https://sites.google.com/site/uwmapmaker/home/ for more information.

Jennifer
A number of posters relating to Data Management Day are on display in Davis and Porter.

Sharon
There were 448 responses to the Dana Porter Study Space Survey. 126 respondents expressed interest in participating further.

Susan R
In light of changes to Fair Dealing stemming from recent Supreme Court decisions and the Copyright Modernization Act, AUCC will shortly issue a new Fair Dealing Policy. In anticipation of the changes, we are revising our Copyright FAQ and other related documents and expect to be able to release them shortly.

Alex
The group looking into student study spaces in Porter is holding an exercise on October 29 and 30 to learn what furniture would be most desirable to students. Volunteers are still needed to take legible notes.

Annie
Collection Update: Porter ISR has identified numerous older duplicates and superseded materials for withdrawal. Circulation has pulled the items and shelf capacity is now at 78%, down from 93% this time last year. 80% full is the maximum capacity for proper management. Thank you to the Porter Weeding Taskforce, Ann Naese, and the Librarians!

Staff are encouraged to attend one of the WebOps presentations about the new staff training model and the new development standards for the Library public website, being offered November 1 or November 5.

Annie commended the Geospatial Centre staff for the recently created online map for locating Canadian municipal open data.

Annie is chairing the new OCUL IR Government Information Working Group. The group will be looking at collection management and preservation issues for federal government information.

Susan M
Special Collections has been working with Pascal and Graham Faulkner on digital asset management, and how Special Collections could participate.

Mark
There has been a lot in the press recently about MOOCs (massive open online courses). Discussions on campus are now underway. Pascal is currently enrolled in a course that is being taken by 85,000 students.

The Library has decided not to participate in LibQual 2013. We have participated in LibQual four times in the past. We first participated in 2000, and although uWaterloo had a high participation rate relative to other campuses, we didn’t learn much that we didn’t already know. Because the participation rate for subsequent LibQual surveys was much smaller the data was not useful.

4. Library Review consultation feedback and next steps
The group discussed the considerable feedback that has been received, and began to discuss next steps. There will be another opportunity for discussion at the November 7 meeting.

Next meeting: November 7


 


 


 


 


 






 


 


 


 


 


 


 


 


 


 


 


 


 


 


 


 


 


 


 


 


 


 


 


 


 


 


 


 


 


 


 


 


 


 


 


 


 

 

 


 


 


 


 


 




 




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