Circulation Policies and Procedures, May 6, 2008

May 16th, 2008

West Loop Library, 1:00 p.m. 

Members present: Theresa Rivera, Marion Kennedy, Dennis Klappersack, Stephanie Emiseh, Yolanda Ramirez, Angela Secrest, and Cindy Belmar

1. Review of minutes

Many additional new and related issues discussed, please see under new business.

Suggested policy of placing holds on the fifteenth of the month. The committee continues to support this. Reminder one hold per one book in People Soft.

Action item: directions for placing holds in People Soft will be revised and rewritten. Theresa and Cindy will work on this. Reminder to circulation staff that this is not optional and must be done.

Releasing holds on overdue materials. Different libraries are handling this in different ways. Marion has reminders with the dates on all the circulation computers. Theresa tells evening people to place any overdue items on her desk for her to check in the morning. The bottom line is any item over two weeks overdue should be handled as though a hold has been placed. Remember holds in both People Soft and Millennium are released at the library where the item is returned.

2. Charges for overdue reserve materials. Trudy Cleveland has asked for a review of this issue and she says “Placing a spin hold on student records, emailing/calling professor is not always a deterrent to students walking out of the library with textbooks.”

Information from minutes when the issue was previously addressed:

Minutes November 30, 2006, Town and Country Library.

Circulation Policies and Procedures Committee Meeting.

Present: Theresa Rivera, Angela Secrest, Marion Kennedy, Stephanie Emesih, Brenda Bowser, Dennis Klappersack, and Cindy Belmar

a. Assessing fines on instructor reserve items—if the instructor so requests.

Action:

We recommend that this be left up to the individual college and chair. There are so many considerations and variables that individual colleges are in a better position determine what is best for them and their faculty member.

Also, per 2.108.5.3 of the Library Policies when a service indicator hold is placed in SPIN for an overdue reserve item that belongs to an instructor a note should be included that says what the student needs to do to resolve the problem be it an overdue or lost item. If it is an instructor owned item it is between the instructor and the student.

We still recommend this be left up to individual campuses and colleges. Marion said they reserve the right to charge a $10 processing fee for the time and paperwork involved in dealing with overdue reserves. This is after the instructor and student have been contacted. Spin holds are placed after these attempts; usually 2-3 days.

3. Create checklist for PEP process.

4. New Business and/or old issues revisited

a. Faculty overdues. We don’t put faculty on hold in People Soft, nor do we put a block in their Millennium record. The new wording is less harsh in the email overdue notifications for faculty. Blocks in Millennium are used by Angela for Texshare overdues.

b. Reminder People Soft overlays any changes in Millennium. If a student has a new address or phone number put the information in the NOTE field and remind the student to fill out an HCC change of address form.

c. Reserve Issues. Keeping our circulation statistics as high as possible is very important. The bottom line is it impacts on our job security. Not all libraries in the system are checking out in Millennium reserve items; instead an ID is held. Also reserve items should be pulled at the end of each semester. Angela suggests creating a list of reserve items, changing the end date to take off reserve, and then reactivating the item if the instructor wants the same item on reserve next semester. Theresa sends out emails and puts notes in instructor’s boxes reminding them that they have items on reserve. After one year with no response she will return the book to the department.

       Action item:  Angela will send out a reminder with directions on deactivating an item from reserve and then reactivating if needed.    Is putting items on reserve part of PEP? 

d. Stephanie suggests calling patrons with overdue items. This could be done in the evening by adjunct staff/librarians.

       Action item: Angela will investigate possibility of Millennium generated calls.

e. May 12th the Catalog will have a new look.

f. Overdue notices will no longer be sent out –strictly by email. Students will need to check their HCC email. Angela is going to suggest to the web committee that a notice in red be on the library page linking to webmail. The members of CPP thought this was a good idea.

g. Librarians are encouraged in their orientations to include directions on how to log into your patron record.

h. Books checked out to a barcode. Angela reports at least once a week she has to deal with a book checked out to just a barcode with no additional information. Obviously this is not good, libraries need to make sure all circ staff, and work study students understand how to create a patron record or insert a barcode.

i. Picture IDs will no longer be issued. With active directory off campus students won’t need their barcode to log in to databases. We will at least for now issue gray cards for book checkouts.

Circulation Policies and Procedures, January 8, 2008

May 15th, 2008

Members present: Theresa Rivera, Angela Secrest, Shamieka Bryant, Marion Kennedy, Stephanie Emesih, and Dennis Klappersack.

