2020/05/15 Minutes

Owned by Susan Pyzynski
Last updated: May 15, 2020 by Linda Isaac

Present: Susan Pyzynski, Adrien Hilton, Dorothy Berry, Lewis Day, Linda Isaac


General

  • Performance management will be pushed out for at least a couple of months, HR recognizes that staff are stressed enough without adding this on.  We agreed this was a great relief for us all.  
  • Susan has gotten a couple of computer equipment needs sent to her--please send any others ASAP so she can batch them.
  • Susan reminded everyone about taking the staff survey for strategic planning
  • We agreed that we would read the Cultural Assessment report carefully and discuss what we as managers can do within TS to improve. 


Dorothy

  • Working with Claire Demarco on looking at how to build out tools for teaching, Dorothy is looking at Scalr
  • Working with Kristen's Teaching and Learning group that is planning for remote learning


Lewis

  • Completed the Inclusive Manager's Toolkit
  • The section looked at the new Alma Metadata Editor and discussed it.
  • Working on documentation for acquisitions


Adrien

  • Wrapping up recommendations on that the new DACS principles will look like at Houghton
  • Adrien and Linda are working on the recommendations for D&I document for archival and book descriptions


Linda

  • Lots of database clean-up continues on: bound-withs and provenance/binding/copy-specific notes
  • Committee work hasn't stopped; ontology work is continuing