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UPDATE: OCLC report at TS Department meeting; Library Juice Academy LRM RDA toolkit course; SAA webinar article; Teams channel drop-ins, SNAC, HAD, JSTOR Forum drop-ins; series of cross-departmental conversations;
FOR SPRING: department-wide in-person coffee; series of cross-departmental conversations; initial conversation about Enslaved.org; SNAC-a-thon based on the names that came out of the Legacy of Slavery at Harvard; authority records for formerly enslaved, enslavers, documentation from Duke; think about ways to incorporate Harvard Library groups into TS Department, videos from the report on the Legacy of Slavery at Harvard; drop-ins on HAD and finding aids, other topics
Objective: Improve Department-wide communication through clear expectations and professional understandings
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UPDATE: Attempting hybrid meetings; established multiple Teams channels channels; updated norms for department, developed Houghton-wide form for onboarding check-in
Priority #7: Department will work to effectively hire, welcome, onboard, and train newly hired staff
UPDATE: Creative arts archivist (success but let’s hear from Max); multiple LHTs; special collections cataloger; soon special projects cataloger and service manager for archives and special collections systems
FOR SPRING:Review TS Norms for open space (should do this periodically); develop short form for assessing onboarding to the Department explore how to use meeting agendas