1. Send out notices for materials overdue from past semesters.  Currently we don’t do this.  (suggestion of H. Achee) 

Discussion summarized. First, to do this costs money and the amount of undeliverable notices increases. It was felt the main issue is really that holds and spin notices are not being placed. Angela had prepared a list with all the overdues, that clearly illustrated the fact holds are not being done in Spin and notices are not being placed in the message field in Millennium. Different campuses shared how they do this. E.g. Town prepares lists immediately after Thanksgiving (and in addition has a best practices procedure in place), whereas Central does this process twice a semester (and they also have a best practices procedure). The problem remains that many campuses are not doing this. After much discussion and with the consideration of the large number of outstanding resources, the committee recommends that overdue lists and Spin holds along with messages in Millennium be done each month

Angela will write guidelines and a checklist for the PEP process that specifically addresses:

- The task of creating lists

- The task of placing spin holds and a message in Millennium

- The task of creating a separate list of faculty overdues to be given to the staff member/librarian responsible for contacting faculty on overdues.

- Notification of supervisor that tasks are completed

The Circ. Policies Committee will send out reminder notices monthly when the above tasks are to be done. Angela will remind Library that tasks are completed. If needed the CPP committee will sponsor another working session to complete tasks.

2. The check-out of library items to individuals who have registered for an upcoming semester, who are not presently taking classes in the current semester.

The data collected by Angela does not indicate that this is an issue. At different times in the semester the expiration date does not accurately reflect if the student has paid for the subsequent semester. Some campuses require a paid receipt to check out to students during the mini session.

3. Overdue notices for faculty.  How do all campuses handle this?  We had a faculty member ask if we could send out weekly reminders to him if he forgets to return resources.

We addressed as part of the discussion on holds.

4. Overdue lists and holds—any problems?

5. New business and issues

Many librarians do not include in their orientations information on how to login to a patron’s own account.

Community users are encouraged to get a Texshare card from their public library. Angela will add a message to that effect. We really don’t have any and it makes more sense for them to get a Texshare card.

Angela would like to change the online policies and procedures so that they could be changed by anyone with password clearance.

Reminder to circulation staff a message should be placed in Millennium when an overdue letter is returned due to incorrect or insufficient address.

Angela brought up Active Directory. For now implementation is on hold, but this will change several procedures.

Library Instruction Committee, April 10, 2008

May 15th, 2008

West Loop Library Electronic Classroom, 1:30 P.M.

Present: Henri Achee, Judy Cantwell, Kathleen Dillon, Peggy Edwards, Bill Hord, Gwen Richard, Deborah Salvo, Jennifer Stidham, and Michele Turner.

EXISTING BUSINESS

1. LibGuides presentation: Gwen welcomed Lisa McNamara to the LIC meeting. Jennifer introduced Lisa, a librarian at the University of St. Thomas, who gave an overview of the university library’s use of LibGuides, a subject guide/library content delivery software. Some of the attributes of LibGuides are:

- Can link directly to catalog subject headings

- Can post web-based pathfinders

- URL’s can be customized

- Can run del.icio.us links inside guides

- Can do podcast feeds

- Users can comment and rate and rank items on a page

- LibGuides.com maintains their own server

The University of St. Thomas Library’s LibGuides can be viewed at “http://doherty.libguides.com/.” All LIC members are asked to research how other libraries are using LibGuides. Jennifer will re-send the list of those colleges via email. Angela Secrest will be invited to a future LIC meeting to demonstrate how to create a subject guide using the template she created. An important question arose: Will there be a commitment by HCC librarians to produce content in any subject guide format? 

2. Librarian Training: Amy was not present but reported via email to Gwen that because of the many meetings scheduled for the intercession, the librarian training session may be postponed. The committee agreed that instead of presenting the entire session at one setting, individual modules can be presented as a part of each LIC meeting.

3. Information Literacy Committee report: Bill reported that the Information Literacy curriculum was approved at the Librarians Forum in January. It was determined that the IL committee will be ongoing. A grant has been submitted for proposals to design the IL teaching modules. The committee will now have to establish goals for the 2008-09 year and decide what is to be accomplished next.

4. Possible LIC theme for 2008-09: It was agreed that a theme based on Inquiry and problem-based learning would be an appropriate pursuit for the next academic year, particularly since inquiry is a core value for libraries and learning. This theme would also be suitable for a PR initiative promoting IL among librarians, faculty and students. A suggestion was made to possibly use a tagline used by Bill in his emails: “Ask. It’s how people learn.” Each LIC member is asked to brainstorm possible ways to market this theme and to bring ideas and suggestions to each meeting.

