2021/10/01

Owned by Lewis Day
Oct 08, 2021

Attending: Dorothy, Lewis (minutes), Adrien, Linda, Susan.

Susan 

  • On vacation soon 
  • Houghton staff event upcoming; staff should feel free to attend to their level of comfort. 
  • Tom is working with folks for the upcoming Arts/Special Collections meeting and future events. 
  • Work continues with Dorothy, Mary, and Kate regarding patron scanning. 
  • Working with Lily/Shalimar on JSTOR.  
  • There will be upcoming communication from Senior Managers regarding a library norm for out-of-office messaging. 
  • Work on staff development funding continues.

Dorothy 

  • A way is needed to coordinate priorities scheduling, because planning is Imaging’s hands. 
  • Minstrelsy Project: a process for adding new material as Matt continues to make purchases. 
  • Curatorial decisions need to be properly communicated. 
  • Dorothy has received the Alumni Award from the School of Informatics, Computing, and Engineering at Indiana University. 

Adrien 

  • Norms conversation: the draft was sent to Section Heads for comment. Adrien will post to the Wiki. 
  • We need to discuss the possibility of getting (for staff who want them) small whiteboards for silent communication of availability for interruption. 
  • Priorities-tracking projects: 2-3 priories per curatorial unit, with current acquisitions taking precedence. 
  • The Manuscripts Section is getting rid of the COVID Backlog.  
  • Working with Vicki to clear processing backlogs. 
  • Betts has completed her Minstrelsy work. 
  • A scrapbook collection obtained from WIidener. 
  • Joint statement on harmful language in Harvard materials: perhaps a project can be led by Jerome; her group has a meeting with him in October.

Linda 

  • Old accessions continue to be cataloged. 
  • Linda will revisit the correction forms next week with Jennifer and Adrien 
  • Movement on adding Enslaved persons (from the African Studies Thesaurus) terms to be added as local heading from an authorized thesaurus; wiki to be updated. 
  • MSWG is in favor of an event with Jerome.

Lewis 

  • Incoming collections receipts are rebounding. 
  • Supplies: end-processing, conservation, and office supplies are also increasing. 
  • All students (2: Digital Projects; 1: Manuscripts; 1-books end-processing) have been hired into PeopleSoft and begun work. 
  • New students have received an updated list of Houghton student staff norms, including PeopleSoft entry. Lewis will continue approving all time for students in TS. 
  • Two forms are in development: 
  • Supplies requests, and  
  • New student hire requests. 
  • DIWG/SPARC work continuing for an early December event conducted by Sofia Leung which will be Houghton-funded and SPARC-wide in attendance. There will be a cap of 60 attendees. Sofia is planning a preliminary conversation with BIPOC staff. 
  • Out the week of October 18-22.