2021/07/09 Minutes

Owned by Lewis Day
Jul 12, 2021

Susan: 

  • Performance Management conversations are almost complete.  
  • We are still awaiting guidance from library administration regarding goal setting and performance for 2022. 
  • The email for departmental planning has gone out. 
  • Managers should discuss flex time and scheduling wants/needs with their staff and requests should be submitted to Susan as soon as possible; we should be sure to always have managerial coverage on site 
  • Managers should think about their own and their staffs’ Reading Room coverage (desk and check-in stations) for the fall semester; if a staff member does not want to work on the desk they can work in the stacks, or volunteer for greeter duties (still being refined). 
  • Will send out reminder email regarding on-site norms. 

 

Dorothy: 

  • Ongoing work is going well. 
  • Dorothy, Kate, and Susan will be meeting to discuss on-site scanning issues and plans. 

 

Adrien: 

  • SPARC DIBAR will be speaking with Mitch and Dale in July regarding the new Houghton collection pages. 
  • Micah will be speaking with SPARC DIBAR about upcoming events. 
  • The ASpace Working Group will be hosting an open meeting on July 29th to discuss best practices for creating and merging subject and agent records. 
  • New priorities form for cataloging and preservation priorities will be going out shortly. 
  • ALA RUSA session on cataloging and subject headings went very well. 

 

Linda: 

  • Rare Book staff are preparing for adding on-site work for Linda, Andrea, and Christina beginning next week. 
  • Several staff attended ALA Annual meetings last week. 
  • Linda and Lewis are working on updated poetry documentation for the Rare Book Section 
  • Linda and Meg are working on implementing the BOUND code for bound with, in particular SAEF. 
  • Linda, Susan, Micah, and Ramon are working on space issues related to implementation of new classification norms; this group is also continuing to work on size code rationalization. 

 

Lewis: 

  • Lewis and Michael began a third day of on-site work. 
  • All online reference and storage updates (Accession number/incoming books, SharePoing invoices) for fiscal year 2022 have been made, with new files available for use immediately 
  • The new fiscal year has begun, and invoices are once again being paid.