NEW BUSINESS

5. Next meeting date: May 15th (changed from the 8th at 1:30 at the West Loop. Bill will facilitate because Gwen will be involved with the Northline Library move.

6. Updating Recommended Websites page: The LIC needs to develop a process for maintaining and updating the library webpages and for checking for broken links. Henri volunteered to chair a website sub-committee, though not the former Recommended Websites one. Requests for changes to the website may be made by any HCC librarian via email to Henri. The LIC must approve all changes.

7. Updating Library Databases pages: This item was tabled for the next meeting due to the time involved.

8. Catalog Search issues: At Gwen’s request, Henri summarized the recent email dialogues regarding changes made to the library catalog. Apparently, some of the issues have already been resolved. However, the group consensus was that no major changes should be made to the catalog, or to any aspect of running the catalog, without prior notification of the LIC. Per existing policy, proposed changes are to be approved by the LIC before being implemented.

Bill distributed handouts on Bloom’s Revised Taxonomy Planning Framework that can be used in planning library instruction.

Judy announced that, per IT, as of Fall 2008 all faculty will have Blackboard accounts, and by 2009 all students will have accounts as well.

The meeting was then adjourned.

Library Instruction Committee, December 13, 2007

April 23rd, 2008

West Loop Library Electronic Classroom, 1:30 PM

Present: Henri Achee, Cindy Belmar, Jo Blair, Judy Cantwell, Kathleen Dillon, Bill Hord, Gwen Richard, Amy Sisson, and Michele Turner.

EXISTING BUSINESS

1. Information Literacy Committee: Bill reported that a draft of the IL curriculum document had been sent out for review to librarians via the listserve. The twenty-five page document will also be copied and made available for everyone attending the librarians forum on January 4, 2008. At which Bill will outline the main points of the document. Discussion and comments will be solicited through email and a meeting will be planned for Friday, January 1st at the W. Loop Library for further discussion and to determine where IL should go from there. A brief discussion of where the link to the document should be placed on the library site took place but no agreement was arrived at so it was tabled for another meeting.

2. LibGuides and Emerging Technologies Committee report: Jennifer was not present but sent a report indicating that there was not enough interest to form a separate group so any items for future consideration would be brought up within the LIC.

3. Faculty conference: Amy informed us that she and Jennifer continue to work on a presentation for the conference but are still considering ways to approach their topic. A date for the conference has not been decided.

4. Reference Training for Library Assistants: Bill and Henri talked about the topics that will be covered for the training, which will be planned for Tuesday, January 8th, from 1-3 pm. Bill will send an announcement to the librarians’ listserve and ask Angela to send one to the Circulation Staff listserve. Some of the objectives for the training include:

. Anticipate possible outcomes of a reference transaction.

. Use interview techniques to determine a questioner’s “real question.”

. Recognize a number of relevant ways students’ questions (especially reference questions) can vary.

. Recognize situations that call for referring the transaction to a librarian.

5. Outreach to Students: Jennifer reported via email that she has set up Facebook and MySpace http://myspace.com/hcclibrarian accounts for the Distance Ed. Committee as a test. She plans to invite Lisa McNamara from St. Thomas University to attend the February 7th LIC meeting to talk about how STU is using social networking software to market to students.

6. Instruction for Librarians: There was some concern on the usefulness of a presentation on “When Technology Fails During Library Instruction.” Amy will then consider aiming for a two-hour presentation in May on what things can be done using technology such as Camtasia or Snagit.

7. Featured Resources link for the library’s web site: Bill voiced Angela’s concern regarding suggestions the LIC made at the October meeting for this new link. The committee members voted to keep the link (5 yes; 3 no) with modifications. Recommended changes for the link, which is designed to highlight underutilized resources, include:

a. The link should be less prominent, not underlined and not in red.

b. Only use short descriptions of the featured resource and add “…More” if needed.

NEW BUSINESS

8. Library site Maintenance Interface: The LIC agreed to accept the responsibility for maintaining the library web site. Bill and Amy volunteered to make changes as they are needed.

9. Spring semester meeting dates: February 7th, April 10th, and May 8th. The date of the March meeting will be determined at the February meeting.

The meeting was adjourned at 3:45.


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Library Chairs, March 27, 2008

April 23rd, 2008

Alief Campus at Hayes Road

Present:  Judy Cantwell, Ron Homick, Dennis Klappersack, Angela Secrest, George Teoh

1. Library Chair Job description: Dennis reported that everyone seems to agree that the “library chair job description” as written was acceptable, except to add in “supervise or oversee the supervision of library staff”.

