2020/05/15 Minutes
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