2. Web Committee: There was a long discussion about the new enhancements to the library catalog (i.e. jacket covers, send to cell, other resources, ratings, etc.) and about the responses from Angela’s email request.  Adding these enhancements to the catalog will cost about $2,800, and can come from Angela’s budget.  Angela will be putting all these new enhancements on for a trial to the public, till the end of this semester.   We also decided that librarians are to take special note of student interest in the new catalog features, and that Angela will gather statistics on use of the “send to cell” feature. Concerning updating table of contents to the library catalog, the Chairs will request Angela to get someone in the Library Technical service staff to take on adding the table of contents manually, as a special project.  Angela reported that the Web Committee had expressed concern over broken links and the lack of updated pages on the database pages, particularly suggested websites pages. Some chairs said that they had noted this, too.  The LIC has the responsibility of maintaining these pages.  The Chairs said that they would ask  LIC to evaluate their process for adding new recommended websites to the pages, fix the broken links and to publicize this process.  Judy reported that she and Jennifer Stidham had come up with an idea for enhancing the recommended websites pages while they were at TxDLA this week.  Angela suggested that they present the idea to the Web Committee, since this idea was an enhancement to functionality of the recommended websites pages and just not just content, after the LIC has established (or re-established) a way for librarians to suggest new content for the pages.

3. Overdue notices: George reported that instead of sending instructors nasty notes when they have not returned overdue library materials, it would be a good idea to send them a friendly reminder before their items are due, via email.  This was being done by HPL.  At the last chair meeting Angela was requested to change the language about overdue notices and it is already been implemented.  George will check with Cindy Belmar (Circulation Policy chair) about changing the due date for instructors.

4. Program Review: The deadline for completing  the Library Program Review, will be May 15.  Judy will be contacting each chair in the meantime about specific statistics or figures that are needed.

5. Other business: The next Chair meeting will be at Westloop on April 25, at 8:30 am. Dennis took us on a tour of the Alief Campus.

Library Instruction Committee, March 6, 2008

April 8th, 2008

Minutes of March 6, 2008, 1:30 PM Meeting

West Loop Library Electronic Classroom

Present: Henri Achee, Judy Cantwell, Peggy Edwards, Bill Hord, Gwen Richard, Deborah Salvo, Amy Sisson, and Michele Turner.

Existing business

Gwen welcomed Deborah Salvo to the LIC meeting. Deborah is the new Alief-Bissonnet librarian.

1. Faculty conference: Amy reported on the presentation she and Jennifer made at the Faculty conference in February. Nearly 50 people attended the session on Books, Blogs, and Bibs: Web 2.0. Though they were not able to get internet access, the back-up Power Point slides helped and they received very good responses from attendees. Thanks to Amy and Jennifer for doing this to represent the libraries.

2. Reference training for Library Assistants: Henri reported briefly on the reference training that he and Bill did for library assistants. Attendance was 7-10 people. Many thanks to Bill for designing the training and to Henri for assisting.

3. IL forum: Bill was not present when the IL agenda item was mentioned.

4. Instruction session for librarians: Amy is still planning an activity to be held during the interim between spring and summer semesters. A suggestion has also been made to offer the same presentation given at the faculty conference (Bogs, Bibs) to librarians.

5. LibGuide demonstration: Lisa McNamara has agreed to attend the April 10th LIC meeting to talk about how the University of St. Thomas uses LibGuides. There has been no commitment one way or another to use LibGuides within HCC so this will be for information purposes only at this time.

6. Future instruction events/activity for students: Discussion was tabled for the time being because of pending discussions on demos and modules for the IL program.

7. Toolkit changes: Henri requested that a document he created be posted to the Librarians Toolkit. Bill will post it.

New business

8. Tagging the Catalog in del.i.cious: Michele showed Angela Secrest’s PowerPoint presentation on tagging. After much discussion it was determined that this activity might be more appropriate in a public library than in an academic setting. For further action to be warranted, Angela will be asked to attend a future meeting to discuss tagging more and to give us an idea of how much investment in staff time would be required to manage this.

9. Standards for Library Instruction: Should there be standards for library instruction? After much discussion on this item, it was decided that no one list of items should be suggested as coming from the LIC. The pending IL Curriculum will fill this purpose to some extent. If librarians have individual lists or guidelines they deem useful, those may be posted to the Librarians Toolkit.

10. ARCL’S report on The Changing Role of Academic Librarians: Gwen distributed a one-page synopsis of the roundtable discussion on what librarians need to do to heighten exposure to libraries on their campuses and suggested that the these should be taken into consideration for future library concerns. The three items were “1. promote their institutions as gateways to reliable information sources, 2. provide more services and guidelines to users, 3. become active participants in asserting the evolution of their institutions.”

11. Possible LIC themes for 2008-09: Though the full measure of what having a theme might entail was not quite clear or agreed upon, some possible considerations were talked about. They were the continued development of the IL curriculum modules, employing various marketing strategies, and using the concept of INQUIRY and problem-based learning as a focus.

12. Other:

Judy mentioned that various pages on the library’s web site are in need of updating, including the databases pages.

Henri mentioned the Assessment page as needing revisiting.

Gwen announced that CALLR will be held at UH-Clear Lake on April 24th.

The meeting was adjourned at 3:30pm.

Library Chairs, February 14, 2008 at West Loop

March 26th, 2008

Present: Judy Cantwell (note taker), Ron Homick, Dennis Klappersack, Angela Secrest and George Teoh.

1.  The program review template was divided among those present to review last year’s report and to write about the relevant topics this year.  “Instruction” (section 2) and “Student Success” (section 3) were given to Judy Cantwell.  Paragraphs about the information literacy curriculum, staffing for the library instruction component of GUST 1270, and dual credit issues will be added.  “Instructional Resources” (section 4) was assigned to Angela.  Similar, but updated, information to that given in last year’s report would be sufficient for this section.  The paragraph on open source materials may be deleted.  “Planning for Improvement—Strengths” (section 5) was divided among several people.  “System-Wide Cooperation” (including info on the writing of a library strategic plan) and “Library Instruction” were assigned to Ron.  “Distance Education” was assigned to Judy.  “Electronic Resources” and “Library/LRC Support” were assigned to Angela.  “Library Use” and “Professional Development” was assigned to Dennis.  “Library Technology” was assigned to George.  “Planning for Improvement—Weaknesses” was also divided.  “Space,” “Collections” and “Security of Collections” was assigned to Judy.  She is to include information about a shared-use facility like the one planned for Missouri City in the section about “Space.”  Angela is to provide Judy with the statistics about the district-wide collections as well as each individual site.  “Library Effectiveness & Evaluation” was assigned to Dennis.  There was some talk of moving this topic to another part of the report.  “Technology” was assigned to Angela.  Every chair is to contribute to the “Staffing” section by providing FTE statistics for both librarians and library assistants per site to Judy via e-mail.

2. Library Strategic Plan: A steering committee, whose charge is to oversee the process of creating a library strategic plan, was formed.  Richard was absent from this meeting.  Since the object was to have one person from each college on the steering committee, he will be asked if he wants to be the Coleman representative.  James was also absent, but since Denise Coles has expressed such an interest in the project, she was tentatively placed on the committee pending his approval.  The nominated members of the committee are as follows:  Central: Amy Sisson; Northeast: Denise Coles; Northwest: Cindy Belmar; Southeast: Judy Cantwell; Southwest: Dennis Klappersack; and LLS: Angela Secrest.

3.  Gate Count Week:  It was decided that the next district-wide gate/head-count would be March 3rd - March 9th.

4.  Overdue notices for faculty:  It was decided that we would stop sending the automatically produced overdue notices to faculty.   Creating a list of faculty overdues and devising a way for each library staff to remind the faculty of their overdue library materials will become a part of the end-of-semester routine for the library assistants at each site.  It was suggested that the Circulation Policy & Procedures committee devise a form letter that each library staff might use to notify these faculty members as a part of this end-of-semester routine.

5. Subscription cancellations:  Based upon the voting tally, we will cancel the Proquest National Newspaper Abstracts.  We will vote again in August in order to have time to cancel some of the titles that were already renewed in January before we had a chance to vote this last time.

6.  Other:   Judy updated the chairs about the last I.T. Advisory Council meeting.  Angela said that she’d work with Chau to see what can and should be done to replace old and failing servers across the library system.  Dennis will work with the library assistants to arrange a professional development activity that can be attended by part-time staff who work only in the evening and/or the weekends.  It might be held on a weekday evening during the intersession between Spring and Summer or it might be held on a Friday night.

7.  Next meeting:  The chairs initially set a date of March 5th as the next chair meeting, but that meeting has been indefinitely postponed and no new date has been set.

Distance Education Committee, January 17, 2008

February 13th, 2008

Attendees:  Larry Anderson, Judy Cantwell, Denise Coles, Trey LaBorde, Mike Mitchell

Location: Eastside Campus

I.  ChatRef

-  there has been an increase in minutes and the number of questions between 2006-2007

-  there was talk about finding more subs to help cover when people are out sick or at meetings

-  when the interim/permanent librarian at Alief-Bissonnet is added, they will be good candidate

-  work will continue to find someone to cover for Dolores

II.  Tutorials

-changes/updates needed

-review order of tutorials and put them in groups for students and groups for faculty

-all WebCT-related tutorials are out-of-date

-AskaLibrarian

  -   change URL for IM

  -   change old HCC logo in URL window

  -   remove Chatango logo

-Get My Barcode

  -   change old logo in URL window

-Limit an Item Search

  -   add audio

  -   needs script

-Using E-books

  -  add audio

  -   needs script

-Using Databases

  -   add audio

  -   add script

  -   check links

-LibLine

  -   add audio

  -   add script

-Take a Look RSS Google

  -   needs audio

  -   needs script

-Handy Page

  -   needs a list of tutorials

  -   needs to play tutorial in a loop

  -   mark for faculty who are adding learning objects

-New tutorials for addition

  -   Library catalog

  -   Library’s homepage

  -   Opposing Viewpoints database

  -   Academic Search Complete database

  -   General introduction to using the Library

  -   Efficient searching of the internet

  -   Recommended websites

  -   Research guides

  -   Style guides

  -   Differences in keyword searching and subject searching

-Ebsco Alerts

-ProQuest Widgets

-Web Bridge

-Faculty Bookings

-the next DE meeting will be 2/28 at 2pm at Town and Country campus

Library Chairs, December 13, 2007

January 2nd, 2008

Present: George, Judy, James, Ron, Angela, Dennis

1.      Database selection procedures

Angela will create an online survey to determine which databases librarians would be willing to cut in order to purchase different ones, or in order to remain within our budget, since cuts will most likely be required this year.

We will also provide a list of possible additions for librarians to review and rank after the voting cutoff data on the 18th.  Dolores and Rosa will be asked to begin compiling a list of additions.

2.      Strategic Plan for Instructional Technology

Judy will introduce this topic at the Forum, and Angela will bring copies for the librarians.  A meeting is scheduled Jan. 9, 2:00 PM at Town and Country for any librarians who wish to discuss the document and provide input.  Angela will then input our comments on Google docs.

3.      Librarian’s Forum

The Forum will probably be held in Room 105 again.  The agenda will include the two issues above and the committee reports.  Information literacy will be part of the LIC discussion. The Chairs are considering a separate forum focusing on Information Literacy.

4.      News items

Alief is moving this weekend, and will be  replicated at the Alief Hayes site.  Alief CEC will remain at the Bissonnet location.  Jo will be moving to Hayes, and a new librarian will be hired for the Bissonnet ERC.

Bill  and Henri will conduct a reference workshop for the library assistants on Jan. 8 as part of the PEP professional development series. Angela will create certificates.

The part-time staff budgets will be restored to last year’s spending levels.

Distance Education Committee, November 29, 2007

January 2nd, 2008

Members present:  Cindy Belmar*, Judy Cantwell, Denise Coles, Peggy Edwards, Trey LaBorde, Mike Mitchell, Amy Sisson, Jenn Stidham

 

*brought cake

I. Chat reference report

-  Discussion about covering Dolores’ Feb. shifts

-  The service will continue though the Thurs. of Finals

-  The semester has been good for ChatRef

-  Members will work to find more participants/subs for the Spring semester and beyond

II. Captivate Tutorials

-  An alternative is Camtasia Studio

-  Training will take place in a general working session Jan. 17th at WL

III. 11/8 Common Book Program

-  Online chat went well – 30 participants

-  Marketing with more advertising/instructor involvement?

-  Author talks?

-  Future events?

IV. TEC 105-Library Technologies and Copyright Literacy Update

-  This semester there were 2 face-to-face and 3 online sessions

-  Bootcamp – 2 face-to-face sessions in January

-  Revising the S5 presentation to match online content

-  Online version

-  Transfer to Blackboard

-  Increase activity

V. LibLine

-  End-of-semester survey

-  Google Analytics report

-  Posts-updating, new content

-  MySpace connection

VI.  Next Meeting

-  Thursday, January 17th

-  10-3 Eastside

-  Camtasia/Captivate –Palooza